Video Captioning Causes Major Video Distortion

So,
This is a good one. I have a number of videos in an
interactive program I'm doing. It's standalone, and the videos are
vertically oriented. They'll play back on an LCD screen flipped on
it's side and displaying 768x1366. I have it running in flash
vertically so that when I play it back on the kiosk, I rotate the
display 90 degrees in the display driver. I tried to program this
so it ran on it's side, but the transitions and other effects I was
doing were much choppier for some reason, so I decided to just go
with rotating the display. At any rate, it was all going well until
we realized that we needed captions on the screen. I did this in
AS3, so I loaded up some XML files, set the caption target to my
own text box, and when I went to run the program on the vertical
screens, now all the video looks like static and is distorted. I
removed my customer caption box, and when played in the default
box, it also looks crazy. When I have the display driver set to
standard, it looks fine. And, if I remove the caption component
from the videos, the whole thing plays fine. I can actually see the
videos start to play, and as soon as the captioning kicks in, they
go nutty, and the program stays that way. I should say that the
videos go crazy, but all the graphics in the program are distorted
too, so it's not like the video is the only thing.
I don't really know how to start troubleshooting, and I
imagine I am going to have to caption this stuff a different way,
but I was wondering if anyone had any insight into how the
captioning component works, and why it might cause this type of
issue. I realize this is a fairly specialized thing I am
describing, so there aren't a ton of people who would have
experience with it exactly, but I am not really even sure why the
component would cause this. Thanks folks.
- B

I have seen a few cases where the dvd player can't handle the bit rate coming off the disk. Can you try some other playback decks?

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