DVD Work Shop Express Crashes

[msomasun]

Hi,
I'm new to this forum. I have DVD Workshop Express. I'm having trouble authoring DVD/VCD lately [probably after XP SP2 Update]. I have hour long video with 20 chapter marks, and 4 thumnail Menus. Half way through encoding, it encounter problem, then abort it. It always happen and the problem happens when it starts encoding the Audio. I tried by attaching the audio [Generated from the MSP] and delete the audio from video, it worked. Does anyone encounter this problem before?

My machine is P4 2.53G with 1G RAM, and 160G Hard disk.

If anyone had this problem and found a way to resolve, please let me know.

Thanks

[DVDDoug]

Corrupted MPEGs can cause Workshop to crash.

I have had crashes. In my case they were caused by corrupted MPEG files, and as I recall, the program crashed only when setting chapters, not during rendering. So, this may not be your problem. (The corrupted MPEGs also caused Audio / Video sync problems.)

I had no trouble using an unedited version of the MPEG file, but the edited version (edited and corrupted with Video Studio) caused occasional crashes and sync errors.

[msomasun]

DVDDoug,

I'm using AVI format. Would it be possible for a corrupted AVI file? I've used MSP7 to output AVI format, then use it in the Work Shop.

Thanks

[DVDDoug]

Sorry msomasun,

I can't be sure because my stupid capture card only makes MPEGs. But, I wouldn't expect this to be your problem. MPEGs really aren't supposed to be edited, and I assume this is why they cause trouble.

On the other hand, the fact that you got it to work by splitting-out the audio, does seem similar to the A/V sync problems I had... Something to do with de-multiplexing the MPEG-2 audio & MPEG-2 video, and then re-multiplexing the AC3 (or LPCM) audio with the MPEG-2 video (when the original multiplexed file is corrupted).