[AAR.oner]

could be the discs, could be dirty heads, could be a combination of a few things...but i'd be willing to bet its Nero...no offense to you bro, but Nero is awful when it comes to capture, and even worse when it comes to compressing the raw avi to mpeg2

ya might wanna look into getting a better program and see if that doesn't help...and yeah, you should also clean those heads, *especially* if you use different brands of miniDV tapes [if you do, i'd recommend stopping immediately -- pick one brand, be it Sony or JVC or whatever, and stick with it exclusively]