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[Johnny 5]

I have an issue with Videowave8/MyDVD.

I used to have a crappy Dell PC that I had installed Roxio and a Litescribe DVD Writer on.  It worked alright (it was way slow on rendering, but it got the job done). The specs were:

Dell Dimension 2400
Windows XP Professional SP2
P4 2.8GHz
512MB RAM
128MB Shared Video
40GB IDE HDD
HP DVD630i

Remember.  It ran good on this PC, even if it was a bit slow.

I just bought a new PC.  Specs are:

HP Media Center Pavilion a1380n (I think that those last numbers are correct)
Athalon 3800+ (more or less 2.2GHz) Dual Core x64 capable
Windows XP Media Center SP2
1GB RAM
250GB SATA HDD
120GB SATA HDD
HP DVD640i
ATI Radeon X1300 512MB (PCI-E)

I installed Roxio on the new PC, along with the HDD from the old one.  I ran VideoWave 8 and the videos in the timeline look real blocky.  I created an Mpeg of the video, and watched it on the PC.  It was fine, except at the beginning of each clip, it was fuzzy for about a second, then it cleared up.  It then got fuzzy again at the end of each clip (right before a transition).  Other than that, it ran smoothly.  I then put a menu to it, and burned it.  I put the disc in the DVD player, and it skips horribly.  It pauses when I have words coming onto the screen and during most transitions.  I tried the DVD on the computer as well.  It does the same thing.  I am using Litescribe DVD's.  I made 25 copies of the same exact video on the old computer using the same discs, without a problem.

Can anyone help me figure out why it is doing this?

[rimasl2]

xxpigxx@gmail.com, on Feb 3 2006, 10:17 AM, said:

I have an issue with Videowave8/MyDVD.

I used to have a crappy Dell PC that I had installed Roxio and a Litescribe DVD Writer on.  It worked alright (it was way slow on rendering, but it got the job done). The specs were:

Dell Dimension 2400
Windows XP Professional SP2
P4 2.8GHz
512MB RAM
128MB Shared Video
40GB IDE HDD
HP DVD630i

Remember.  It ran good on this PC, even if it was a bit slow.

I just bought a new PC.  Specs are:

HP Media Center Pavilion a1380n (I think that those last numbers are correct)
Athalon 3800+ (more or less 2.2GHz) Dual Core x64 capable
Windows XP Media Center SP2
1GB RAM
250GB SATA HDD
120GB SATA HDD
HP DVD640i
ATI Radeon X1300 512MB (PCI-E)

I installed Roxio on the new PC, along with the HDD from the old one.  I ran VideoWave 8 and the videos in the timeline look real blocky.  I created an Mpeg of the video, and watched it on the PC.  It was fine, except at the beginning of each clip, it was fuzzy for about a second, then it cleared up.  It then got fuzzy again at the end of each clip (right before a transition).  Other than that, it ran smoothly.  I then put a menu to it, and burned it.  I put the disc in the DVD player, and it skips horribly.  It pauses when I have words coming onto the screen and during most transitions.  I tried the DVD on the computer as well.  It does the same thing.  I am using Litescribe DVD's.  I made 25 copies of the same exact video on the old computer using the same discs, without a problem.

Can anyone help me figure out why it is doing this?

A few things that I found were:

1. You need to have a good DVD decoder engine. Nvidia's PureVideo Decoder works great for me. You can see what DVD decoder you have on your machine by installing and runnning a Microsoft utility called: "DecCheck.exe".

Here it is:
http://www.microsoft...&displaylang=en

2. The roxio hotfix called "dvrms_hotfix.exe" fixed my skipping problem when converting DVR-ms files from a Windows Media center Edition 2005 computer. You could try it to see if it helps...here it is:

http://tools.roxio.c...vrms_hotfix.exe

-- good luck

[Johnny 5]

rimasl2, on Feb 3 2006, 10:55 AM, said:

A few things that I found were:

1. You need to have a good DVD decoder engine. Nvidia's PureVideo Decoder works great for me. You can see what DVD decoder you have on your machine by installing and runnning a Microsoft utility called: "DecCheck.exe".

Here it is:
http://www.microsoft...&displaylang=en

2. The roxio hotfix called "dvrms_hotfix.exe" fixed my skipping problem when converting DVR-ms files from a Windows Media center Edition 2005 computer. You could try it to see if it helps...here it is:

http://tools.roxio.c...vrms_hotfix.exe

-- good luck

Thank you.  I will try it as soon as I get home.

you were having that probelm as well?

[rimasl2]

xxpigxx@gmail.com, on Feb 3 2006, 11:54 AM, said:

Thank you.  I will try it as soon as I get home.

you were having that probelm as well?

I had two or three codecs on my machine. The NVidia one seemed to work best.

I had audio/video synch problems trying to convert DVR-MS files from a Microsoft Media Center Edition 2005 PC to DVD using videoWave. The DVR-MS_hotfix.exe file fixed it. I don't know if this will help you or not.

-- rimasl