DVD Architect

[John Rofrano]

Use a tool like GSpot to determine what the codec is that the AVI file uses. GSpot will also tell you if you have the proper codec installed. If not, download it from the manufacturer and all should be well again. BTW, this could not have happened simply by deleting files. You must have uninstalled something.

~jr

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[Colin Oddy]

Thank you again John.
I DID have a clean up of all the useless software Id installed in an attempt to convert a VOB file and Im guessing in that lot was a shared codec.

Thanks for being there John. I apprecite your valuable knowledge and time.

Kind regards

Colin

Colin

[John Rofrano]

You’re welcome.

~jr

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[Colin Oddy]

Hello again,
Ive been going quite fine lately with DVD Architect until recently.
Im trying to burn 4 titles on a DVD.
The disk is ‘Preparing’ OK but when I try to ‘Burn’ I hear the disk spinning but the burn stops at 66%. I have to cancel the operation as it sits on 66% and wont progress.

Ive used 8 DVD disks so far and its the same result each time.

Initially I thought it might be because the program material was longer in duration than the disk could hold (in the popup bar at bottom of screen I had a RED signal for “Disc Space Used: 4.7GB”.

I edit the program material to make is shorter in duration and now I see a YELLOW signal with “Disc Space Used: 3.9GB”.
I figure THIS should now be working – shouldnt it?

Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated.

regards

Colin

[John Rofrano]

You could try writing to an ISO Image File and then burn the ISO with some other program. That would rule out a problem with the burner and point to an incompatibility with DVD Architect and your burner.

~jr

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[Colin Oddy]

Hi again John
I have been burning Architect files with this burner for a while now.
Its just started being difficult with this particular burn.

cheers

Colin

[John Rofrano]

I have been burning Architect files with this burner for a while now. Its just started being difficult with this particular burn.

OK, so it could be something with this project then. Still, I think burning to ISO first might help (it’s worth a try).

~jr

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[Colin Oddy]

thank you John
ill give it ago and let you know how I go.

many thanks

Colin

[Colin Oddy]

Exasperated I gave up on Architect several months ago but tonight braved it again.
Unfortunately nothing has changed and the program pauses without completing its burn process.
Here isthe current situation:
Im trying to burn 5 short programs totalling 1.3gb to DVD.
The ‘prepare’ process completes ok and the ‘burn’ process commences and gets to “66%” and pauses.
Now its cancelling and taking an extraordinarily long time to clear.
I cant go back to describe in detail the process but I do recall the log saying that the video “would be compressed”. I wondered why it would do that when the content was only 1.3GB and would easily fit on a 4.7GB DVD. I wonder if that is a clue to the problem Im experiencing.
Any suggestions will be greatfully received.

Colin

[John Rofrano]

[Colin Oddy] “I cant go back to describe in detail the process but I do recall the log saying that the video “would be compressed”. I wondered why it would do that when the content was only 1.3GB and would easily fit on a 4.7GB DVD”

This has nothing to do with size. The video is being compressed because it doesn’t meet the DVD specification. You need to render with the DVD Architect templates in Vegas and don’t change them.

~jr

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