DVD Architect can't handle so many videos?

karen-a wrote on 1/6/2021, 2:01 PM

I'm on a PC, on the most recent version of DVDA, 7.0. Restarted multiple times and still having problems.

I'm doing a Bluray build for home videos, so there's a lot. Every main button on the top main menu (I've got three buttons) has six submenus, and each of those has six videos (or thereabouts), so 36 x 3 = 108. It started having memory issues, but rebooting got me through it. I tried to do the fourth button though and it's not having it. My system is plenty up to the task, so I'm guessing this is a problem with DVDA? Anything I can do to help it utilize more of my system, or should I just give up and limit the amount of videos I'm putting on each disc?

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Former user wrote on 1/6/2021, 2:45 PM

Are all of the videos Bluray compatible or are you using DVDA to compress them?

karen-a wrote on 1/6/2021, 2:56 PM

They're all MPEG Blu-ray exports from Premiere, same as I do for the weddings I cut.

Jack S wrote on 1/6/2021, 5:06 PM

@karen-a Unfortunately, DVDA is a 32 bit application, so by default it can only address 2G RAM. I came across this problem with DVDAS when I tried to import many Blu-Ray titles.
I got around it by patching DVDAS with LargeAddressAware, which allows DVDAS to address 4G RAM.
I tried patching DVDA7 but it didn't seem to work, so I stuck with DVDAS5.

karen-a wrote on 1/6/2021, 5:13 PM

Ah, gotcha. I think it's a duration problem as well, realized I'm getting way past the 2 hour mark with these videos cumulatively. Thanks for your help!

Teagan wrote on 1/6/2021, 9:13 PM

I had this very same issue with ~40 Hi8 videos and DVD7 kept crashing due to low memory since it's only a 32 bit program.

Save yourself some time and get "TMPGEnc Authoring Works 6" (free trial with full features for a month) and you can do it extremely easy there. The menu system may take a little getting used to but it will accept your blu ray compliant files and not re-compress them if your disc has space.