windows XP screwing up my VCDs

[War]

Is there anything I should know about windows XP and VCDeasy and or Tempgenc - I recently installed winXP over winME and all of the sudden my VCDs are choppy. I have a panesonic CD51. Do i need to change the compatibility to winME for these programs to work in XP???

[pjoeter]

hi, the only mistake you have don is to install win-xp, i'l made the same mistake and i got a lot of dropped frames with capturing, and convurting the video's......o' boy.
i have deinstalled win-xp and went back to win-me and all is o.k now.

[War]

Crap, that is not what i was wanting to hear. I had to install XP to make my printer work. Actually XP broke it in the first place, I kinda wish I never hear of XP.

[ROBO1964]

Look for updates for those programs as that has to be it. Windows XP is the best OS ever made. Amazing Microsoft made it. Any problems I had with any program was always fixed with a patch to the new OS.

[donalo]

I agree. Windows XP isn't the problem. I've been using it for about 6 months now with no problems creating Vcd's or Svcd's. It just takes some software companies a little time to catch up.

[Craig Tucker]

Lots of people on this forum capture and convert perfectly using XP, me being one of them. So you can't simply blame the problem on XP. When you installed XP did you select to do a complete fresh install and irradicare all traces of me, or did you select to install over the top of me, so giving you the oppurtunity to revert back to me at a later stage. If you chose the second option this may be the problem, as I have heard of people having problems who install over the top of an existing operating system.

Craig

[cheeth]

War, your only mistake was upgrading over top of Windows ME. Windows upgrades always lead to problems because you're mixing DLL versions and registry entries, and Windows ME is notoriously unstable in the first place. Your best option is to do a clean install of Windows XP and I guarantee things will work much better.

[DigVidLab.com]

I have been running XP Pro for some time now, over a year? To day,
not a single capture software or hardware, or editing software, or
encoding software has yet to give me a moments problem what so
ever, period. All my VCD, XVCD, SVCD, XSVCD and DVD come
out perfect every time and play perfect on multiple computer
systems and settop players. Yes, XP was installed fresh.

Hope that helps someone, good luck!

[Nelson37]

I agree with the "XP is fine" camp. NEVER do an upgrade to your OS, ALWAYS a clean install.

[War]

I did a clean install first - after which everything I installed was incompatible and most of the games i loved would not load with a clean install so I wiped my drives, installed ME again - got everything re-installed then installed XP over top and had NO compatibility issues. So I disagree - clean install leaves you at he mercy of Microsoft, install over what you like and you retain what you like in XP. I have not had any other problems elsewhere, just in burning vcd's with XP.

I have the latest versions of Tempgenc+ and VCD easy. Should I be running Tempgenc+ and vcdeasy in WinME compatibility mode, will they work better since they were not made with WinXP in mind?

[cheeth]

War,

You never mentioned which version of Windows XP you're running. Home or Professional?

My system is running a clean install of Windows XP Pro and I have no problem running TMPGEnc or any other software for that matter. I also know of many people who've done an upgrade over their existing OS and had nothing but trouble after. Clean installs are the ONLY wany to go with any Microsoft OS. If you never had problems with Windows ME then you're in the minority, most people who tried ME had so much trouble they removed it went back to Windows 98.

[War]

WinXP HOME

[ROBO1964]

I have to agree that a clean install is the only way to go or you get what techs call a "Frankensystem".

You end up with a mish mash of drivers and what not. I did a clean install and sure some things didn't work. But I waited and sure enough the patches starting coming out and now everything works.

[Mirror_Image]

Lots of people on this forum capture and convert perfectly using XP, me being one of them.

And me being another.

I formatted with NTFS and did a clean install, of course.

[cheeth]

War,

When you had a clean XP install and found apps that wouldn't run did you try to run them in compatibility mode? Did you also apply the WinXP patches from the Microsoft Windows Update site?

There are several differences between Home and Pro, I believe the majority of people here are using Pro. XP Home is a scaled down version of the OS while Pro is the full featured version, you may want to consider switching to Pro.

[War]

I have all the upgrades installed. All runs fine, I just have to burn at 1x or 4x vs the 10-20x that i used to; to get the same CD-R burn quality with XP over ME. I changed the compatibility to ME but didnt change anything. I think I will clean installXP Im buying a new Hard drive with 8MB cache anyway.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR ADVISE- YOU GUYS ARE GREAT..

War

[burnproof]

I to put xp on my system over me when I instaled a new lite-on burner I found it would not burn at full speed 24x only 13x also a few programs seamed to run very slow and the taskbar didn't load properly . After a lot of grief found the I had to enable DMA for the drive and all my problems have now gone.