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DVD Architect 4.5 – At my wit’s end!
I have been trying to prepare a dual layer DVD, but just as it’s finished rendering the video, it throws up ‘an unexpected error has occured’, and bombs out.
I thought this was because my laptop kept on going into standby mode during the render, as it was running at 100% CPU for ages, but I fixed that by setting the program priority to low, and removing CPU0 from the processor affinity.
However, I’m still getting the same error! It can prepare single layer DVDs without a problem, but just can’t handle dual-layer. My laptop is fairly powerful, so I don’t think that’s the problem. I am running Vista, though…
I’m about at the point of using something else, unless someone knows how to fix this. The video files are in WMV format, if that makes any difference?
Can anyone recommend a different program?
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Actually, the error was ‘a memory exception has occurred’.
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You should be ingesting MPG2 files not wmv. You are making DVDA convert them to MPG2. You should render to MPG2 from Vegas and take those files into DVDA.
Harold
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Well that’s all well and good, but I have 20-odd files that took me ages to render using Vegas. Not really willing to re-render them again, and DVD Architect obviously supports WMV, or it wouldn’t allow me to import them.
Besides, when I was testing it out on a single-layer DVD, it worked without any problems.
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Jayson, you’re not understanding Harold’s point. DVD’s can only contain MPEG-2 files. You are having a problem getting DVD Architect to re-render your WMV files to MPEG-2. If you do the re-rendering, you eliminate your problem because DVD Architect will not have to render them. (problem solved)
It doesn’t matter who re-renders them, WMV files cannot be placed on a DVD. They must be re-rendered to MPEG-2.
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Hi John,
I got Harold’s point, but I was just saying that I was able to create a single-layer DVD using WMV files as the source. I was querying why I had to re-render them to MPEG2 when I could get it working, (albeit in a limited fashion) using WMV files.
Apologies to all if I sounded snappy, but this has been REALLY frustrating me! Oh well, back to Vegas video then…
Jayson.
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I assume that the videos for the single layer disc were shorter and perhaps the problem only happens on very large clips. This is why feeding DVD Architect MPEG2 files is always the best approach. It just eliminates the whole rendering issue.
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I would strongly recommend looking into an application called “ImgBurn” (www.imgburn.com).
I also had a history of burning single layer DVDs without a problem. However, when I completed the burning of dual layer disks using DVDA, they would hang in every single player I subsequently placed them in (they literally would spin in a “loading” mode forever).
The solution was to build out the DVD in Architect (as always), but use ImgBurn to actually burn the content. It works perfectly…all you you have to do is target the VIDEO_TS file that Architect creates for you as your source material. It even lets you preview, then select, where your layer break will occur.
Morever, ImgBurn is free, and comes with extremely easy to understand tutorials. I cannot say enough good things about this program–it really saved my bacon.
Carl
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Never mind.
Thanks.
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