Why must computers hate me?

**mtlmouth** · 08-05-2007, 09:23 PM

So, now I'm trying to burn a DVD of video put together in Windows Movie Maker. And it told me that it would open up Windows DVD Maker and I could burn the DVD from there.
Well, that's fine. So I've got it all set up and everything, and it's running incredibly slow. After two hours last night, it got stuck at Encoding: 13.4%, and Windows kept telling me that I needed to close out DVD Maker to save memory. I finally gave up on it, and nothing was burned to the DVD after all that time.
I'm feeling a bit more patient tonight, so I'm trying again, but it's moving just as slowly, and I have no reason to believe it's actually going to work this time.

I'm using DVD+R, which looked like it should suit my needs based on the comparison on the back of the box. Any ideas as to what the problem is?

MrCrabby · 08-05-2007, 09:29 PM

How much free space is on your hard drive?

**mtlmouth** · 08-05-2007, 09:31 PM

91.9 GB out of 148.

katmetal · 08-05-2007, 09:37 PM

Need more info.

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I'm trying to burn a DVD of video put together in Windows Movie Maker.

If I understand correctly, you already have the video joined/edited, whatever you are doing with it?

If that is the case & you are simply trying to burn, the burning process is fairly quick; I don't know your burner specs., media speed, size of video file etc., but for me a typical 4 x burn of a full length movie, 4.7 GB disc is approx. 15 min., give or take.

**mtlmouth** · 08-05-2007, 09:39 PM

It's 115 minutes of video, and I've got it all joined together to burn. I'm trying to find the specs on my DVD burner and such, but Toshiba apparently no longer has my computer on their website, so I'm having a hard time finding the information.

katmetal · 08-05-2007, 09:43 PM

R click my computer>Properties>hardware>Dev. Manager>DVDR/CDR Drives.

What is listed as your burner?

**mtlmouth** · 08-05-2007, 09:50 PM

MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-841S ATA Device?

katmetal · 08-05-2007, 09:53 PM

This is in a laptop? Is this a USB hard drive you are trying to burn from?

**mtlmouth** · 08-05-2007, 09:57 PM

Yeah, it's a laptop, and I'm burning directly from my C drive.

**Fandrew** · 08-05-2007, 10:00 PM

Is this Vista? Because I had the same problem a month ago. I gave up, and installed a different burning program.

PatrickStar4491 · 08-05-2007, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by mtlmouth

So, now I'm trying to burn a DVD of video put together in Windows Movie Maker. And it told me that it would open up Windows DVD Maker and I could burn the DVD from there.
Well, that's fine. So I've got it all set up and everything, and it's running incredibly slow. After two hours last night, it got stuck at Encoding: 13.4%, and Windows kept telling me that I needed to close out DVD Maker to save memory. I finally gave up on it, and nothing was burned to the DVD after all that time.
I'm feeling a bit more patient tonight, so I'm trying again, but it's moving just as slowly, and I have no reason to believe it's actually going to work this time.

I'm using DVD+R, which looked like it should suit my needs based on the comparison on the back of the box. Any ideas as to what the problem is?

That sounds more like a RAM issue? How much do you have?

I know Toshiba had a DVD burning utility included on my Vista laptop.

**mtlmouth** · 08-05-2007, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by JayCarrfan

Is this Vista? Because I had the same problem a month ago. I gave up, and installed a different burning program.

Yeah, it's Vista.

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Originally Posted by PatrickStar4491

That sounds more like a RAM issue? How much do you have?

1014 MB... that seems like a really strange number, but that's what it says...

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I know Toshiba had a DVD burning utility included on my Vista laptop.

The only one I can find is Windows DVD Maker, though it's possible that I uninstalled one at some point.

+SEAL+ · 08-05-2007, 11:24 PM

Regarding the RAM, I think it's supposed to be 1024, although for some reason the computer likes to shave off a few megs here and there. Same thing over here.

And you might want to try and see if there's online free DVD-burning software (is there?).

katmetal · 08-06-2007, 06:06 AM

1024 is typical 1 GB of RAM. What is the file format that you have created? ISO? Or Windows Movie maker file/other? There is plenty of free burning software on the web, some work with particular file types better than others.

For all my DVD work, I create ISO files & burn with IMGBurn

Well, when I am working with windows, that is. For Linux I have been using K3b & also DVDD under wine.

Andrew · 08-06-2007, 07:11 AM

I am not familiar with Windows Movie Maker, but Windows (XP and Vista) native DVD burning capabilities are horrible. Try Nero or Roxio or Sonic. (Like, export the file from WMM to something you can burn with those programs, it you can.)