I've been having problems burning DVDs that actually look good from TiVo source material. Particularly with 720p recordings. Let's say I want to burn an episode of 24 to DVD. I will transfer it, and it will play back fine on my computer. If I try to burn it to a DVD, the newly encoded video comes out very choppy, as if it is skipping frames quite frequently. There seems to be no distortion to the audio, just video. With that same 720p recording, I can export it to my iPod with absolutely no problems. The video will play back quite fluid. Has any one else experienced anything similar. To rule out it being bad media, I have been testing with just making disc images, and the same problem is occurring. I've tried both the default and a number of manual encode configurations. Otherwise, the physical video quality is acceptable, it just is hard to watch with so many frames being dropped. Has anyone else had this problem?

Yes, I'm having this problem as well. There's a series on TBN I'm trying to put on DVD (I think it's only a 420 resolution). The DVD player recognizes and plays the disc. The audio is fine and the picture quality of an individual frame is fine. But the playback is choppy - like you said - as though it's missing frames. What version of software are you using? I'm using DigitalMedia Deluxe v7 (MyDVD 6.2). I was wondering whether an upgrade would fix the problem but if you're using a newer version that's obviously not the issue.