I have been trying like mad to convert some captured digital video to DVD compliant MPEG2. All the avenues I tried die with error messages or just cause my computer to reboot.

I started out with the trial copy of Ulead DVD WorkShop. I was thinking about buying the thing because I had used it before and it work (Older version/different OS). Within the last two months, I have done a clean install of Windows XP Pro on a new 100gig drive.

Now was my first need to author a DVD with the new OS. I capture around 54 minutes of digital video into around an 11gig file obviously using an NTFS partition. I first off just want to create a DVD of the straight video. I will add menus to a later version. DVD WorkShop crashs after getting to what it claimed was around 65% complete. I had a file of around 500,000 bytes of the encoded MPEG data. I tried a number of different quality settings with no joy. Sometimes it would cause XP to reboot.

Next I downloaded TMPGenc 2.58. It also died. The error message seems to depend on the priority of the plugins. One message was 'Privilege Order' failure or something. Other times an exception. I also tried a number of different encoding options.

I then tried a trial of Ulead DVD MovieFactory. It crashed XP after encoding part of the file.

My setup is:
Windows XP Pro on 100Gig Drive with NTFS Partitions
Athalon XP 1500
512Meg RAM
Windows 98SE on 80Gig Drive with FAT32 partitions.
gFORCE 2 Video card.
Pioneer DVD-R burner.

I created a DVD around 6 months ago with the same hardware under 98SE using TMPGenc and MovieFactory and then another one using DVD WorkShop. I had to work around the 4gig file limit and was hoping to not have to with XP.

I will try to see if file size may be the issue.

Any suggestsions or cures will be appreciated.

Tom