Windows DVD maker----why bother !!! pafos 10/13/2008 12:02:00 PM Problem---DVD's burnt with Windows DVD maker will not fianalize amnd will not play back on normal household players Having spent a considerable amount of time and money (on blank media) trying to produce a DVD that will play on my normal Panasonic player I have given up. If you Google this problem there are many people out there with the same problem so why cannot it be "fixed" once and for all by MS. I have been trying to burn a photo slide show from Windows Live Photo Gallery but all it does is spit out the disc at 98.8% completion. The DVD -R plays perfectly on the PC but not on the stand alone player. I even tried changing the Burner and media types but they all gave the same problem. The disc is just not finalized. I can burn DVD's with third party software and these play just fine, equally, If I use XP pro all is well so it is down to Vista I am afraid. I have the latest sp1 version of Vista and all drivers etc. are up to date. In view of the above can anyone reccomend some decent software that will burn DVD's properly with Vista AND produce slide shows from jpeg photos ?? -- thanks in advance for any help Peter

Re: Windows DVD maker----why bother !!! "John Inzer" <oobie[ at ]doobie.xyz> 10/13/2008 2:11:37 PM pafos wrote: [Quoted Text] > Problem---DVD's burnt with Windows DVD maker will not fianalize amnd > will not play back on normal household players > > Having spent a considerable amount of time and money (on blank media) > trying to produce a DVD that will play on my normal Panasonic player > I have given up. If you Google this problem there are many people out > there with the same problem so why cannot it be "fixed" once and for > all by MS. > > I have been trying to burn a photo slide show from Windows Live Photo > Gallery but all it does is spit out the disc at 98.8% completion. The > DVD -R plays perfectly on the PC but not on the stand alone player. > > I even tried changing the Burner and media types but they all gave > the same problem. The disc is just not finalized. > > I can burn DVD's with third party software and these play just fine, > equally, If I use XP pro all is well so it is down to Vista I am > afraid. I have the latest sp1 version of Vista and all drivers etc. > are up to date. > > In view of the above can anyone reccomend some decent software that > will burn DVD's properly with Vista AND produce slide shows from jpeg > photos ?? ======================================== (scroll down for some links that may help you with Windows DVD Maker) You can use Movie Maker and/or PhotoStory 3 to create your slide shows. PhotoStory 3 For Windows http://tinyurl.com/4f869 or... http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx (this is an XP app but many users report success running it on Vista) The following freeware might be your solution for creating Video DVDs. DVD Flick http://www.dvdflick.net/ Be sure to read the Guide: http://www.dvdflick.net/guide.php If you have problems downloading DVD Flick... try the following direct link: http://tinyurl.com/3wcglh or... http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/dvdflick/dvdflick_setup_1.3.0.2.exe Save the file to a folder on your hard drive and install from there. Tutorials: DVD Flick Tutorial http://beginwithsoftware.com/videoguides/dvd-flick-guide.html Burn Any PC Video Format into DVD http://www.freevideoworkshop.com/dvdflicktutorial.htm Windows DVD Maker: Windows Vista - Help and How To: Windows DVD Maker http://tinyurl.com/yusbhl or... http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/search.aspx?=&qu=dvd+maker Windows Vista - Windows DVD Maker: Burn a DVD-Video disc http://tinyurl.com/38qgzd or... http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/27a0225d-260e-4313-8a82-7c5253e93e6f1033.mspx Windows Vista - Burn pictures and movies to DVD-Video disc using Windows DVD Maker http://tinyurl.com/3xtcfs or... http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/5633ddcd-46a8-4d8e-82e1-2506401a60261033.mspx -- John Inzer MS-MVP Digital Media Experience Notice This is not tech support I am a volunteer Solutions that work for me may not work for you Proceed at your own risk

Re: Windows DVD maker----why bother !!! pafos 10/15/2008 10:00:00 AM Hi John Thanks for taking the trouble to reply. Using Windows Movie Maker and burning with DVD Flick worked just fine for my purposes. For your info DVD Flick will not burn files created with Windows Photostory3 (Codec problem). What does annoy me is that I have spent good money on converting to Vista only to have to use other software to do a job that is supposed to be part of the OS in the first place. Vista shouts Multi Media but soemtimes fails. Why cannot MS sort out these small niggles. This burning problem is well known and has been around a long time. Peter

Re: Windows DVD maker----why bother !!! "John Inzer" <oobie[ at ]doobie.xyz> 10/15/2008 1:02:24 PM pafos wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hi John > > Thanks for taking the trouble to reply. Using Windows Movie Maker and > burning with DVD Flick worked just fine for my purposes. For your > info DVD Flick will not burn files created with Windows Photostory3 > (Codec problem). =============================== Sorry, I should have mentioned that you can import the PhotoStory .wmv files into Movie Maker and when you save them from there they will work. =============================== > What does annoy me is that I have spent good money on converting to > Vista only to have to use other software to do a job that is supposed > to be part of the OS in the first place. Vista shouts Multi Media but > soemtimes fails. > > Why cannot MS sort out these small niggles. This burning problem is > well known and has been around a long time. > > Peter =============================== Easy way out is just to search for solutions that do work. -- John Inzer MS-MVP Digital Media Experience Notice This is not tech support I am a volunteer Solutions that work for me may not work for you Proceed at your own risk