Thank you Eric, the playback crashes only while playing the DVD on my PC. It appears to occur at the same spot.

Okay thanks. You say you tried four times which presumably means you burnt four discs. We need more details on exactly what process you went through.

1. Did you bun from VMS16 direct to disc, via DVDA, or export compliant mpeg files from VMS and then import these into DVDA to create your disc and burn from there
2. With DVDA did you create a folder image (I think it's called a Prepare Folder) and then burn that to disc
3. When you burnt your discs were they four different discs.

We need to eliminate various possibilities. If with Q2 you can locate the prepare folder (I suspect even if you burn direct there is a folder created somewhere) and with Windows Explorer go to the Video_TS folder in it you will find '.vob' files. Try playing the larger ones, which contain your video(s) until you find the one with the problem to see if it plays okay. Use Windows Media Player, VLC player, MPC-HC or the inbuilt Win 10 Player "Films & TV" to play the vobs.

I'm definitely not sophisticated enough to respond to all you say. Here's what I can tell you:

1. I burned this DVD (each was a new disc, i.e., four new blank DVDs used) with Movie Studio. They were rendered under the default setting: MPEG.2 720x480-60i;16:9 (NTSC)

2. Movie Maker sent this directly to the disc

3.no folder image, burned directly to disc

4. found Video_TS folder there were only 2013 videos (which I deleted)

5. FYI: this same problem happened with my old Vegas editing program, which is why I switched to Movie Studio. This problems seems to have migrated.

6 Your #1 note above: I have no idea what you mean by VMS16 direct to disc, via DVDA..."

Wish I could be more helpful

Joe

@psy1280

When you are in the "Make Movie" screen options are you using "DVD', or "DVD With Menus"?

Using Windows Explorer try copying the disc (from your disc drive) to your pc. If it succeeds go to the Video_TS folder created on your pc and try running the video vob files from there to check they play correctly..

The more I think about this, and from some of your comments, I get a suspicion it may be a drive problem-

1. How old is your optical drive
2. Are you burning DVD-R (as distinct from DVD+R)
3. Do the burnt discs freeze at around the same place
4. How full is your project size on the burnt discs. If you don't know its gb size look at the discs burnt surface. You should be able to see a difference in burnt/unburnt areas. What area is burnt? Quarter, half etc.