DVD-LAB goes down!

[parky]

I try again:
My DVD-Lab, newest beta-version! Has, since I've first installed it some 6 months ago, suddenly, and often without warning, DISAPPEARS from the screen and must be opened again. Sometimes it says: OUT OF MEMORY, allthough I've got 512Mb!
It has been the same with all 3 versions.
Sometimes it seems more stable, if I've managed to save my work first!
HOPE, that someone out there knows, what the problem is!
Sincerely Parky

[BJ_M]

that is why it is called beta ... if it is 6 months old , it is fairly buggy version .. get the final version out now ...
it also would not be the "latest" beta version by a long shot ..

beta is not meant for production use, only to play around with ...

[parky]

HI!
Thanks for the reply!
I know about the b-version, the 6 month is the first version, I bought for appx. 70 or 80 bucs (I can't remember). But the problem has always existed! I'm in for the newest version, it will probably cost me another 70 buc's but then I hope, the problem is solved. My "guru" says, it's my computer, that causes the problem, but I've burned DVd's in 5 years, so I doubt that that is the case.
Sincerely Parky.

[BJ_M]

five years ago the only DVD burner was the pioneer SCSI 201 external 1x burner (later upped to 2x) -- i have one still ... the only authoring software at first was for the sgi IRIX OS which I ran on sgi Octanes ... :

you should contact mediachance if you have had a purchased version for this long and it doesn't work .. he is pretty good at helping you out .. considering it's basically a one man show (from Ottawa Canada)

[Skynet107]

five years ago the only DVD burner was the pioneer SCSI 201 external 1x burner (later upped to 2x) -- i have one still ... the only authoring software at first was for the sgi IRIX OS which I ran on sgi Octanes ... :

you should contact mediachance if you have had a purchased version for this long and it doesn't work .. he is pretty good at helping you out .. considering it's basically a one man show (from Ottawa Canada)

HAHA I have the exact same burner out in the field still working! I have never used the authoring software though. Back then it seemed unthinkable to me to actually own a DVD burner. I dreamed about it though.

[Shadowmistress]

Your problem is your computer, but you can probably fix it a little. I think you need a major defrag. This is why I think so:

I use a program called realdraw pro which is made by the dvdlab company and is the basis for its menu graphic structure. In the status bar of realdraw it actually displays how much memory is being used and how much is free on your comp on a second by second basis. I don't have alot of ram and when I am encoding with tmpgenc and running realdraw I usually hit 100% of memory every other second. Graphics hog alot of memory. Sometimes I get a blue screen error, somethimes realdraw disappears on me just like you describe, sometimes my computer curses me out.

You have to understand how memory works on your comp. When you do alot of stuff on dvdlab without saving, your computer has to put it somewhere (so it can undo) and it writes to the free space on your harddrive and erases it later. Now if this free space is in broken pieces all across your disk and the computer has to cycle from piece to piece to piece all the time, sometimes it misses rather than hits. What your comp *should* be doing is giving you the blue screen error. Apparently it's so confused it "forgets" it has dvdlab open at all.

Try not to have the computer saving 2 things at once, like making a compilation while you're manipulationg graphics. Try the task after a fresh restart of your comp (clean cache). Defrag your C: drive. If all these fail, your ram has probably just started dying on you.

Good luck.

P.S. Dvdlab and Realdraw RULE.

[parky]

Thank you!
Allthough i have 512Mb RAM, you might be right! I never work on 2 things in the same time! (I'm 56 years old!).
But, as we speak, I've managed to buy the latest PRO-version, and it seems that it has helped, it hasn't got away from me, yet, but then again, I've just used it 2 days!
Sincerely Parky.