DVD woes

[Helevitia]

I recently purchased a SATA DVD Burner. As some of you know, I recently got back from Hawaii and wanted to burn a slideshow to DVD and send a few copies out. Well, I have tried 3 programs and all 3 have problems during the burning phase.

3 programs are: Cyberlink EZProducer, Microsoft MovieMaker, and Ulead PictureShow.

Cyberlink tells me their is a problem after it gets everythign in order and right as it is going to start to burn, it complains of a problem and posts possible solutions.

MovieMaker hangs

Ulead PS: When I select the DVD burner as the destination drive, it hangs.


Specs are in sig.

OS: WinXP SP2, all updates.
Latest BIOS for my mobo
Latest Firmware for my DVD burner
Latest Hyperion drivers
Running Cat4.10's.

I am not overclocking.

I have tried to kill eveyrthing off that is running in the background.

If anyone can suggest some ideas, I would be grateful

Thanks,
Dave

[Wombat]

Try Nero? At least for its compatability tests.

[Helevitia]

I've burned DVD's before with Nero and Cyberlink's PowerDirector. And I burned a small DVD last night just to make sure it works, so it definitely works in some situations.

[rylan]

What burner did you get? I've been hearing about some problems with SATA burners not working correctly or getting stuck in pio mode with various sata controlers and chipsets.

[Helevitia]

Plextor 712SA

[Helevitia]

btw, I can't see where I can change dma/pio mode? It used to be under device manager. Where'd it go? BIOS setting?

[K6-III]

As I recall, that burner has issues, unless you run it on Intel SATA...

[Helevitia]

hmmm...you got a link to the problems?

BTW, I'm gonna call Plextor tomorrow and see what they say since I am still on vacation

[Maggi]

Yo Dave,

first off, check out if your firmware is v1.05

http://www.plextor.com/english/support/downloads/firm_712.htm

and if your mainboard is officially supported, cos this list

http://www.plextor.com/english/support/media_712SA.htm

doesn't seem to have an entry for your A8V ...

secondly, did the authored file structure work in a software player on your PC ?

lastly, I wholeheartedly recommend to use DVD Lab for authoring

http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/

they offer full functional evaluation version of their non-pro and pro releases.

[Helevitia]

Hi Maggi

Thanks for the help. Yes, I have firware 1.05.

I just got off the phone with Plextor. He had me install EZ CDcreator(that comes with the drive) and use the DVD builder software and it worked like a champ Go figure. So even though it didn't work with 5 other programs it works with their software. That sucks because now i am back to the start again.

I checked out DVD lab pro and it is very nice. I ran into two limitations. You can't import MP3 audio files and there is a 99 picture limit per chapter. I haven't tried to burn with it yet. I'll try later when I am not so burnt out on trying to fix this problem I could just use DVD Builder but it is so simple, it doesn't have the feature set I want. Thanks everyone!