DVD ups and downs

[Old John]

I have come to regard P2X 5.0 as a remarkable program with enormous potential As an aged citizen I have found the learning curve very steep indeed more of a mountain than a curve!. I catch a glimpse of the summit on occasions but I am stii struggling to reach the base camp.I much appreciate all the help given so freely by the experts.

With beta seven I was delighted to find the capability to create DVD.s of high quality. So I set to work.I first of all tried a very small sequence of slides and tried to create a DVD in PAL. I got as far as :-

' VOB files multiplexing ' and then a window told me I had an error code 143.

i have no idea what is meant by VOB files multiplexing , or error 143,I looked up the code on Google and it seemed to be an error in the Register. I ran a Register clean up prgram and removed the errors if found.Now I ran the trial create again and to my great delight everthing worked and I finished with a DVD-R disk. I checked it on my computer and it ran ok. How wonderful!

As all seemed well so I tried a show of 59 slides about 9.5 minutes run time.In 1 hour and 5 minutes I had a finished DVD. I ran this on our TV via a DVD player and it was very good indeed, in fact the best quality DVD I have so far produced with any program including Producer. I offered up my thanks to that genius Igor and his team.

But I thought I would like to see it projected. I set up my digital projector and DVD player and up came the title screen, but horror, it refused to go any further! I tried the DVD on my lap top and it ran perfectly as it had done on my main machine..The player on my TV (PAL) is JVC HR-XV31 EK which ran without trouble.

The player on my projector set-up is a Panasonic DVD/CD player DVD-S29, this only took me to the title screen and would go no further.

I have been reading the forum pages and it may be that the problem I have found is already known and being dealt with. However I would appreciate any comments so that I can begin again my long climb to the camp 4!

Thanks for any help

Old John

[e.b.west]

I have no ideas on your question, I just wanted to tell you that you're not alone, both in being old and being at the bottom of the learning "mountain". We'll get there...a lot of people here are helping, every time I grab a new tutorial from The Dom's site, I learn something new.

It still ain't easy though

[Guest Techman1]

John (or do you prefer, Old John?),

Anyway, welcome to the forum. We are far up the mountain, but camp 5 (V5 as we all know it) is a steep climb. We are almost there though, so "hang in there"!

Regarding the issues you have raised, I know Igor & Team are currently working on these. Once PTE Deluxe has been released (maybe in the next beta), you should overcome these two issues. If you have Ulead Movie Factory on your system, you can create an Mpeg2 file from PTE and import that into Ulead which should be able to be played well on any DVD player. I've done this and it works very well. This is only if you are in a rush to get this completed. Otherwise, I'm sure Igor will have a new beta version out soon which may address these issues.

I'm not a part of the WnSoft team, so I don't really have any knowledge of when things are coming out. But as things have run in the past, Igor's team will probably have a new beta out in a few more weeks. We can only hope so its helps us with the holiday projects.

Keep climbing, I'm sure it will be worth it at the Top of the Mountain!

Best regards,

Fred

[alrobin]

One thing I learned from my mountain-climbing days is that there's always another mountain!

Anyway, John, welcome to the forum! We'll all help you where we can. But I would suggest saving working with DVD's on V.5 until after Igor gets all the bugs out of the system.

[Igor]

John,

We completely re-worked DVD burning. Please wait for the next public beta.