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[Lee Hopkins]

I had struggled for some time with creating my first DVD. It was actually 5 movies on one DVD. Each movie was created with VideoWave 9 and contained a mixture of photos, videos AVI and QuickTime, background music and random transitions. When I got near the end of the project I had one movie that for some reason always crashed at 99% complete. This was true if I burned to DVD or a folder set. I was writing to MPEG2 file format from VideoWave and then using MyDVD to create the final DVD.

After experimenting with outputting to a variety of file types I finally found that writing to the Divx file format from Videowave produced a product that did not crash MyDVD and did not seem to degrade the quality of the final product. Perhaps this approach will help others.

I also followed the advice of malatekid and found directions on how to create a data area on my DVD so PC users can have access to the photos I used for the movie. http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?...pic=10977&h.

Lastly, I had great success adding a custom .ico file and an autorun.inf that launches a simple webpage when the DVD is inserted into a PC.

An autorun.inf as simple as this:

[autorun]
shellexecute=welcome.htm
icon=myicon.ico

Will display the welcome.htm webpage when you insert a DVD into a PC.  It also uses the icon file to display your own custom icon when the user goes to my computer.

[ogdens]

I had struggled for some time with creating my first DVD. It was actually 5 movies on one DVD. Each movie was created with VideoWave 9 and contained a mixture of photos, videos AVI and QuickTime, background music and random transitions. When I got near the end of the project I had one movie that for some reason always crashed at 99% complete. This was true if I burned to DVD or a folder set. I was writing to MPEG2 file format from VideoWave and then using MyDVD to create the final DVD.

After experimenting with outputting to a variety of file types I finally found that writing to the Divx file format from Videowave produced a product that did not crash MyDVD and did not seem to degrade the quality of the final product. Perhaps this approach will help others.

I also followed the advice of malatekid and found directions on how to create a data area on my DVD so PC users can have access to the photos I used for the movie. http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?...pic=10977&h.

Lastly, I had great success adding a custom .ico file and an autorun.inf that launches a simple webpage when the DVD is inserted into a PC.

An autorun.inf as simple as this:

[autorun]
shellexecute=welcome.htm
icon=myicon.ico

Will display the welcome.htm webpage when you insert a DVD into a PC. It also uses the icon file to display your own custom icon when the user goes to my computer.

The link you provided just takes you to the main Roxio Community home page.

[Lee Hopkins]

The link you provided just takes you to the main Roxio Community home page.

try this: http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?...pic=10977&h