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I’m having trouble burning video DVDs. What can I do?

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Published on 24 January 2007

First, check your DVD burner is working correctly by opening Device Manager (click Start > Control Panel, select System and Maintenance and click Device Manager). If it is, check the video files themselves are working correctly by playing them in Windows Media Player. Finally, when burning your DVD, click Options on the “Add pictures to the video and DVD page” in Windows DVD Maker and choose Medium or Slow in the “DVD burner speed” box.

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Editing options - Windows DVD Maker options often can be tweaked to solve a lot of problems
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Haystack
Last week I found Hero burnrom stoted working, it would not recognising my sony dvd burner.
This only happen last week, after the latest nero ubgrate 7.10.1 I don't konw if it coensideds with a vista security ubdate or not.
Changing to Roxio seams to have fixed the problem
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16/07/07 | 05:35
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pedro_c76
I also have trouble with the DVD Recorder i.e. the PC freezes and only a power off will clear it. Any ideas out there????
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ernould
I have been having trouble burning music and pictures to disk it keeps asking me to format device and now i've got a safely remove hardware icon in my tray for disk device it's veery annoying any ideas!????.
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04/09/07 | 11:21
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ernould
forgot to say i checked and the device is working properly it's no big deal it's just annoying me cheers!!!!!
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04/09/07 | 11:24
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impersonator
Vista DVD Maker is no longer working correctly, I was able to put together a DVD a few ago without any problems.

I then had to restore my PC back to Factory setting with XP and then reinstall Vista since then the DVD Maker has not worked.

The problem I am having is that it freezes when I either select a menu style or when I preview the menu style, order if I just burn the movie to DVD it encodes for about 5% then locks up error msg Stopped worked and then restarts, does this all the time.

Please help, how can I resolve the problem.


PC details in brief

Packard Bell iMedia 2569
1 Gig Ram
Core 2 Duo
G-Force 8600
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