gothicpoet's Journal: DVD burning...

My technological foray of the week - a DVD burner. Now if I can just perfect the process of moving files from my ReplayTV to my server, into video editing software and onto DVDs.

Nothing in life is ever simple. Just when I thought I had this nailed with a combination of DVArchive, the Moonlight Decoder, and the Pinnacle Expression software that came with my DVD burner... I've got some funky video artifacts in the output.

Now if it were just blockiness or something that would be understandable but sometimes certain parts of the video will go all grey. It only happens just periodically enough to be annoying.

I'm guessing it's a compression artifact -- probably the Pinnacle software in conjunction with the Moonlight MPEG decoder that I need to open the ReplayTV's MPEG2 files. (They're slightly idiosyncratic.)

Hopefully I'll solve it.