[Nick-D]

I am having a terrible time with burning a slideshow to DVD. This previously worked great with my home built PC and EMC 7. Now using a Dell XPS 400 with XP SP2 MCE. 1 GB RAM ATI Radeon x300 SE with 128MB of RAM.

I build the slideshow just fine in Videowave, save the project and then transfer to MYDVD. I tried both MYDVD and express. The DVD encodes, but the preview encoding box is black. No picture. No errors are encountered while encoding. Disk burns and I get a menu and sound, but as soon as I go to play slides, no picture. I have tried reducing quality, bit-rate, changed DVD's. I have updated the Dell BIOS also. No luck. I tried burning to an image then to disk. No luck.

The slideshow previews perfectly in Videowave as well as MYDVD.

I have to tell you that what used to take me 20 minutes on a home built PC, has now taken over 8 hours and all I have is a stack of coasters. To make matters worse, I moved the slides to a friends MacBook and we burned the #$^@ thing in 15 min with no issues at all.

Needless to say, I am pissed.

Any ideas before I go down to the Apple store? I have about had it with XP and all these apps.

Nick

[sknis]

Nick-D, on Sep 17 2006, 07:19 PM, said:

I am having a terrible time with burning a slideshow to DVD. This previously worked great with my home built PC and EMC 7. Now using a Dell XPS 400 with XP SP2 MCE. 1 GB RAM ATI Radeon x300 SE with 128MB of RAM.

I build the slideshow just fine in Videowave, save the project and then transfer to MYDVD. I tried both MYDVD and express. The DVD encodes, but the preview encoding box is black. No picture. No errors are encountered while encoding. Disk burns and I get a menu and sound, but as soon as I go to play slides, no picture. I have tried reducing quality, bit-rate, changed DVD's. I have updated the Dell BIOS also. No luck. I tried burning to an image then to disk. No luck.

The slideshow previews perfectly in Videowave as well as MYDVD.

I have to tell you that what used to take me 20 minutes on a home built PC, has now taken over 8 hours and all I have is a stack of coasters. To make matters worse, I moved the slides to a friends MacBook and we burned the #$^@ thing in 15 min with no issues at all.

Needless to say, I am pissed.

Any ideas before I go down to the Apple store? I have about had it with XP and all these apps.

Nick

If you have been reading these posts, you know that, in most cases, rendering is done via the video card. ATI has relatively new drivers for your card here. Do you have those newer drivers? Do you have the latest DirectX 9c from the Microsoft web site?