Trouble making DVD's

[martinkaca]

I bought my laptop a year ago and it had MyDVD on it. I have used it before to make DVDs but now when I try to add and .avi file on to the disc, it gives me an error.

"Could not make a thumbnail. Make sure you have the appropriate decoder installed. -47010"

What can I do to fix this?

 

MyDVD - MyDVD LE

New Project > DVD-Video > Drag the file in and error.

[Beerman]

I bought my laptop a year ago and it had MyDVD on it. I have used it before to make DVDs but now when I try to add and .avi file on to the disc, it gives me an error.

"Could not make a thumbnail. Make sure you have the appropriate decoder installed. -47010"

What can I do to fix this?

 

MyDVD - MyDVD LE

New Project > DVD-Video > Drag the file in and error.

Exactly what type of avi file is this? A very helpful tool is Gspot which can tell you which codecs you need and what you have on your system to run the file.

I am not familiar with how MyDVD LE differs from the full version so that may also be a problem as well as if the file is copy protected which you can nothing about.

[martinkaca]

 

Does this help?

[Beerman]

Sure does. Tells me you have an xvid file and that you have the proper codecs installed and it should play for you in Windows Media Player or other installed players.....does it?

Again, not knowing the LE version, I don't know if your problem is LE related or some other problem. You have what you need to play the file so technically, if not a copy protected file (seems like you got it off the net and I've not seen a protected xvid yet) you should be able to import it into MyDVD.

You said you've made DVD's before fine, was it with these types of files?

[martinkaca]

I have watched it already. The file types that I used before were .mpg and .wmv files. I just can't figure out why it won't read my file.

[Beerman]

I have watched it already. The file types that I used before were .mpg and .wmv files. I just can't figure out why it won't read my file.

Again, the problem may just be the limitation of the LE software. Did it come with your system? If so, ask the company for information.

Also, try different xvid files and see if the problem may be with that particular file. If all the xvid files you try give you the same problem, you may just have your answer.

[jeanrosenfeld]

I see GSpot is using the DivX decoder, although 3 compatible codecs are installed, so presumably DivX has highest merit order of those three.

 

So it may be the problem that occurs with EMC 9 regarding an updating of DivX codecs, that replaces Roxio's DivXDec.ax (mixed case characters) with the divxdec.ax (all lower case) file of the Divx codecs in the system32 folder. I don't know whether that applies to MyDVD LE, but the symptoms are similar.

 

But worth checking to see this post:

 

http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?showtopic=8841

 

Don't know what the others are, but in GSpot, System menu, click list media types. In the window that opens, find XVID in the description column, right click on XVID, click list all filters accepting this format. In the window that opens, look in the Format column (for ease, click on the format column title to sort the entries), find instances of XVID that are in a blue row, look across to driver file for each (some entries may be listed twice, that does not matter).

For example, I have the following:

 

divxdec.ax

DivXDec.ax

xvid.ax

 

If you wish you can right click on a line, copy to clipboard then post here.

 

BTW the current version of GSpot is 2.70a; the above instructions are for that version. Not sure whether the older version you used has those options.

 

You can get the current version from

http://www.headbands.com/gspot/