this is exactly what my computer is doing as well. I do VERY simple things with this program---putting videos and photos of family events on a DVD.....Not a challenge for such a program I wouldn't think. I am not tech savy AT ALL, so this is VERY frustrating for me. I have no idea what "setting the rendering to software" means and my computer system is less than a year old. I don't know much about it (a computer gaming friend built it for me w/what I needed to do video) I only know it has an abit KN9 motherboard and enough memory, but I'm not sure how much.........I am about to throw the whole thing out the window........my friend that built it is three hours away and the locally owned computer store in town prefers to sell Pinnacle (small community, very rural, no big chain stores except Walmart and Staples)
Anyone have any other suggestions? I am comforted to know someone else is getting the same black box and
"Error while encoding movie. An unrecoverable device error occurred" With a system less than a year old and not used very much, I wouldn't think my video cards would be going bad......I don't have the option of uninstalling and reinstalling on another system to try. and if it's going to be this difficult, I'm pitching it out in the snow like I said!
Hardware:
Dell XPS 710 with 4GB RAM and dual Nvidia 7900 GS 256MB cards
Background:
I built a DVD movie (MPEG4) file using Videowave and added it to a MyDVD project with a simple menu and background audio. When I go to burn the project it quickly shows a black box for the preview and then the preview disappears. The two progress bars run up to 100% in less than a second and I get the 80004005 error message. I tried setting the rendering to software but it still gives me the same error. I updated the drivers on both video cards (dated December 2007), as well as updating PX (not sure what that is, but somebody on Roxio Live Chat instructed me on how to do that).
I decided to uninstall the software from my XPS and install it on my old HP. After copying over the MPEG4 file and replicating the menu, the old HP computer was able to burn the project with no problems. Now I uninstall Media Suite 9 from the HP and put it back on the Dell. Repeated the process and still getting the 80004005 error. I disabled one of the video cards and it still generates the same error.
Any other ideas?