NERO Vision Won't Produce DVD's

[Ensign]

I use Nero Vision 4,5,0,29 to make DVD's, however, lately I can't make any who's source video is over 7 minutes in length. Yet I have no problem when it comes to make VCD/SVCD or a DVD that consist of multiple videos that are each under 7 minutes in length.
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Everything looks like its going well, so that by the time you get to the Transcoding page. The progress bars are moving steadily toward the 100% mark.

Yet, when the progress bars show that the transcoding is complete, Nero Vision stops! No warning, no temp files, and no command will work. The only way out of Nero is to use the "three finger salute follow by the repeatedly using the "End Task" button.

I have tried the "repair" command in the Nero Install program, defraging, and scan disk, but, that has not worked

I have over 13GB free disk space, and the CPU/memory "horsepower" so I believe I have enough "power" to produce a DVD

Since I still use Windows 98 I can't upgrade, so what can I do?

Maybe a full erase of Nero follow by a full reinstall?

Oh that will be fun

[redwudz]

If all else fails, then a un-install, then use the right version Nero Clean Tool, then a re-install would be my recommendation.

[jman98]

Since I still use Windows 98 I can't upgrade, so what can I do?

Let's see... according to your profile you have an Athlon 64 CPU. Since those came out years after Win 98, that means that you installed it deliberately yourself. I'm curious - what exactly did you think that Win 98 was going to do for you that XP couldn't?

Nero is a flaky piece of crap and not recommended for creating DVDs. It could be that there is some weird limit to Nero and if the video is under a certain length, say 30 minutes (just a guess), it won't create a DVD for you.

[Ensign]

If all else fails, then a un-install, then use the right version Nero Clean Tool, then a re-install would be my recommendation.

I did, and it didn'r work. In fact its even kind of worse in that the progress bar doesn't even reach 100% before stoping

Nero is a flaky piece of crap and not recommended for creating DVDs. It could be that there is some weird limit to Nero and if the video is under a certain length,

What do you mant Nero can't make DVD? I been using verious versions ( the one I use now since 5/08 ) of Nero for years and have always been able to make DVD with segmant over an hour in length and up to 6 hours total with no problem intill now.

I'm curious - what exactly did you think that Win 98 was going to do for you that XP couldn't?

Windows 98 came first

I was forced to replace my orginal motherboard because of the counterfeit capacitor problem and that it was of the (short lived) slot CPU design.

I was going to change the OS, but, I was let go of my job 3 days after ordering the Motherboard

And right now trying to keep my house out of the hands of the Tax Collector is more important then having the latest OS

[Ai Haibara]

Nero is a flaky piece of crap and not recommended for creating DVDs. It could be that there is some weird limit to Nero and if the video is under a certain length,

What do you mant Nero can't make DVD? I been using verious versions ( the one I use now since 5/08 ) of Nero for years and have always been able to make DVD with segmant over an hour in length and up to 6 hours total with no problem intill now.

He said it's not recommended for creating DVDs, not that it's unable to create DVDs. It might be worse as you're using a considerably older version (I don't know how well 4.x created DVDs, as I've only tried 5.x and higher.) I believe 5.x is the highest version that'll work with Win98, IIRC.

Have you installed or changed any codecs, recently? You might also post the Nero logs from one of the failed/problem attempts here (make sure you delete any mention of the serial number/product key from the logs).

Windows 98 came first

I was forced to replace my orginal motherboard because of the counterfeit capacitor problem and that it was of the (short lived) slot CPU design.

I was going to change the OS, but, I was let go of my job 3 days after ordering the Motherboard

And right now trying to keep my house out of the hands of the Tax Collector is more important then having the latest OS

I've got nothing against Win98 - I'm still using it on two old towers, but wouldn't you have driver problems installing it on such a newer set of hardware?

[jman98]

Nero is a piece of crap for making DVDs. It's a bad encoder and a bad burner rolled into one package. I'll spare you the long technical explanation about how for good measure it also deliberately destroys the whole reason that BUPs exist in the first place, needless making sure that your burned DVDs can't use the BUPs that are in them should a sector ever go bad. We recommend ImgBurn for burning DVDs and nothing else. It's free. However, I'm not sure that it works with Win98.

If you're really and truly trying to keep your house out of the hands of the Tax Collector as you say, why are you still on the internet, which costs money?

[Ai Haibara]

...of course, Imgburn won't encode video DVDs for you, if Ensign is wondering. It does seem to work on the Win98 tower on which I tried it, though (the other doesn't have a burner).

[tac7]

Try to find and download Nero 6.6.0.15. It's one of the last versions that works extremely well with Win98se. I even burned DL disks successfully after Imgburn choked and failed. In fact, despite everyone else's praise of Imgburn, I have stopped using it altogether in favor of going back to Nero, which FOR ME does a better job. Version 6.6.0.17 works with Win98 also, but you may have to use an older (705k / 6.6.0.15) version of MMC.DLL, otherwise a "page fault" error message may come up when using DVDShrink. - - I'm very happy that the beloved Imgburn works great for everyone else though...

[Ensign]

OK, Here are my replies

1: After going to an older version of NERO (from 7.2.7.0 to 7.2.0.3b) I got everything to work. It now even faster then before.

2: A for using other software to make DVD? I, dispite how other feel about it, like NERO! I have tried others (Ulead etc.), and found NERO to be both easy and flexable to use. Even if sometimes it goes haywire

3: And as for why I am on the Internet as I am trying to avoid the tax collecter? I am looking for a JOB

[tac7]

After going to an older version of NERO (from 7.2.7.0 to 7.2.0.3b) I got everything to work. It now even faster then before.

You went from NERO version 4.5.0.29 to 7.2.0.3b? I was under the impression that later versions of 6.6.X.X were not compatible with Win98 any longer. How did you manage to run 7.2.0.3b under Win98?

[Ensign]

You went from NERO version 4.5.0.29 to 7.2.0.3b?

The Version 4.5.0.29 only referes to NERO VISION not the whole packeage. Even while Vision was giving me problema, the rest of the software package Version 7.2.7.0 (Burning Rom/Express/ShowTime/Recode) never gave me any trouble

As for your belief that no NERO Version above 6.6 didn't?

I have no answer

Just Lucky I guess

[Ensign]

UPDATE

I think I have found the reason for the problems that I have described in this post, but, I still cannot explain why

It seems I only have the above problems when I choose the Dolby Digital (AC-3) 5.1 audio format from the "Video Option / DVD-Video tab.

I don't have this problem when I choose LPCM or Dolby Digital (AC-3) 2.0 audio format option.

So, what can be the problem?

Is it a bug in Nero, or is there something missing on my computer