Mark57

I removed the DRM, used DVD Flick and ImgBurn and got it to play. Thanks everyone who answered.

Thanks for your input. The file I am working with is a purchased, downloaded WMV movie and DVD Santa will not convert it to another format. I tried several other conversion programs and they will not convert it either. The closest I came was with DVD Flick. It converted and burned to disk using ImgBurn but when I went to play it on the DVD player it said the disk could not be played. When I tried on the computer all the images in the movie were scrambled.

No. I make sure it's set for NTSC which is what US uses. I tried again and this is the log of DVD Flick and ImgBurn imgburn_write.txt dvdflick.log

No. I make sure it's set for NTSC which is what US uses.

I installed the new firmware and used a DVD-R disk. Same result. The movie was converted and burned but the replay only shows a lot of colors but no actual picture. The AVI format movie I converted and burned had no problem. They were both downloaded movies. These are the files that were made. The Audio_TS folder was empty.

Sorry. I 15:58:35 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started! I 15:58:35 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition (6.0, Build 6001 : Service Pack 1) I 15:58:35 Total Physical Memory: 1,963,848 KB - Available: 963,804 KB W 15:58:35 Drive L:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size. I 15:58:35 Initialising SPTI... I 15:58:35 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 15:58:35 Found 1 DVD

There is a later version 1.3.0.4 that includes some bug fixes, might be worth a try to use it. If you still get a crash, post in the DVD Flick forum about it, they should know more about the issue. I tried 3 different WMV files on DVD Flick each one took over 7 hours to go through the process. When they got to burning the disk with ImgBurn I kept getting the following error message for the first 20% of burning "Failed to write sectors xxxxxx-xxxxxx Reason: Write Error Retrying 1 of 20. After it got past sector 379935 it continued and then said it was complete. When I put the disk back in the computer I got asked what I wanted to do with the empty disk. An explore of the disk showed nothing on it. If ImgBurn showed successful completion, where did the files go??

I took a downloaded MPG movie and ran it through DVD Flick and it converted it so I can play it on my DVD player, but when I install it in my portable DVD player I get a message that this type of disk cannot be played. [ This is what was in the errorlog.txt file code] DVD Flick error log Version 1.3.0.2 build 720 *** Project info EncodeProf 2 Threads 2 OverScan 0, 3 TargetRate 0 TargetFormat 1 TargetSize 4 CreateISO 0 CustRate 0 EnableBurn 1 EraseRW 1 HalfRes 0 LoopPlayb 1 AutoPlayMenu 1 MenuEnable 0 MenuTemplt Mosaic VolumeMod 100 WhenPlayed 0 *** Warnings given EnsureEmptyDiscInserted | *** Titles 0 - TheDaVinciCode_2006_pc_purchase ChaptCount -1 ChaptInt -1 ChaptSource 1 TargetAR 1 ThumbIndex 895 *** Project sources E:\TheDaVinciCode_2006_pc_purchase.wmv Stream 0 (1) Dur 8945.34 StartT 0 Compr wmav2 BitR 127 Chnnls 2 SRate 48000 Delay 0 Stream 1 (2) Dur 8945.34 StartT 0 Compr wmv3 BitR 1372 720x300 24 FPS PAR 1 SAR 2.4 C:\Users\Mark\Videos\TheDaVinciCode_2006_pc_purchase.wmv Stream 0 (1) Dur 8945.34 StartT 40 Compr wmav2 BitR 127 Chnnls 2 SRate 48000 Delay 0 Stream 1 (2) Dur 8945.34 StartT 40 Compr wmv3 BitR 1372 720x300 24 FPS PAR 1 SAR 2.4 *** dvdflick.log 8:50:23 PM: DVD Flick 1.3.0.2 build 720 8:50:23 PM: Calculating stream sizes... 8:50:23 PM: Disc space used : 4311654 KB 8:50:23 PM: Average bitrate : 3762 Kbit/s 8:50:23 PM: Total duration : 2:29:05 hours 8:50:23 PM: 1 title(s). 8:50:23 PM: Using Normal encoding profile. 8:50:23 PM: NTSC target format. 8:50:23 PM: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ 8:50:23 PM: Threadcount: 2 8:50:23 PM: Encoding video... 8:50:23 PM: Title 0, source 0 8:50:23 PM: Source : C:\Users\Mark\Videos\TheDaVinciCode_2006_pc_purchase.wmv 8:50:23 PM: Properties : 720x300, 2.4:1, 24 FPS, wmv3, 8945.34 seconds 8:50:23 PM: Target BitRate : 3762 Kbit\s 8:50:23 PM: Re-encoding 8:50:23 PM: -i "C:\Users\Mark\Videos\TheDaVinciCode_2006_pc_purchase.wmv" -vcodec mpeg2video -s 720x352 -padtop 64 -padbottom 64 -r 29.97 -g 14 -bufsize 1835008 -packetsize 2048 -muxrate 10080000 -aspect 16:9 -minrate 3712k -maxrate 3712k -b 3712k -preme 1 -precmp 2 -subcmp 8 -mbcmp 8 -cmp 1 -sws_flags lanczos+accurate_rnd -flags +trell -mbd 2 -dc 8 -an -threads 2 -fflags +genpts -strict very -f mpeg2video -shortest -map 0:1 "C:\Users\Mark\Documents\dvd\dvd\0.0.m2v" 10:23:43 PM: Combining video sources... 10:23:43 PM: Concatenating video... 10:23:43 PM: Encoding audio... 10:23:43 PM: Title 0, track 0, source 0 of 0 10:23:43 PM: Source : C:\Users\Mark\Videos\TheDaVinciCode_2006_pc_purchase.wmv 10:23:43 PM: Properties : 2 channels, 48000 Hz, wmav2, 8945.34 seconds 10:23:43 PM: Recompressing to 192 Kbit\s with 2 channel(s) 10:23:43 PM: -i "C:\Users\Mark\Videos\TheDaVinciCode_2006_pc_purchase.wmv" -i "C:\Users\Mark\Documents\dvd\dvd\0.0.m2v" -map 0:0:1:0 -acodec ac3 -ab 192k -ac 2 -ar 48000 -threads 2 -async 0 -shortest "C:\Users\Mark\Documents\dvd\dvd\0.0.0.ac3" 10:23:58 PM: -1 from EncodeAudio: Audio encoding failed. *** ffmpeg_audio_title0_track0_source0.txt LE, ignoring Error while decoding stream #0.0 Error while decoding stream #0.0 overflow in spectral RLE, ignoring overflow in spectral RLE, ignoring Error while decoding stream #0.0 Error while decoding stream #0.0 Error while decoding stream #0.0 Error while decoding stream #0.0 Error while decoding stream #0.0 size= 0kB time=10000000000.00 bitrate= 0.0kbits/s size= 0kB time=10000000000.00 bitrate= 0.0kbits/s *** ffmpeg_video_title0_source0.txt 42x0 [wmv3 @ 0235EF60]concealing 812 DC, 812 AC, 812 MV errors Error while decoding stream #0.1 Error while decoding stream #0.1 Error while decoding stream #0.1 [wmv3 @ 0235EF60]Bits overconsumption: 2010 > 1920 at 12x0 [wmv3 @ 0235EF60]concealing 842 DC, 842 AC, 842 MV errors frame=61306 fps= 13 q=2.0 size= 926846kB time=2045.54 bitrate=3711.8kbits/s frame=61306 fps= 13 q=2.0 size= 926846kB time=2045.54 bitrate=3711.8kbits/s *** Project destination folder 0.0.0.ac3 0 0.0.m2v 949229151 dvdflick.log 2157 errorlog.txt 5640 ffmpeg_audio_title0_track0_source0.txt 11934 ffmpeg_video_title0_source0.txt 2893940 *** Drives C - HP - 2 FS NTFS AvailSpace 59650 FreeSpace 59650 TotalSize 232064 D - Recovery - 2 FS NTFS AvailSpace 903 FreeSpace 903 TotalSize 6409 E - not ready F - not ready G - not ready H - not ready I - not ready J - not ready K - not ready L - WD Disk - 2 FS FAT32 AvailSpace 133027 FreeSpace 133027 TotalSize 152588 [/code]

These are the files DVD Flick put in a folder it made. The Video_TS and Audio_TS folders are empty.

I am not sure, but I was able to copy the WMV file from my HDD to a DVD and it will play in any computer that I have tried. DVD Flick made a MPEG file not an AVI, sorry for the wrong information. When I check the properties of the movie file and click license, it doesn't show anything.

I ran DVD Flick using a second copy of the movie file. It completed but when I tried to play back the new AVI movie there was no sound and the pictures were all scrambled, a lot of different colored squares. Nothing I have tried, ImgBurn, DVDFlick, DeCrypter seems to be able to allow this movie to be burned to a DVD that can be played on a DVD player. Any other suggestions from you or anyone else? Thanks for trying.

After 0ver 4hours it finally finished, but there was nothing in the Audio_TS or Video_TS folder it made.

Did it state any error code? I can try it again and send you a copy of the log. Also, the preview pane shows a scrambled picture not the movie.

i'm confused So am I. I'm just trying to get a movie I downloaded to my HDD burned to a DVD disk that will play on a DVD player. What other information do you need from me?

:& :& :& I understand that. I inserted the DVD that has the WMV movie file on it into my computer then I opened DVD Flick and added the title. I checked all the settings to be correct then clicked create DVD. The program stopped after 1 hour and 36 minutes and said there were errors and was shutting down. I know you specialize in ImgBurn but you seem to know a lot about the compatible programs. What do I do now or should I try the DVD Flick forum?