Yes, it sounds like what you describe. My DVD player is a Sony DVP-NS300. Is there anyway to get around this in DVDA and make the text look 'cleaner' after pushing the play button?

This happens on my DVDA created projects that I've burned. If I use a still menu the image is blocky. I know it's not the player because my still menus from DVD Movie Factory look fine. One other note is that when I made animated menu items it was clear until it hits the loop point then it is blocky until it starts the loop again. I can e-mail a capture to support if it will help.

One more thing I noticed about the text and image being blocky, is when I press the play button to start the video, the current menu screen goes from great quality, to poor quality, then to bad quality within 1 second. I actually see it change twice from the original menu.

My Sony DVD player does not exhibit this behavior on other DVDs I own, or other DVDs I've burned with Sonic DVDit! PE.

Ron

I just talked with Sonic Foundry complementry 60 day support and sent them a 1 frame capture of this problem. I'll let you know what I hear back.

-Troy

Thanks. I hope they find a fix for this.

Ron

Also seeing the same thing on my discs. Playback is on a Pioneer DV-343 which has the reputation of being DVD-R super friendly.

Commercial discs do this all the time on my APEX AD-600A, so it might just be how things work, at least on my poor APEX.
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Hmmm, haven't seen one commercial disc do this and I have 2 Apex AD-1500 units. However, they both have blocky menus from projects authored from DVDA. I author from Ulead DVD Movie Factory and no more blocky menu's. I've sent Nathan the *.IFO & *.VOB's for the projects from both the DVDA project and Ulead DMF project (without the longer *.VOB which contains the actual content. I hope you guys figure this out soon because I really want to use DVDA to create my DVD's but I just can't because I don't want to look at blocky menu's for the rest of the Apex's life.

Also, I've mentioned to Nathan that I get short 'speed-up' in various areas in the video on projects that DVDA made on both Apex's and in the same place, I can rewind, press play and it is sped up in the exact same place so I know it's on the disc. However, if I use the same mpeg file and author with Ulead DMF it is just fine, no speed ups at all. So to me that rules out the mpeg itself and leaves either the authoring from DVDA or the burn. I tried using Nero to burn a DVDA prepared VIDEO_TS folder and Nero complains about the files not being created with 2K boundaries. I can capture an example of this as I've offered Nathan but just haven't heard back from him. I guess you guys are real busy. Does DVDA burn with burn proof turned on? I'm wondering because both Nero and Ulead have options to use Burn-Proof and I always keep it on but there's no option in DVDA, could that cause the speed up? (In case it matters I'm using a pioneer A03).

I have the same problem. It appears on my Toshiba & APEX players.
The still menus look fine on my Pioneer PRV-9000?
I also use Spruce Virtuoso. It creates perfect still menus.
DVDA is fielding the still frame some how.
I really would like to see a fix for this.

I'm having the same "speed up" problem too. I've tried to differenct DVD+RW discs and the problem shows up at the same point of the video. I see this problem when I view the discs on an Apex or Mintek DVD player. Then, if I used DVDit! to burn the DVD on either disc with the same MPEG2 file from V4, both players play fine.

Ron

Whew! I'm happy I'm not the only one experiencing this!