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February 21st, 2005 12:00
Need Help with Sonic MyDVD
My new Dimension 8400 came with the basic version of Sonic MyDVD, as well as a DVD burner. I have never written to a DVD before. I don't have a video camera of any kind, nor do I plan to purchase one; I purchased the DVD burner to be able to back up large amounts of data.
As an experiment, I tried making a DVD of some ".wmv" files I had downloaded from the Web (Star Trek: The New Voyages). I had no trouble creating a simple menu screen, and creating a video DVD from the ".wmv" files. The resulting DVD did play well on my home DVD player, however there was a very noticeable delay between the audio and video; I could hear the words spoken nearly a second before the actor's mouth would move.
The only thing Sonic's web site says is that some video capture devices would drop frames, of course I'm not capturing video, I've got files that have already been created. I didn't find much on Google about it, other than one site suggested converting the ".wmv" files into another format using Windows Movie Maker before importing them into MyDVD; since that will take a lot of time, I haven't tried it yet. Microsoft's web site actually recommends using MyDVD to process ".wmv" files, which is what I was doing that didn't work correctly.
Does anyone have any ideas, or am I out of luck?
As an experiment, I tried making a DVD of some ".wmv" files I had downloaded from the Web (Star Trek: The New Voyages). I had no trouble creating a simple menu screen, and creating a video DVD from the ".wmv" files. The resulting DVD did play well on my home DVD player, however there was a very noticeable delay between the audio and video; I could hear the words spoken nearly a second before the actor's mouth would move.
The only thing Sonic's web site says is that some video capture devices would drop frames, of course I'm not capturing video, I've got files that have already been created. I didn't find much on Google about it, other than one site suggested converting the ".wmv" files into another format using Windows Movie Maker before importing them into MyDVD; since that will take a lot of time, I haven't tried it yet. Microsoft's web site actually recommends using MyDVD to process ".wmv" files, which is what I was doing that didn't work correctly.
Does anyone have any ideas, or am I out of luck?
Jim Hardin
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February 21st, 2005 19:00
Sound Sync is a problem in all DVD burning software. It takes a lot of computer horsepower to handle the massive data flow required to create/burn a DVD.
One of best techniques is to defrag your HD before attempting to render/burn. Background operations like AV, screen savers or anything that might interfere with the cpu is also a cause.
In your specific case, you have no control over the quality of the source file. Some are purposely corrupted to prevent copies from being made. The fact that they play OK using a Player is no test of corruption! Players are designed to work with many errors.
rdcarney
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February 21st, 2005 21:00
Thank you for your reply.
My Dimension 8400 has less than ten hours use on it, so I believe a fragmented hard drive is not an issue. I would hope that a 3.2Ghz processor with 1GB of memory, and well over 100GB of free space on a SATA HD, would be more than enough horsepower. The only background processes (besides the Windows XP slide show screen saver) is the McAfee firewall and antivirus that came with the system.
Jim Hardin
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February 22nd, 2005 19:00
rdcarney: To be blunt, if you can't follow suggestions, you are doomed to coasters!
I was giving you some hard learned lessons I have picked up over the last 2 years… In that time, I have burned about 200+ DVDs on a dedicated 3.0ghz PC w/ 1.5gb of RAM and 400gb of HD.
So I do have a good deal of experience and some pretty good hardware, and I do wish you luck.
rdcarney
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February 22nd, 2005 22:00
Jim, I'm sorry if you misunderstood my reply. I appreciate your input, and I actually did follow your advice. I was just stating that I thought I had all of these areas covered.
I'm used to banging my head against industrial applications. Consumer applications seem so fragile in comparison. Issues like the ones you stated can bring some very expensive hardware to a near standstill; believe me, I've argued with more than one customer about the merits of defragmenting their hard drive, making certain they have enough free space on their data drives, etc. I've just never tried to burn a video DVD before!
I appreciate your suggestions. Thank you very much.
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February 24th, 2005 19:00
Sorry for misunderstanding your response!
davexps350
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March 4th, 2005 02:00
Dell XPS-R350 (old Pentium II 350mhz) upgraded with a Powerleap Celeron 1.4ghz CPU.
640mb Ram (used to have 384mb which worked too)
60gb 7200rpm drive by Hitachi
Windows XP Home
Sonic MyDVD 6.0
To capture video I bought a Adaptec PCI Vide-oh! capture card, which came with an older version of Sonic MyDVD (they gave me an option through an email message a few months after I bought the card to upgrade to Sonic MyDVD 6 for $29.95 direct download and I did)
Sonic MyDVD is an excellent program. I think your problem may be in the conversion of the WMV file to a DVD. I don't know who encoded the WMV file but it may have been done poorly.
You should have no problems whatsoever with your Dell 8400 and Sonic MyDVD. If I can do what I do with a measly Celeron you should be able to do anything with a new 8400!!
Hope this sheds some light on the issue.
Cheers,
Dave
sundance sue
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March 7th, 2005 15:00
rdcarney
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March 7th, 2005 19:00
davexps350
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March 7th, 2005 20:00
Try saving it with the disk icon instead of hitting burn and then letting it prompt you to save it. That's how I do it. Sometimes it might take a minute to save it. You just have to wait.
Dave