[TerryB]

I'll try to be brief. I was having problems compressing before burning a movie ( would stop before burn). If I removed transitions, it would burn fine.
So, I decided to unistall/reinstall. When restarting after uninstall, I got blue screen of death. After repairing XP, I keep getting an install popup which says something to the effect that it cannot find the EMC 8 deluxe suite.msi in the temp folder.
When checking add/remove, creator and content are still there. Trying to repair/unistall brings up this dialog box:
"the installation source for this product is not avail. Verify that the source exists and that you can access it"
I have the downloaded product but is an exe file so I can't search for it.

As a side note: since repaire, I'm also having trouble reinstalling netframework ("procedure entry point for getrequestedruntimeversion in DLL library mscoree.dll" AND 'framework\v2.0.50727\mscorwks.dll could not be loaded"

Thanks, Terry

[Jim_Hardin]

You will need to give the Clean Install a try – Here

[TerryB]

You will need to give the Clean Install a try – Here

OK, I got Windows repaired and now I'm up and running again. I got EMC uninstalled, per your instructions. THANKS. Now that I have it reinstalled, I'm experiencing the same problems. When I finish editing my video and menu choice, I then proceed to burn my movie. During the encoding process, it will stop somewhere between 80-90% while encoding the movie. If I delete the transitions, the movie will encode and burn just fine. I had a similar problem, last night, while saving a movie with Windows Movie Maker. Could this be a CODEC problem? I have all updates, SP's and drivers installed.

Terry

[Jim_Hardin]

Sounds like you are using Hardware rendering and your video card is not up to the task.

In MyDVD, Tools – Options – Render, try setting it to Software and see what happens.

[TerryB]

Sounds like you are using Hardware rendering and your video card is not up to the task.

In MyDVD, Tools – Options – Render, try setting it to Software and see what happens.

BINGO...you da Man! Worked great.

Here's what I'm using:

Dell XPS400
XP Media SP3
1 Terrabyte HD
4 Gig Memory
GForce 7900 GS

BTW, is it worth it to upgrade to the newest version? I'm also considering Sony's Vegas and Adobe's Premir Elements.

[grandpabruce]

BINGO...you da Man! Worked great.

Here's what I'm using:

Dell XPS400
XP Media SP3
1 Terrabyte HD
4 Gig Memory
GForce 7900 GS

BTW, is it worth it to upgrade to the newest version? I'm also considering Sony's Vegas and Adobe's Premir Elements.

Actually, your video card is fine. It's the NVidia drivers that, for some reason, Roxio EMC 8 and EMC 9 don't like. I had the 7900 GT in my computer, and decided to pull it out and put in an ATI video card. No problems, running in Hardware mode, since then.

On a side note, EMC 8 has the poorest encoding of any of the Roxio versions, in the past 5 years. EMC 9, 10, and Creator 2009 is much better. Your machine should run ok with Creator 2009.

[TerryB]

Actually, your video card is fine. It's the NVidia drivers that, for some reason, Roxio EMC 8 and EMC 9 don't like. I had the 7900 GT in my computer, and decided to pull it out and put in an ATI video card. No problems, running in Hardware mode, since then.

On a side note, EMC 8 has the poorest encoding of any of the Roxio versions, in the past 5 years. EMC 9, 10, and Creator 2009 is much better. Your machine should run ok with Creator 2009.

Thanks for the info. I'll give it serious consideration....