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[AlwaysFrustrated]

myguggi, on 22 June 2010 - 01:26 PM, said:

I am sorry but I have real difficulty following your post. You talk about mailing files from the laptop to a desktop, then copying files from an external drive to somewhere, etc.
It's very confusing.

What files did you copy, what did you e-mail? Did you copy/e-mail all the project files? Do you have identical folder setups on both systems?
Has Videowave ever recognized any of you Xvid files? Have you tried converting the Xvid files to mpeh2 or DV avi files and using those?

Obviously his question wasn't moved to another forum posting because this has been happening across the board with most of Roxio's programs. I have EMC 9 and I'm having the same problem. No matter how I try to burn my avi files, which are mainly Divx or Xvid, to a dvd format, Roxio doesn't recognize the files anymore and just gives the annoying circle with a slash. This has only risen suddenly out of nowhere because I've always been able to burn my avi's before. Even old files which I have burned just a few months ago no longer work and are unrecognizable. But yet the files are in tact because they are work appropriately in all media players and I have even tried downloading and using DVDFlick and have been able to put my files onto dvd with that program. So the problem isn't with the files themselves. I'd be horrified to find out that either Roxio, or Microsoft, or whomever, sent out updates to try to block dvix/xvid avi files from being burned as dvd movies because they think its an answer to piracy. If that's true, then all of our Dvix camcorders have become obsolete thanks to the media giants. Hopefully someone out there knows what's going on and will have an answer for us. In the meantime, I'm going to try uninstalling then do a complete reinstall of my C++ since there have been a few error messages with that as well. Afterwards, I'll also try a complete reinstall of my Roxio. If anyone else has any better ideas, please let me know.

[myguggi]

AlwaysFrustrated, on 22 August 2010 - 10:54 AM, said:

Obviously his question wasn't moved to another forum posting because this has been happening across the board with most of Roxio's programs. I have EMC 9 and I'm having the same problem. No matter how I try to burn my avi files, which are mainly Divx or Xvid, to a dvd format, Roxio doesn't recognize the files anymore and just gives the annoying circle with a slash. This has only risen suddenly out of nowhere because I've always been able to burn my avi's before. Even old files which I have burned just a few months ago no longer work and are unrecognizable. But yet the files are in tact because they are work appropriately in all media players and I have even tried downloading and using DVDFlick and have been able to put my files onto dvd with that program. So the problem isn't with the files themselves. I'd be horrified to find out that either Roxio, or Microsoft, or whomever, sent out updates to try to block dvix/xvid avi files from being burned as dvd movies because they think its an answer to piracy. If that's true, then all of our Dvix camcorders have become obsolete thanks to the media giants. Hopefully someone out there knows what's going on and will have an answer for us. In the meantime, I'm going to try uninstalling then do a complete reinstall of my C++ since there have been a few error messages with that as well. Afterwards, I'll also try a complete reinstall of my Roxio. If anyone else has any better ideas, please let me know.

If it worked at one point and now doesn't then something has changed in your system. It's not because of someRoxio  "update" to EMC 9 since that product has been out of production for several years and there have been no updates.  Anyway it is illegal to burn downloaded Divx/Xvid movies; its piracy.

[Brendon]

With great respect, while it's illegal to burn pirated copyrighted movies in breach of the copyright, AVI is a very widely used container file and there are a huge number of AVI clips out there in the public domain which are quite legal to burn to DVD. They must be distinguished from the pirated stuff, and it's the legal clips that I am talking about.

"AlwaysFrustrated", your post has ended up here because it concerns EMC 9, not Creator 2009 where you posted it onto someone else's topic dealing with a different problem.

You have EMC 9, and you have suddenly run into a problem with DivX and XviD AVI files. It is most likely that operation of the CODEC used to encode/decode these files has been broken.

This will not have been done deliberately by any Roxio update, and the only Roxio programs which deliberately break it are the cut-down OEM software versions and Easy CD and DVD Burning.

If you haven't installed any of the above programs, have you installed or updated DivX on your system recently? If I remember correctly, Roxio places its DivX codec in one place in the system while the DivX bundle places and points to the codec in a different place - causing chaos.

If it's only DivX and XviD AVIs which are misbehaving, and not other lesser-known ones such as iv32 and iv50, mp42, mrle, cvid etc., then a broken codec is probably your issue. You can tell which codec a clip uses?