A Little Help Needed with Burning first DVD

[Ed_Newbie]

Nero 5.5 Freezes when loading avi and then stops responding
tried adding nero aspi but no luck there either
using win 98SE
Pent III
30Gb hard drive
512Mb ram

Have just bought windows upgrade XP, but have video's on hard drive that i would like to keep.
Feeling very clueless now

any suggestion appreaciated.

[Tommyknocker]

Try to encode the video before giving it to Nero. An encoder like TMPGEnc may work for you.

[Ed_Newbie]

tried
everything worked fine
used
tmpegnc to encode
tmpegdvd to make ifo and vob files
sent to nero, burn went fine
went to play disc in sampro dvd player (work horse plays everything) it loaded and stopped.
tried it in my memorex still didn't play
on a whim i tried to play it on my computer using windvd and it loaded and stopped
am i missing a step here?
using dvd-rw media could this be the cause?
or am i really missing a vital step?
any help?????

[Tommyknocker]

What setting in TMPGEnc did you use?

[Ed_Newbie]

DVD NSTC

[Tommyknocker]

Have you scanned the AVI for bad frames with Virtual Dub?

[Faceman101]

Could be your media. You can try burning onto a DVD-R and testing.

Also, drop your VOBs into DVD2AVI. Save a project file or just scan through and see if they all look and play fine.