All Ulead Programs Crashing

[Bushco]

I have 3 products of Ulead and something gone astray.

all Video studio MovieFactory and Picture show crash when I try to import an mp3 and get an error "Error - in initialization 18906 -2-3"

Whats this mean? and how do I fix it?

Ulead great when working but a real downer when it not

[Black Lab]

There have been posts in the past about problems using MP3s. A fix seems to be changing them to WAV format.

[THoff]

Try Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio Devices -> Hardware -> Audio Codecs -> Properties -> Properties, and see if you have more than one codec capable of handling MP3 audio. If so, change the priority of the codec by selecting it, clicking on the Properties button, and assigning it a lower priority than another codec that handles MP3 (the codec with the lowest priority gets first dibs at decoding the audio).

If you have installed a "codec pack", I suggest considering uninstalling it. They tend to cause a ton of problems -- having more codecs is not always better.

[miturro]

Until Ulead comes up with an answer its a workaround. DPS4 does the same thing. Even on the MP3s it supplies for free.

Has Ulead come up with a fix yet ? Some of these posts are a year old

Adding MP3 audio is in the specs,Who wants to add a 100mb WMA file for a song 4mb in size in MP3 format

[Ron P.]

The problem is not with VS, DMF or CD/DVD PS, it is with the MP3 codec. MP3 compression is not standardized, even though it should be. Ulead's applications will work with some, others it will not. If there would be just one codec used for MP3, then I think there would be no issues at all.

[Ken Berry]

Without meaning to point fingers, the LAME MP3 codec appears to cause particular problems. I notice that Nero 7 seems to use LAME, so mp3 files produced in Nero may not always work in Video Studio...