[Mountain Jeff]

When opening My DVD, Videowave or others in "VIDEO" program hangs. Through about August 10th I was successfully making slideshows of weddings on MY DVD. My customers loved them!!!

Suddenly MY DVD and VIDEO WAVE hang. It started in early August. This was NOT related to any kind of Windows patch, I have not updated anything since getting EMC to work back in June. I have a brand new machine, duo core, 2 gig ram, rock'in card, it's not the machine. I run XP with sp2. Norton is my ainti virus.
4 times I have uninstalled, and reinstalled EMC. I turn off Norton so I know it's not a Norton issue.

I got a patch from Roxio in May that got me going in June, this no longers works.

Classic Burner and that stuff works fine, so it's not the suite.

I try to open My DVD in every way I can.

Interestingly, If I open My DVD and come back 90 minutes later, it will be open. If I click on "create slide show" and wait another 90 minues the slideshow screen will open. HOwever, if I try to actually add any media, then that's game over.

So the program is there, it's just molasis in January and it's brittle as can be.

I'd like to know two things:

1) I'd like to make this work

2) It has been suggested in messages that I'm nutz for trying to put out a professional product with EMC. Can anyone recommend a product that will allow me to easily create slideshows with music, put them on a menu and then cut a DVD that plays in a regular DVD player. If I have to buy something else I will.

[Mountain Jeff]

Buehler Buehler???

Any ideas? either on what is wrong or a substitute software??

[grandpabruce]

Buehler Buehler???

Any ideas? either on what is wrong or a substitute software??

Suddenly MY DVD and VIDEO WAVE hang. It started in early August.

I guess something went awry, and that is what you need to find. That part is never easy. It could be something as simple as doing a defrag of your hard drive and doing a spyware/malware check.

[Mountain Jeff]

I have defraged, I've submitted a ticket to Roxio (with zero response, no surprize). I've re-installed and run the patch they gave me a few months ago. I've told Norton to ignore all the Roxio files.

Still it does not work.

Has anyone looked at other software that I can make slideshow DVDs?? I either have to get this work done or start sending people thier money back.

Suddenly MY DVD and VIDEO WAVE hang. It started in early August.

I guess something went awry, and that is what you need to find. That part is never easy. It could be something as simple as doing a defrag of your hard drive and doing a spyware/malware check.

[gi7omy]

If it worked and then stopped, all you can do is to check for anything that may have been installed round the time it stopped. This could be anything at all, from MS updates, spyware to a new app but something MADE it stop and, not sitting at your desk looking at your computer, there's no way for any of us to be able to say just what it was

[Mountain Jeff]

True, I should have been more clear. I approve all updates from Windows and Norton and everything else. There was nothing new, that I approved. I'm feeling incredilous that I'm the only one with the problem so there is clearly something updated that is causeing it. Frankly, I guess I don't know how to look for something that was updated that I didn't approve.

So if I find that for example, I updated my I-Tunes or something like that, and I guess that might be the problem, what would I do?

If it worked and then stopped, all you can do is to check for anything that may have been installed round the time it stopped. This could be anything at all, from MS updates, spyware to a new app but something MADE it stop and, not sitting at your desk looking at your computer, there's no way for any of us to be able to say just what it was

[gi7omy]

You'd really need to find out what updated round the time EMC stopped working. I'm afraid I can't be more specific but you are going to have to rely on trial and eror to pin down the clash