dvd workshop running soooooo slow please help

[nikkio3000]

and the weirdness keeps going, now the program takes forever to open some video files, and then locks up when i try to open more then one at a time, also even when selecting the file to open it hangs on the selected file forever, i have been using the program wonderfully up till a few days ago , it was awesome and so fast now for some reason it is super slow and glitchy i have uninstalled it and reinstalled it twice, same problem i have more than enough ram and space, cause up until recently it just started this i also tried all the updates same thing happens, it's sooo frustrating anyone help please ?

[sjj1805]

It might be the clip you are trying to open and not DVDWS itself.
Try opening a different clip to see if the problem persists.

[nikkio3000]

that seems to be the case, one file will open in a snap and another will hang forever then finally open.........???? why???? They were origianlly avi files and i converted them to vob files then renamed to mpg........... i used the program avi2dvd to convert them. is it the files itself ??? what wrong with it?? thanx for replaying

[sjj1805]

Yes it will be the files themselves. I have had this happen a few times in the past. The corrupt MPEG can come about for hundreds of different reasons.

[nikkio3000]

oooooo so that's the problem, hmmmm, maybe trying a different coinverter would help? any suggestions

[DVDDoug]

They were origianlly avi files and i converted them to vob files then renamed to mpg...........

Oh No!!!! Do you still have the original AVI files? Do you know you can feed the AVI files directly to Workshop? It will convert them.

(I'm assuming "regular" AVI/DV files, like from a digital camcorder..... An AVI can actually contain all kinds of weird formats... DV, MPEG-2, DivX/MPEG-4, etc.) If you're not sure, AVI/VD takes-up about 13GB per hour of disk space. If it's less than half of that, it's something else....

A VOB is a special kind of MPEG. I don't know the technical differences, but changing the filename to MPG apparently works about half of the time. I know you're NOT using a VOB from a commercial DVD, but for example, I'm pretty sure you'll have problems if you change the file name of a VOB with subtitles, multiple soundtracks, multiple angles, etc. (That's ignoring the encryption issues.)

[nikkio3000]

no these are not from a dvd or anything like that just downloaded avi files with the subs already encoded in not on a separate file and no angles etc. nothing special.................... is there a way you can tell if it is encoded a certain way, i may just have to let dvd sorksop do the encoding for this dvd takes forever , is there a way to spped up dvd workshops encoding??

[sjj1805]

Downloaded "AVI" files are normally either Xvid, Divx or MPEG4 files which are all more or less the same, a very highly compressed format - more so than MPEG2, but retaining a very high quality of playback.
Do a Google search for "convert Divx" and you will find plenty of programs about. One good and free program is SUPER