Vista MCE Users, I need a favor

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rebkell

Discussion Starter · Jan 21, 2008

I've posted this several times, but it just keeps falling off the page, but I really need someone to try to do this and let me know what happens. I cannot burn a data dvd from my external drives or from my G: drive(my non OS hard drive) Below is a repeat of what I posted earlier, but it was at the end of the thread and probably no one had any interest in the thread. I can burn data disks from the C: drive or from the network shares(haven't tried a mapped drive, I don't have any)

Could someone try to make a data disk from an external hard drive or a secondary hard drive(not the C: drive) using Vista Media Center. Using the Create DVD -> Data -> select a file or two from the Video Library and try to burn it. I think I have found the problem, but I would appreciate someone else trying to do it.

I found out how to log the Sonic Burning session , and it appears that the path is wrong. I have my files on the G: drive as folders with the dates(example, 20080118) and then the files I want to burn are in those folders. Sonic lists the file(s) in it's logging of the burn session as G:20080118\\MyFile-muxed.mkv . notice there is no backslash between the G: and the folder. I can burn video disks from the G: drive, but when I just try to burn a data disk it fails.

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Rupert

· #2 · Jan 21, 2008

Works fine here. My Sonic log shows good file names:

Filename=P:\\shares\\Music Video\\myfile.avi

That missing slash may be a problem. I should also mention that I am using Vista SP1 rc.

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rebkell

Discussion Starter · #3 · Jan 21, 2008

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Originally Posted by Rupert /forum/post/12883510

Works fine here. My Sonic log shows good file names:

Filename=P:\\shares\\Music Video\\myfile.avi

That missing slash may be a problem. I should also mention that I am using Vista SP1 rc.

Thanks Rupert, I definitely believe the missing backslash is a big part of the problem, I'm running premium, with no SP installed.

I can't imagine what would cause it(the bad path) and I couldn't believe I was the only one in the world with the problem, I found one other person over at the Green Button who had the same problem.

Have you had any issues out of the SP1? Is this SP the one we will have to uninstall to install the real SP1 when it is officially released? I thought I read that somewhere on these boards, that you would have to back out of it, to get the official one installed.

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rebkell

Discussion Starter · #4 · Jan 21, 2008

Rupert, one more question, I'm thinking I may know what is wrong with mine, I"m at work and can't try it.

Do you only or specifically have P:\\share in your Video Library to watch, I have the entire G: drive on mine and it automatically added the subfolders, etc... I'm going to disable G: drive from the watch list and just add a specific folder to the library, I'm thinking that may be the problem. I'll report back later this evening if that remedies the problem. I once again appreciate the feed back.

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rebkell

Discussion Starter · #5 · Jan 21, 2008

I have solved my problem, it's still a bug, and Microsoft needs to address it, but when I added another folder to the G: drive with a plain txt file inside it and nothing else, all of a sudden the whole G: drive isn't showing up in the Video Library, and when I tried to burn a data disk from the other folder(I moved all my subfolders under one x264 folder) it worked like a champ and I checked the log and it did indeed have the correct path of the files, the backslash was included.

Another thread I read http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/comm...library-3.html

talked about Vista adding the entire drive if all the folders contained media files and instead of each individual folder needing to be added, it just added the entire drive, which would be good in my case, but it evidently fubared the sonic app.

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