Windows DVD Maker wont finish burning

Question： 

From: pafos

Problem---DVD's burnt with Windows DVD maker will not fianalize amnd will not play back on normal household players

Having spent a considerable amount of time and money (on blank media) trying to produce a DVD that will play on my normal Panasonic player I have given up. If you Google this problem there are many people out there with the same problem so why cannot it be "fixed" once and for all by MS.

I have been trying to  burn a photo slide show from Windows Live Photo Gallery but all it does is spit out the disc at 98.8% completion. The DVD -R plays perfectly on the PC but not on the stand alone player.

I even tried changing the Burner and media types but they all gave the same problem. The disc is just not finalized.

I can burn  DVD's  with third party software and these play just fine, equally, If I use XP pro all is well so it is down to Vista I am afraid. I have the latest sp1 version of Vista and all drivers etc. are up to date.

In view of the above can anyone reccomend some decent software that will burn DVD's properly with Vista AND produce slide shows from jpeg photos ??

thanks in advance for any help

Peter

Answer 1：

From: John Inzer

(scroll down for some links that may help you with Windows DVD Maker)

You can use Movie Maker and/or PhotoStory 3 to create your slide shows.

PhotoStory 3 For Windows http://tinyurl.com/4f869   or...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx (this is an XP app but many users report success running it on Vista)

The following freeware might be your solution for creating Video DVDs.

DVD Flick

http://www.dvdflick.net/

Be sure to read the Guide:

http://www.dvdflick.net/guide.php

If you have problems downloading DVD Flick... try the following direct link:

http://tinyurl.com/3wcglh

   or...

http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/dvdflick/dvdflick_setup_1.3.0.2.exe

Save the file to a folder on your hard drive and install from there.

Tutorials:

DVD Flick Tutorial

http://beginwithsoftware.com/videoguides/dvd-flick-guide.html

Burn Any PC Video Format into DVD

http://www.freevideoworkshop.com/dvdflicktutorial.htm

Windows DVD Maker:

Windows Vista -

Help and How To: Windows DVD Maker

http://tinyurl.com/yusbhl

   or...

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/search.aspx?=&qu=dvd+maker

Windows Vista -

Windows DVD Maker: Burn a DVD-Video disc

http://tinyurl.com/38qgzd

   or...

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/27a0225d-260e-4313-8a82-7c5253e93e6f1033.mspx

Windows Vista - Burn pictures and movies to DVD-Video disc using Windows DVD Maker

http://tinyurl.com/3xtcfs

   or...

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/5633ddcd-46a8-4d8e-82e1-2506401a60261033.mspx

  John Inzer MS-MVP

Digital Media Experience

 

            Notice

This is not tech support

      I am a volunteer

 

 Solutions that work for

me may not work for you

 

Proceed at your own risk

Another community answer from the Windows Vista newsgroups

Answer 2：

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Hope it may helps you! Here is website.

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http://www.effectmatrix.com/total_video_to_DVD_Author/index.htm 

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