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[Terence1]

Anybody got any ideas why I cannot burn a dvd disk in My DVD 9 ?

Hardware:- Foxconn Winfast MB with AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual core, Nvidia HU196D graphics, 2 Gb Ram, 250 Gb Sata Drive, LG GSA 4163B Multi DVD recorder (On own IDE channel as Master).

Can read/write CD's, Play DVD's but cannot burn a DVD +R (Drive supports DVD -R, +R, -R RW & +R RW) using My DVD or Express DVD.

Any ideas?

Regards
Terry

[grandpabruce]

Anybody got any ideas why I cannot burn a dvd disk in My DVD 9 ?

Hardware:- Foxconn Winfast MB with AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual core, Nvidia HU196D graphics, 2 Gb Ram, 250 Gb Sata Drive, LG GSA 4163B Multi DVD recorder (On own IDE channel as Master).

Can read/write CD's, Play DVD's but cannot burn a DVD +R (Drive supports DVD -R, +R, -R RW & +R RW) using My DVD or Express DVD.

Any ideas?

Regards
Terry

Since you didn't say what you are burning, no.

[Terence1]

Anybody got any ideas why I cannot burn a dvd disk in My DVD 9 ?

Hardware:- Foxconn Winfast MB with AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual core, Nvidia HU196D graphics, 2 Gb Ram, 250 Gb Sata Drive, LG GSA 4163B Multi DVD recorder (On own IDE channel as Master).

Can read/write CD's, Play DVD's but cannot burn a DVD +R (Drive supports DVD -R, +R, -R RW & +R RW) using My DVD or Express DVD.

Any ideas?

Regards
Terry

I was trying to burn a DVD +R standard DVD recordable disk but when using My DVD or DVD Express it get's to the point of Rendering & just hangs (Program not responding). Project checks out OK and I can burn OK to a DVD + R Recordable using the Disk Copier. Previews are also OK.  

Terry

[Larry]

I was trying to burn a DVD +R standard DVD recordable disk but when using My DVD or DVD Express it get's to the point of Rendering & just hangs (Program not responding). Project checks out OK and I can burn OK to a DVD + R Recordable using the Disk Copier. Previews are also OK.  

Terry

By "hangs", do you mean the progress stays at 0%? If so, update the drivers for your video card.

[Terence1]

By "hangs", do you mean the progress stays at 0%? If so, update the drivers for your video card.

Cheers Larry - spot on, I'll do that and try again.  I thought it was really weird as using "Copy Disk" to generate a DVD worked OK.

Cheers

Terry

[Terence1]

For Larry,

Thankyou very much for the advice - it worked a treat. It all works perfectly fine now.

I am surprised though because the driver's for the video are quite new and bearing in mind the lead times for software development I suspect that specific video requirements are quite high but are not specified in Roxio's documentation which in my mind (as a software developer) is a bit of a shortfall.  Hey never mind, it's working - many thanks

Rgds

Terry

Cheers Larry - spot on, I'll do that and try again.  I thought it was really weird as using "Copy Disk" to generate a DVD worked OK.

Cheers

Terry

[Larry]

For Larry,

Thankyou very much for the advice - it worked a treat. It all works perfectly fine now.

I am surprised though because the driver's for the video are quite new and bearing in mind the lead times for software development I suspect that specific video requirements are quite high but are not specified in Roxio's documentation which in my mind (as a software developer) is a bit of a shortfall.  Hey never mind, it's working - many thanks

Rgds

Terry

Happy to hear you got working.

I don't think it's so much a matter of having the most recent driver (although that usually is good practice) as it is that for some reason the software doesn't configure to use the video driver properly. Basically a behind the scenes configuration of EMC with the video driver. So then when it goes to render, there's some kind of communication failure. I've seen it happen even with the latest drivers installed nefore EMC, and the way to fix it is to re-install the drivers so EMC re-evaluates the video card. That's my theory at least, so I'm sticking to it cuz like you said, "it's working" and that's all that counts Have fun burning.

[Terence1]

Happy to hear you got working.

I don't think it's so much a matter of having the most recent driver (although that usually is good practice) as it is that for some reason the software doesn't configure to use the video driver properly. Basically a behind the scenes configuration of EMC with the video driver. So then when it goes to render, there's some kind of communication failure. I've seen it happen even with the latest drivers installed nefore EMC, and the way to fix it is to re-install the drivers so EMC re-evaluates the video card. That's my theory at least, so I'm sticking to it cuz like you said, "it's working" and that's all that counts Have fun burning.

Dear Larry,
Once again - thanks for the advice.
Trouble is that I am one of the old school. Been programming since the 70's and recently retired so when it comes to Video, I am probably hopelessly out of date. My speciallity is communications, RTOS & databases (Engineering background you see).  Problem is that you cannot be current in everything so information like yours is invaluable.  I thought after I rebuilt my machine with all the latest Dog's Bo****ks etc everything would be plain sailing - how wrong I was!!  I really did not realize how complex the Video side of things really was. Ah well, at least I can burn video's that I have made of animated photo's with music (glorified slide shows) of Town Twinning Visits made to Germany & France so people without a computer (and a lot of members belonging to my local twinning organization don't have one) but has a DVD player can at least see the pictures in something other than basic Jpeg.

Chrs Larry

Best Regards

terry