Encoding problems

[Jostein]

I have created a DVD project in MyDVD. When I preview it, all works fine, but when I try to burn it to a file or a disc I get problems. When I press "Burn disc" in MyDVD, a new window opens and I see the "encoding preview" where the first film in the project shows in slow motion. After 2% of the encoding is finished, the movie disappears and the encoding speeds up. When the encoding has reached 20%, the picture comes back, but the encoding stops. I can wait for several hours, but nothing happens. I may press cancel and return to the project. If I don't press cancel and let the encoding run overnight, the program seems to crash. Do anyone have a solution to this frustrating problem???

[sknis]

I have created a DVD project in MyDVD. When I preview it, all works fine, but when I try to burn it to a file or a disc I get problems. When I press "Burn disc" in MyDVD, a new window opens and I see the "encoding preview" where the first film in the project shows in slow motion. After 2% of the encoding is finished, the movie disappears and the encoding speeds up. When the encoding has reached 20%, the picture comes back, but the encoding stops. I can wait for several hours, but nothing happens. I may press cancel and return to the project. If I don't press cancel and let the encoding run overnight, the program seems to crash. Do anyone have a solution to this frustrating problem???

 

The gray screen you see when the preview disappears means that that part of the project is already in mpg2 compliant format and there is no need to encode.

 

My guess is that when you reach the 20%, there is something that the program doesn't like. It could be a transition, music file, effect or a "bad" video section. Look back in the project to find what is happening about that time. You should be able to fix it. In the future, to help trouble shooting of issues like this, create your project in VideoWave. You can output it to a mpg2 for DVD project. It is much easier to locate an issue when that encoding hangs.

[Jostein]

The gray screen you see when the preview disappears means that that part of the project is already in mpg2 compliant format and there is no need to encode.

 

My guess is that when you reach the 20%, there is something that the program doesn't like. It could be a transition, music file, effect or a "bad" video section. Look back in the project to find what is happening about that time. You should be able to fix it. In the future, to help trouble shooting of issues like this, create your project in VideoWave. You can output it to a mpg2 for DVD project. It is much easier to locate an issue when that encoding hangs.

Thank you very much! When i looked closer at the original video clips, there was some small errors in it. When removing these errors by clipping, the film encoded without any problems.

[Jostein]

Thank you very much! When i looked closer at the original video clips, there was some small errors in it. When removing these errors by clipping, the film encoded without any problems.

Actually I was too optimistic. The solution above only worked for a few movies. It seems like MyDVD is extremely sensitive to small errors in the movies that it encodes. I therefore tried another solution that worked perfectly: I captured and edited the movie in Windows Movie Maker. This was much faster, and I could ignore the small errors in the original movie. I added the wanted transitions and stored the movie. I then went to MyDVD and imported the movie, added text effects and music and burned the movie to a DVD. I experienced no encoding problems! It is rather disappointing, though, that Videowave and MyDVD do not communicate good enough...