Where is option to save directly to DVD?

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Hi, I have Windows XP MCE Edition - fully legal and registered and up to date.

But my Windows Movie Maker reports itself as version 2.1.4026. Is this why I
cannot find the burn directly to DVD option ? How can I get the correct
version of WMM so I can burn directly to DVD.

I understand this should be a standard feature of WMM on MCE?
 
You have the same version as I do... and I'm using a MCE edition on XP...
and I have the option to burn a DVD from Movie Maker.

The software to add the option is added by the computer maker, not by XP.
 
from what I see, it's not a setting... it's a third party plug-in like one
from Sonic.
 
Yeah,

Sonic plug-ins appear to be installed on hard drive, but not being picked up
in WMM. I guess I could try to edit the registry manually as suggested by the
topic:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa468475.aspx

My real problem is that when I am trying to save a 2 hour video to high
quality format, so that I can use a different bit of software to make the DVD
conversion, I keep getting the 'sorry experienced a problem - have to close
message' about 5 - 10 minutes in. This never happened when I was using XP Pro
(non-MCE) on the same PC with same hardware.

So instead of having to completely re-edit the film using a different piece
of software, I thought of trying to get the direct DVD writting function to
work.
 
Answering my own question - I think I will try to disable some of the codecs
and reduce the hardware acceleration - as recommended by the papajohn site -
LESS risky than regedit !
 
The sonic app has a limit of one hour for making dvds, if I remembe
correctly, so you may be wasting your time trying to get it to work for a 2
hour movie.

High quality in any dvd authring app will not allow you to save 2 hours to
disc. A good quality encoder will get nearly an hour and a half on a disc,
cheaper encoders may do it, but the quality is poor.
 
Thanks, I tried splitting the movie in half last night (so about 1 hour) -
partly to try the second half only - to see if it was an error in the project
sorce files. It also failed.

Previously I used Ulead software to get about 2 hours on one DVD, it wasn't
exactly HD, but was watchable...though I agree 1 hour gave much better
quality.

I'm going to try to solve the crashing problem, by disabling codecs and
throttling back the hardware acceleration - as suggested by papajohn. If this
works, I wont need to bother with the 'write DVD' option from WMM.

I did have a problem some time ago when trying to load MS Flightsimulator,
then the solution (on the same PC) was to hold back the performance a bit to
give the machine more time to write to the hard disc. I guess it could be the
same problem here, because the crashing seams to occur when the hard disc
writing is at full speed.
 
You don't seem to have fully explained the crashing problem, do you want to
in case we can add anything else for you to try?
 
Crashing Problem:

I am trying to 'Finish Movie' and save to either High Quality PAL or DV-AVI
(PAL). The movie is 2 hours long. After the progress bar gets between 5% -
11%, I get the sorry' Experienced a problem - have to close message',
followed also sometime by the Dr Watson (I guess MS error reporter) also
crashing with same message.

Machine has 3 IDE internal hard drives. I have tried saving the final movie
to same drive as project/raw movie files, drive where XP is located and the
third drive. All drives have loads of free space (60GB+ each).

I tried following papajohn's plan by disabling all codec under
'Tools>Options' in MM and changing the hardware acceleration pointer to
middle. Still same crash... ;-( I have also uninstalled/rolled back to IE6

For info PC is WIN XP MCE, Semprom 3400+ with 1GB RAM. I used MM before on
exactly the same PC but with non-MCE XP Pro for bigger movies and worked fine.
 
Hardware acceleration and/or disabling codec's sometimes resolves the issue
but sometimes doesn't.
There are a host of other reasons WMM could be crashing.
It could be a problem with the source files (what types of files are in your
project?)
MPEG2 files don't work and MPEG1 files sometimes do and sometimes don't just
like MP3's

It could be a problem with the length of the project (2 hours is a large
project).
Try deleting a large chunk of the project and saving as a different project
name to preserve the original then try saving that to your computer.

Regardless if it won't save to your computer then even having the "Save to
DVD" option will not help you as it still needs to save it to your computer
before taking it to Sonic MyDVD to create the DVD and, as Graham said, MyDVD
will not allow you to make a 2 hour DVD in the first place.

There are other possible reasons but since hardware acceleration and
disabling codec's didn't work these are the first 2 I would try.
 
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