[Marek]

I never had much luck with Roxio products but I kept upgrading and ending up using Nero instead. This time I just upgraded my Roxio to rev 9 to use the advertised conversion functionality. I record TV shows on my Windows MCE2005 and would like to convert them to my portable player. I installed the upgrade and used a small drv-rm file to convert (only 20 MB in size, only few minutes recording). The conversion went to the end and it seems to be OK. It took quite a time. Then I tried to convert a full hour TV show and after 36 hours of converting and about 67% progres the program stop to respond. Then I used a mpg4 file and tried to convert it to the wmv9. It went for long, but it was again a short movie, and the process ended correctly, but the converted video had only white screen and correct sound. I do a lot of converting using Nero or DivX converters and never had such problems. I would assume that, lets say 1 hr movie, should take no more then 1 hr to convert. 36 hrs seems very bad and makes your product unusable. I'm using P4, 3.2GHz multimedia 17" HP Pavilion with plenty of RAM and HD space. Is there anything you could recommend to improve the conversion process? Are there any benchmarks for your product? What is your personal experience in converting videos using Roxio products? Are you satisfied?

BTW, I do not see any posts regarding the issue. It's hard to believe that nobody else has the problems I'm having.

Lastly, I tried to burn some of my DivX (portable) music videos onto the DVD and selected option with DivX menu. After the whole night of processing the Roxio did not even start burning yet! The program was still responsive and I was able to quit it properly. It took me less then 5 minutes to create the same DVD with Nero (same platform, same videos, only no menu). What gives?

Regards,

Marek

[poisongirl]

Marek, on Nov 7 2006, 09:58 AM, said:

BTW, I do not see any posts regarding the issue. It's hard to believe that nobody else has the problems I'm having.

Regards,

Marek

Hi Mark, I just downloaded the Suite and have not even installed it yet so I can't really give my opinions on the product. What I *can* do is point you in the right direction for your questions of the MyTV ToGo program. If you go back to the MAIN Roxio menu, scroll all the way down until you find the group heading "Other Applications" in which you will find the sub-categories of "Sonic Applications", "Roxio Labs", "MyTV ToGo", and "Legacy Products". Click on the "MyTV ToGo" and you will then find (hopefully) all the answers that you seek, which they have on that product...

Hope this helps some... Also, check out the Roxio Labs. It's a cool place where you can find some beta software that they are creating and testing. The have a program called "Kio" that is a shell program to use on Win XP so that you can use MCE plug-ins on your XP Home system (and in MCE/10 Foot Interface style which should work with any remote control as long as you have it installed on that computer). They support the Roxio MCE plug-ins that you can download for free, and while they haven't tested (or tested much) of the other non-Roxio plug-ins, they say that they should work... You can also leave feedback about what you would like to see Roxio do in the future/things to fix... They have a website (part of this one I think?), but those are the forums that you have the directions to.

[Marek]

poisongirl, on Nov 7 2006, 12:42 PM, said:

Hi Mark, I just downloaded the Suite and have not even installed it yet so I can't really give my opinions on the product. What I *can* do is point you in the right direction for your questions of the MyTV ToGo program. If you go back to the MAIN Roxio menu, scroll all the way down until you find the group heading "Other Applications" in which you will find the sub-categories of "Sonic Applications", "Roxio Labs", "MyTV ToGo", and "Legacy Products". Click on the "MyTV ToGo" and you will then find (hopefully) all the answers that you seek, which they have on that product...

Hope this helps some... Also, check out the Roxio Labs. It's a cool place where you can find some beta software that they are creating and testing. The have a program called "Kio" that is a shell program to use on Win XP so that you can use MCE plug-ins on your XP Home system (and in MCE/10 Foot Interface style which should work with any remote control as long as you have it installed on that computer). They support the Roxio MCE plug-ins that you can download for free, and while they haven't tested (or tested much) of the other non-Roxio plug-ins, they say that they should work... You can also leave feedback about what you would like to see Roxio do in the future/things to fix... They have a website (part of this one I think?), but those are the forums that you have the directions to.

Thanks PoisonGirl I will try your suggestions this evening. It is my experience that so many of the EMC9 "nice/new functions" will still use the core applications like the DiskCopier ( always was and I think still is very slow). I will also try the Rexio Labs to see what is there. Thanks again. I hope I will also get some answers from people who already used the EMC9 for video conversions.