[jimbabka]

I had Roxio DVD Creator from Roxio 6, and the final quality of the DVD (as played on my DVD player) was good. Then I installed EMC 8. Everything looks fine until I burn the DVD and play it on my standalone DVD player. Now it looks like every other line is out of sync. When the picture is relatively still, straight lines have a very pronounced sawtooth pattern. Horizontal lines are even worse - they appear twice in the picture (for example, a light switch plate looks like it ends with a line on the top, then there's one line of the wall above the plate, and then a line above that that is the top of the plate again).

This is truly horrible - I'm ready to pitch this and go back to Roxio 6. I have tried this multiple times - encoding from scratch each time - and I saw the problem every time. Any ideas how to fix this?

Jim Babka.

[ggrussell]

Check your MyDVD project settings. Is it set to Progressive or Interlaced? For regular TV, it should be interlaced (DVD player connected via RF cable or the yellow composite RCA). If you have the DVD player connected to your TV using progessive outputs (RGB cable), then you can change the MyDVD project to progessive output.

This post has been edited by ggrussell: 07 August 2006 - 03:32 PM

[jimbabka]

ggrussell, on Aug 7 2006, 03:31 PM, said:

Check your MyDVD project settings. Is it set to Progressive or Interlaced? For regular TV, it should be interlaced (DVD player connected via RF cable or the yellow composite RCA). If you have the DVD player connected to your TV using progessive outputs (RGB cable), then you can change the MyDVD project to progessive output.

Thanks for the quick reply - it is set to Interlaced, so I'll change it and try again. However, any idea why I should have to change this when I didn't have to do anything before (with Roxio 6)? More importantly, if I make it progressive, then will the DVD look bad on other DVD players that are using interlaced?

[ggrussell]

Should look fine on any player. The DVD player should automatically interlace it. In fact, some users have posted that outputting as progessive actually looks better. I've never tried it. Interlaced works perfectly fine for me.

This post has been edited by ggrussell: 07 August 2006 - 03:58 PM