Re: Where is option to save directly to DVD?

Crashing Problem:

I am trying to 'Finish Movie' and save to either High Quality PAL or DV-AVI
(PAL). The movie is 2 hours long. After the progress bar gets between 5% -
11%, I get the sorry' Experienced a problem - have to close message',
followed also sometime by the Dr Watson (I guess MS error reporter) also
crashing with same message.

Machine has 3 IDE internal hard drives. I have tried saving the final movie
to same drive as project/raw movie files, drive where XP is located and the
third drive. All drives have loads of free space (60GB+ each).

I tried following papajohn's plan by disabling all codec under
'Tools>Options' in MM and changing the hardware acceleration pointer to
middle. Still same crash... ;-( I have also uninstalled/rolled back to IE6

For info PC is WIN XP MCE, Semprom 3400+ with 1GB RAM. I used MM before on
exactly the same PC but with non-MCE XP Pro for bigger movies and worked fine.


"Graham Hughes" wrote:

You don't seem to have fully explained the crashing problem, do you want to
in case we can add anything else for you to try?

--

Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


"Roger Cook UK" <RogerCookUK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks, I tried splitting the movie in half last night (so about 1
hour) -
partly to try the second half only - to see if it was an error in the
project
sorce files. It also failed.

Previously I used Ulead software to get about 2 hours on one DVD, it
wasn't
exactly HD, but was watchable...though I agree 1 hour gave much better
quality.

I'm going to try to solve the crashing problem, by disabling codecs and
throttling back the hardware acceleration - as suggested by papajohn. If
this
works, I wont need to bother with the 'write DVD' option from WMM.

I did have a problem some time ago when trying to load MS Flightsimulator,
then the solution (on the same PC) was to hold back the performance a bit
to
give the machine more time to write to the hard disc. I guess it could be
the
same problem here, because the crashing seams to occur when the hard disc
writing is at full speed.


"Graham Hughes" wrote:

The sonic app has a limit of one hour for making dvds, if I remembe
correctly, so you may be wasting your time trying to get it to work for a
2
hour movie.

High quality in any dvd authring app will not allow you to save 2 hours
to
disc. A good quality encoder will get nearly an hour and a half on a
disc,
cheaper encoders may do it, but the quality is poor.

--

Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


"Roger Cook UK" <RogerCookUK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yeah,

Sonic plug-ins appear to be installed on hard drive, but not being
picked
up
in WMM. I guess I could try to edit the registry manually as suggested
by
the
topic:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa468475.aspx

My real problem is that when I am trying to save a 2 hour video to high
quality format, so that I can use a different bit of software to make
the
DVD
conversion, I keep getting the 'sorry experienced a problem - have to
close
message' about 5 - 10 minutes in. This never happened when I was using
XP
Pro
(non-MCE) on the same PC with same hardware.

So instead of having to completely re-edit the film using a different
piece
of software, I thought of trying to get the direct DVD writting
function
to
work.


"PapaJohn" wrote:

from what I see, it's not a setting... it's a third party plug-in like
one
from Sonic.
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website references are to www.papajohn.org

PapaJohn


"Roger Cook UK" <RogerCookUK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
news:EE365027-F6A9-4DE9-84D2-0F954A68D026@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I made the computer, so I guess I need to find the setting somewhere.

"PapaJohn" wrote:

You have the same version as I do... and I'm using a MCE edition on
XP...
and I have the option to burn a DVD from Movie Maker.

The software to add the option is added by the computer maker, not
by
XP.
--
website references are to www.papajohn.org

PapaJohn


"Roger Cook UK" <RogerCookUK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
news:061E7EA3-0838-4166-A605-267448A63CEC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi, I have Windows XP MCE Edition - fully legal and registered
and
up
to
date.

But my Windows Movie Maker reports itself as version 2.1.4026. Is
this
why
I
cannot find the burn directly to DVD option ? How can I get the
correct
version of WMM so I can burn directly to DVD.

I understand this should be a standard feature of WMM on MCE?












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