Windows DVD Maker - Unspecified Error?

Question

I wanted to burn some videos onto a 4.6 GB DVD with Windows DVD Maker, but it keeps stopping and giving me an "Unable to burn the DVD - Unspecified Error" at 0.5% every single time! I'm burning only 2 .mpeg (both 1.4 GB) files, with Traditional Chinese characters in the title and notes.
Is it maybe a memory problem? I had 4.6 GB free on my hard drive and got this error the first time I tried. Then, I freed my hard drive so it had 8.8 GB of free space, tried it again, and it's still giving me this problem. I have 4 GB of ram (on a 32 bit OS). I've checked wikipedia, the microsoft site, yahoo answers, the windows dvd maker community forum site, thispos.com, and I didn't get any reasons why windows DVD maker would give me an unspecified error message. What can I do to make Windows DVD maker successfully burn my DVD? Help please!!

Answer 1

Most computer errors are born in a part of your system which hardly anyone knows or understands - the registry. This is the central database of Windows, which actually stores some of your computer's most important files and settings. Everything from your latest emails to your desktop wallpaper are kept in this database, making it one of the most used parts of the Windows system.Because it's used so much, the registry database is actually prone to becoming corrupt and damaged, which makes Windows struggle to read the files inside it. Unfortunately, 100's of registry files are corrupted every week and Windows has no way to protect against it - it's this problem which causes most of your computer's errors. The problem is that when these files are corrupted, your PC actually takes longer to read them and often can't read them at all.This causes errors on your PC which seem to appear randomly. You can use a Registry cleaner. http://cleanup-comuter-run-perfectly.com Registry cleaners are tools which have been created to scan through the registry. They work by scanning each file and then checking to see if it's corrupt or causing problems. If they find that it is broken, the registry cleaner will replace or fix the file for you to make your computer speed up and become free of errors. You should have a try! Good Luck!

Answer 2

give it up with that application Windows dvd maker it sucks // i have it / it came with my vista premium desktop computer // a dvd i made with it plays on my computer // but will not play on my $279.00 Panasonic dvd player /recorder machine get some software that will make dvds that play on a good majority of players // my expierience // the best / and easiest to use // imtoo dvd creator 3 / it will also make what is called a dvd folder / to your hard drive // for burning to disc later / it does avi / mpeg / vob / and has an auto generated menu (4 clips per menu) for those dvds that you make like music videos multiple clips so that you can load the dvd and select any one to start first if you wish or just play all and return to menu // and you can even select to burn a dvd without menu / best for one movie dvds / it is well worth $35.95 // please check it out

Answer 3

did you try updating the driver to it and i suggest a 3 rd party burning software you can find a free one i also had problems with windows (course i was trying to use a non read write disk lol) you gotta use a cdrw not a cdr or windows will not burn it by the way or a dvdrw

Answer 4

Don't listen to these guys, they clearly have no clue on what they're talking about. I am a developer at Microsoft so I know a thing or two about computers. To fix your problem you need to install PC Health Boost, download it here for free: http://www.pchealthcleaner.net



It's very light and it's the only antivirus/cleaner with a 99.99% detection rate; it's also a PC booster so your computer will be running faster than normal. Install it, hit run and problem solved. It shouldn't take you more than 5 minutes.

Answer 5

I think you have to try another software, some movies can't be supported well on WDM, if you want to burn any moives to DVD writeable disc, and can play well on home DVD player, you can try RZ DVD Creator, it can burn long videos into one disc, it can burn multi videos into one disc, it can auto fit the size, it can convert any movies to video DVD and burn to any CD&DVD wirteable disc(CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, etc), such as wmv to DVD, avi to DVD, mpg to DVD, etc.



You can yahoo or google search and download "RZ DVD Creator", work well on my computer, easy to use, good quality, most functionality, hope it can help you with your problem

Answer 6

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