No preview when building DVD

garnpet · Post by **garnpet** » Sat May 17, 2008 8:05 pm

When I press the Play button when building a DVD ("Press Play button to start preview") nothing happens. Just a quick progress bar.

Ulead Video Studio Version 11.5
Direct X 10
Windows Vista
ASUS GF8600GT 512MB

Any suggestions? (IF I build the DVD everything is OK - just no preview)

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat May 17, 2008 10:18 pm

Welcome to the forums!

While you have DirectX 10, you probably don't have the latest version of it. It is not automatically updated like the rest of Vista. Go to the Microsoft DirectX website and you will find an update patch for it dated March 2008. That seems to correct the preview problem in VS11.5+.

garnpet · Post by **garnpet** » Sat May 17, 2008 11:48 pm

Thanks, that was the problem. Gotta love Vista. :shock:

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat May 17, 2008 11:56 pm

Glad it worked. For future reference, Microsoft has indicated it will release update patches for DirectX on a roughly quarterly cycle. The one before the March update was dated November 2007. So the next one might be out in June/July. The need for the updates seems to be related to the automatic updates of other parts of Vista, so I for one will ensure I keep DirectX updated as new patches are released.

mykoalabear · Post by **mykoalabear** » Sun May 18, 2008 7:42 am

Ken Berry wrote:For future reference, Microsoft has indicated it will release update patches for DirectX on a roughly quarterly cycle.

Presumably, providing one doesn't upgrade to Vista from XP (unlikely in my case) it is not absolutely necessary to keep downloading these patches? I'm on dial-up (and lucky to get that out here!) and those MS patches are biggies.

I have DirectX 9c, and not even the very latest version of that, but as VS11 seems to work OK I'm not going to bother chasing later versions ("ain't broke, don't try to fix it!")

Paul

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sun May 18, 2008 8:29 am

That's my philosophy as well! And if your current version is working well, I wouldn't bother. But if you do run into a problem, that March 2008 update also applies to DirectX 9.0c of XP...