Ecstacy & Agony

[captain_slinky]

So I was finally able to download and install a cracked version of Nero7, YAY! It has the Wizard interface that I've been craving for easy DVD creation, complete with animated musical menus and everything! With just a few clicks i can take standard .avi or .mpg files and make them in to a comprehensive fully functionsal professional looking DVD, playable on any DVD player!

In theory.

The Wizard works great, but then I hit the "Create DVD" button and leave it to start encoding the video. All goes well for about an hour, then it just freezes; no error message or anything. The timer on the program is still counting down the Elapsed Time, but there's no progress.

I've tried it three times so far, no luck. Tried ending all unnecessary tasks through the Task Manager, nothing. And so my spare moments of my weekend thus far have een wasted on tryin gto get this stupid thing to work! GRRRR!!!

One more try... let's see what happens. Do you think that maybe i just need more Ram?

Comments

[nani-ka.livejournal.com]

That, or it could be that its getting hung up on something.

One thing to look at is if it'll let you update it - sometimes software manufacturers release patches & upgrades that fix bugs very much like the one you're describing.

Of course, it could be the malevolent evil of Bill Gates seeping from the windows folder to corrupt your Nero directory...

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I think I have found a part of the problem - my pathetic little 80GB hard drive. Seems there just wasn't enough space! Preliminary test disk seems to have come out good, now to go for a real disk!

[nani-ka.livejournal.com]

Sweet.