I cant burn dvd from Windows dvd maker ?

Question

I am trying to burn a dvd from windows dvd maker but i have not been able to do this, i am wanting to burn the dvd where the video has come from my sony handcam, the problem is that after i hit the burn button it starts encoding it goes upto 7.5% encoding - then just stays there for ages i finally give up and cancel it my self, please help as the handycam has my sons first days on and i would love to see it on my tv through my dvd player.

Thankyou

Answer 1

use any core to duo processor and more than 512 mb RAM (as much as you  can)let it be desktop or notebook  and your problem is definitely solved

Answer 2

well it does take a very, very long time to burn DVDs.  just come back in two hours and it should be almost done (depending on how long the movie is and what kind of burner you have).  if it still doesn't work, call tech support.

Answer 3

We assume you have already captured the video from the camcorder to the DVD, edited it in a program such as Windows Movie Maker, and are now attempting to covert that edited video to a DVD.  We hope you are preferably using a desktop instead of a laptop.

If this is correct, David B is correct, it can take a very long time - depending upon the format you saved the edited video, the type and speed of your computer's processor, The type and amount of channel of your motherboards bus, the amount of RAM you have installed, the amount of available hard drive space at that moment, the speed of your DVD burner, and how many other programs or connections you are running at the same time.

The computer must first uncompress the video from the format in which you saved it.  This takes as long as as it did to finalize the video after editing.  The computer must then compress the video again to DVD MPEG-2 . Depending on what MPEG-2 compression rates your DVD burner is using to render the video (there are several), this can also add time to the entire process.  Sometime during all this, the computer also has to create and install the DVD menu to the DVD disc.

Go to the bottom right of the start bar and turn off EVERYTHING you see - INCLUDING virus protection.  Go into your computer settings and turn off the screensaver.  You can also put the monitor to sleep or on the blank screen.  Disconnect the internet too!  You don't need to be checking email, surfing the web, or listening to music, or doing anything else.  Also be sure no one else is logged on to another account or otherwise accessing the computer through a network.

- Everything you on on your computer requires processor access, hard drive space for caching, and RAM.  Occupying 5% of any of these areas can add 15, 30, and even 120 minutes to your burn time.

You may want to consider doing this on your best computer - preferably a desktop instead of a laptop.  The encoding and burn precess creates a lot of heat in the processor which will slow down or halt your burn.  Desktops can usually dissipate this heat faster and more effectively.  Regardless of which system you use, turn down the air conditioning in the room with your computer and set up one or more fans blowing as fast as possible at the front of your desktop or the rear base of your laptop.  The air for PC laptops normally enter rear and is blown out the side.

For example, on our professional level 2.1g dual core laptop built 6 months ago, it can take an average of 2-4 hours to burn a one hour movie from edited video to DVD.  On our 3.0g Quad core desktop built 2 years ago, we could burn a one hour movie in 1-2 hours.   We are talking about converting a standard definition movie to the common SD DVD - at the time of test, each system had only 1g of RAM and the same size hard drive.

- The two major differences are that it obviously takes much longer on the slower laptop, and we must do everything we can to make the room and the table in which the laptop rests as cold as possible in order to prevent a halt from overheating.  This goes without mentioning that someone has to constantly check the laptop for errors since we have made the mistake of letting the laptop overheat when transferring videos that were only 1 minute long.

*** Overheating is not good!  It stresses and causes multiple problems in the metal that is used for the electronic pathways of your processor, motherboard, RAM, and hard drives.  Heat also damages and cracks the plastics and rubber that house and protect all your internal components.  Basically, it shortens the life of these material and something will break that requires an engineer to properly repair.