Make DVD - Not Responding

jeffreycoleman wrote on 5/18/2012, 10:35 AM
After clicking on Make DVD, DVDA will hang (Not Responding appears in the title bar) for an extended period of time. Eventually, the Make DVD dialog box will appear and everything will proceed as normal. I am unsure how long it takes for the program to respond as I usually leave it over night and come back the next morning to find it is ready to proceed with process. I'm using DVDA Pro 5.2 Build 135. w/ Win 7 64 bit.

Any Ideas?

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 5/18/2012, 12:04 PM
What format of video as you feeding into it?

You'll get the quickest response if the video you've sent over from Vegas is optimized for DVD or BluRay (whichever you're creating).

You'll get the worst performance when you use video directly from a camcorder.
jeffreycoleman wrote on 5/18/2012, 1:33 PM
I render the video as 'DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video stream' and it inserts the .ac3 automatically.
Steve Mann wrote on 5/18/2012, 4:53 PM
The next time it appear to be slow to respoond, run 'resmon' and find the DVDA process, right click on it and then on "Wait Chain". This will tell you what the program is waiting on.


arbory wrote on 6/30/2012, 8:12 AM
mhh - suddenly i have the same problem with 5.x
it is not the file (rendered in vegas for DVDA) - tested a dvd project i did successfully last week, it also hangs now when pressing "make DVD"

so i thought to update from 5.0 (never change a running system) to 5.2 (133 latest version)
but same here....

so i have to make my dvds now on my old computer with DVDA 4.0

@Steve

Recource Monitor does not help - dvdarch52.exe is not responding

update:

as suddenly as it stopped working - it works again after 1 week.......so i have no clue what was/is wrong.

alain38330 wrote on 8/24/2012, 9:47 AM
I just get the same issue.
I upgraded from b128 to b161 and got this issue with b161.
Clicking on "make disk" is uneventfull, clicking a second time will freeze DVDA until I cancel it.
I then uninstalled b161 and re-installed ("successfully" per Sony say...) b128 but the issue still remains:
No event when clicking "make disk" and freeze if I click again (same thing using the integrated "tutorial")

Any idea before I go back to my one month old backup...and some days of troubles?

Thanks

Alain

Update:
Hard to beleive:
I have a DVD burner/reader and a CD/DVD reader.

I de-activate the drivers of both and the DVDA functionnalities went back (by the way I discovered that stuffs like "erase disk" or "optimise for disk" were not working too).
Then I re-activate both and loose again everything.
Then I de-activate the driver of the CD/DVD reader only and the functions went back.

I beleive the 2 disk trays are on the same flat wire...
Cannot tell more at this stage
(Windows 7 64bits/updated/12G ram/Intel core I7 950 3GHz)

@ arbory: have you done something with your DVD burner/reader?



Update 2
I beleive I found it.
I discovered a deffectuous DVD+R forgotten in my CD/DVD reader.

My hypothesis is the following:
- the driver for the CD/DVD reader was unable to "open" the DVD and was waiting/blocked.
- when clicking "make disk" in DVDA the DVDA program establish relations with the driver of the burner and reader
- this last one (blocked) was not responding and so DVDA was waiting...and waiting undefinitly...so "not responding".

Not sure of my story but the DVD being now in my dustbin, everything works fine...
...be carefull with low price DVD media...