I've been laboring for quite some time about building my new computer. Crazy as it sounds, mostly because I fear I'll loose DVDWS. I know, I know ... but, I do one thing over and over, and that is convert VHS for someone using this program and I'm all set up doing it, I can go through it in a heartbeat and have it to his specs.
Anyway, that aside, I did build the computer. On top of that, I decided to scrap the idea of dual booting, in hopes DVDWS would run.
I decided to take a chance and just install Windows 7 64 bit without dual boot.
I tried to install DVDWS, and while it isn't working, its doing better than expected, and if I knew what the heck I was doing I'd probably iron this out. I'm hoping very hard, someone can help me figure out the issue.
The program loads, and runs. However, it only will display video from a dv-avi file (type2) no audio. And... It will not display any audio or video from an mpeg2 file. If I play the movie in the preview window, it will run, it will count frames, but nothing shows.
The interesting thing is when I went to finalize, and burn, (even though I saw nothing) it saw my burner, and burned a dvd. I have to play it back but I'm guessing there will be video there. I just got done and wanted so bad to post this.
The program seems to be missing a codec. First and foremost, does anyone know where DVDWS looks for these codec? Are they installed with the program?
Because I used Windows 7 Ultimate, I had access to Windows XP Mode, I did download it and the virtual engine to run it, and the program did display audio and video from both file types, Problem, it didn't seem to see a dvd burner, and very strangely it did not accept the mpeg as conforming, it wanted to transcode. This mode seems farther away from success than running DVDWS straight from Windows 7
I'm really hoping someone has some ideas for how to get DVDWS to encode and view the clips put on the edit line. This gotta work guys....