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Hello Ken I cut each show in 2 parts, and so created 4 mpg2 files, I glued the parts back with Nero to have my 2 mpg2 shows, then developped menus with titles&chapters and created the final DVD ... which is close to be full like you said ! My hypothesis is that there is a ressource (memory) optimization problem in videobuilder (v51 and v551b11) proportional to the size of the show and its complexity, and the memory available, preventing the program to create the 25 min mpg2s Claude

Hi Lin I need to put 2 shows of 25 min (each) on a DVD, I'm using several music tracks with sound A and B, so it's difficult to cut them in shorter parts without loosing the music continuity. But I must add ~10 chapters inside each show at precise places, and I think videobuilder cannot do this : you have one chapter to start each show and you can only ask to generate chapters automatically at regular time interval but not at given places, ... or did I miss something ? Best regards Claude

Following the suggestions above, I tested and can confirm that creating an ISO file works and an AVI as well ! But I need to create mpg2 files because I want to import several PTE shows on one DVD and be able to create a complex menu with precise chapters points ... and Nero and other products are more powerful than VideoBuilder. The AVI process is too cumbersome because you have to finish your project in one session, one PTE occurence per show must run in background : ... and my computer gets very slow ! Conclusion : there is a limit on direct mpg2 creation which does not exist with AVI and ISO exports. I finally divided my shows in smaller parts and I found that, on my most powerful computer, you must have shows with less than ~18 min to be sure that the computer will not hang ! Amazing ...

Hi The preview in PTE works fine, and creating the .exe (130Mb) on 3 PCs are OK as well. I made several public shows with them. I just cannot get videobuilder to create a simple mpeg2 file of it (nor burn a DVD), it hangs the whole PC before the end Claude

Hello I have several slides shows of ~130Mb that I try to generate in mpg2 files. VideoBuilder 5.1 and 5.5b11 hangs always at the same place in a given show (but each show has its specific hanging location : between 60 to 80 % of the process). Tried on 3 computers (Vista and XP), always hangs but at different place for each computer for a given show ! Sounds like a ressource shortage, but I cannot figure out which one : there is plenty of disk space and virtual memory. What is eating up memory in videobuilder ? Large zooms/pans, number of pics/texts per slides, (all my pics are <1Mb) ? Are there limits ? PTE works just fine. Tried the debug feature (Ctrl-Shft-Alt-Q) : but no DVD.XML is created. Drives me crazy . Thanks for any help and advices. Claude