DVD Lab crashes during compile...any suggestions?

[NCC-2000]

I originally posted a question in the newbie forum looking for suggestions on creating a DVD in a specific way. I was pointed to try DVD Lab and see how it went. I've created my project which took a day and a half of editing to do. But when I go into compile the program will crash after a while. I've tried the regular version and the Pro version. The Pro version will run the compiler for a little while longer than the regular one but it still crashes. Is it possible there is too much stuff involved for my project that the program can't handle the full compile?

My project is for Garfield Comic Strips. It has menus to select the year, and then a menu for each year to select the month. Each month then plays as a slideshow. When I run the compiler it cycles through each month saying "Generating Slide 8/31" and so forth for each month. I checked in the temp folder it uses and it is creating .BMP files during this time. For the full compile to work it would have to create 9693 of these files (that's how many slides there are in the whole project). Pro crashes just after it hits the 5000 mark. Is it possible my computer is just literally running out of resources for this?

[guns1inger]

That is an awfully big project, and I suspect is pushing DVD Lab harder than it's author thought anyone would.

To be honest, I would split the project in half (4800 slides in each) and use two disks, or at least compile two DVDs then join together later if space permits. I can't imagine anyone sitting through 9600+ Garfield comic strips in a row, let alone being pissed off that they have to change the disk after only 4800.

[proxyx99]

Quite possible, first: compile project with video dummy files to check the structure.
In my experience DVDLab is very robust and it crashes only if it encounters an error. One of your tags may be invalid, that's all. Happened to me, bad chapter index crashed it. Fixed it and it was OK. That was also huge, complicated project and it took me a while to find out what is going on.
Another time it was a screwed up AC3 audio that seemed perfectly fine, played OK but had some glitch that DVDLab couldn't get over. Observe what crashes it in copile log.

[reboot]

You can only have 32 items per menu, and 99 menus.
As proxyx99 has suggested, compile using "Test compile" (it's on the compilation screen), to see if it's an assets issue, or a structure issue.

[NCC-2000]

I don't have anything over the limit for menus. Just one to select the year, then one for each year where you select the month. That amounts to only 28 menus. The month menus then link to only 12 items, one for each month of the year. So this can't be an issue with going over limits with menus. Its just probably too much for the program to handle all at once. I have to figure out some easy way to split the project into parts, then merge the parts in the end to still create one DVD.

[reboot]

DVDLab should handle that with no problem.
Where have you set your temp and compile folders?
Using NTFS I hope?

[NCC-2000]

The Temp folder is the default (C:\Temp), the compile fodler is another folder that I created (C:\DVD Compile). I created this project just to see if it was possible to do this as I've had the idea kicking around for a while. It seems that either DVD Lab can't handle the sheer amount of slides it has to process, or my computer doesn't have the power to see the operation through to the end. No big deal if I can't work out a solution as this isn't anything that has to be done, just something I wanted to try.

[reboot]

I have compiled projects with 1500 slides, no problem, so I doubt it's a DLP issue.
Are you using Win9x or XP, or???