Since upgrading to EMC 10 I have not been able to reliably burn DVD's. This version takes a very long time to encode and such so it is only after 2-3 hours that you get the message, "Failed to start the image writing operation Error while Burning Image. 800004003 Error while Aborting".
Steps taken as suggested by the Roxio knowledge base and their own tech support:
1.) Defrag your disk. Perhaps because it need a lot of contiguous space? But the error is only after 100% of the work is done and it wants to burn the DVD. I did find out that TiVo files get very fragmented and they cannot be defraged. The only way is to copy them to another storage device, defrag, then copy them back. That appeared to work once.
2.) Delete temp files. Claim is that you might be out of temp space. I've never heard of a way to limit the size of temp space on Windows, but still I did. Start, Run, "%temp%" and then delete all that you can there.
3.) Go to Tools/Options and check that MyDVD is using software rendering, not hardware. I did that, but it keeps switching back mysteriously.
4.) Check your video drivers for updates. Go to Start/Run "dxdiag". You should see that your DirectX version is 9.0.c and check on the Display tab. If its not a pretty new one, go to the manufacture's web site and get a new one.
My opinion:
1.) The rendering and encoding and all that dealt with above are running fine.
2.) It was one of those stupid Windows update that broke this.
3.) Its really the DVD burner.
The burner is a _NEC DVG+RW ND-3450A using the MS drivers of 7/1/2001. I see others on this forum say they are having problems with this same burner and they have updated the firm ware. So far I have not found any "official" site offering updates for this burner. It make a bit nervous try just anything.
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Since upgrading to EMC 10 I have not been able to reliably burn DVD's. This version takes a very long time to encode and such so it is only after 2-3 hours that you get the message, "Failed to start the image writing operation Error while Burning Image. 800004003 Error while Aborting".
Steps taken as suggested by the Roxio knowledge base and their own tech support:
1.) Defrag your disk. Perhaps because it need a lot of contiguous space? But the error is only after 100% of the work is done and it wants to burn the DVD. I did find out that TiVo files get very fragmented and they cannot be defraged. The only way is to copy them to another storage device, defrag, then copy them back. That appeared to work once.
2.) Delete temp files. Claim is that you might be out of temp space. I've never heard of a way to limit the size of temp space on Windows, but still I did. Start, Run, "%temp%" and then delete all that you can there.
3.) Go to Tools/Options and check that MyDVD is using software rendering, not hardware. I did that, but it keeps switching back mysteriously.
4.) Check your video drivers for updates. Go to Start/Run "dxdiag". You should see that your DirectX version is 9.0.c and check on the Display tab. If its not a pretty new one, go to the manufacture's web site and get a new one.
My opinion:
1.) The rendering and encoding and all that dealt with above are running fine.
2.) It was one of those stupid Windows update that broke this.
3.) Its really the DVD burner.
The burner is a _NEC DVG+RW ND-3450A using the MS drivers of 7/1/2001. I see others on this forum say they are having problems with this same burner and they have updated the firm ware. So far I have not found any "official" site offering updates for this burner. It make a bit nervous try just anything.
Anyone have any fresh ideas?
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