Mike Williams

I've burnt a 3 WMV disks with DVD Maker on RC1, but only those with
shorter/smaller content completed. One which would have been nearly a full
DVD time-wise took about 12 hours top get to about 82% and never got any
further. No error reported ... just 12 hours wasted making toast.

"terry" <twsutherland1953@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:O0LS2oz8GHA.2364@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi folks,
>
> I have successfully burned DVD Video Disks using MPG files but not WMV
> files. Most of my videos are WMV. I can burn WMV FILES to disk using
> explorer but cannot create a DVD using DVD Maker or Movie Maker with
> source files of WMV.
>
> I'm not burning copy protected files.
>
> All documentation I've read suggests WMV files are fine to create DVD
> Video Disks in Vista RC2. I've used + and - R and chosen all three speeds;
> fastest, medium and slow. No DVD is created.
>
> The encoding process gets to 99.0%, says finishing disc. Please wait. But
> when it gets to burning; the drive opens and there is an error message
> saying: Cannot Create the DVD. An error occurred when burning the DVD.
>
> Anyone know of a solution to burning DVD Video (menus etc.) using WMV
> source files?
>
> Thank you for any insight,
>
> Terry
> Seattle
>
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