As the title states, sometimes, I feel stupid. Like today for instance. I'm sick, granted, that could be some of it. But no, I think it's more that I am under-informed about things.
I'm building my new computer. I bought a brand new DVD burner for my new toy. Of course, it sat there mocking me, until I put it in the current computer to play with it. I decided it was research. Yeah. That's it. Have to explore the options, so when it's in the new computer, I already have figured things out. Yeah. That's the ticket.
So..I put it in. No problem. I even get through the process of authoring my first DVD, BUT. It seems to take forever to make one DVD. Now, I'm not a rocket scientist, but it shouldn't take more than an hour to make a DVD. Right? Maybe it's the program. A conflict or something. I search for the answer. Hence, why now, I feel stupid. There doesn't seem to be anyone else expirencing the same problem as I am.
I haven't explained this right. I can tell already. I'm on cold medicine, so bear with me. And if you happen to know what the answer is, I would not yell at you for telling me. Truly, any insight at this point would be welcomed.

I have the following> A 30 gig, 513 DDR memory, AMD Athlon XP 1600, running Win 98SE, with an ATI graphics card, Sound Blaster live sound card, An ATI TV tunrer card, HP 9100 CD burner , and a HP 300i DVD writer. (I run Norton Anti-virus)
The DVD writer came with Arcsoft Showbiz DVD software.
Here's where I run into problems. I go through the Showbix steps of making a DVD. Adding the files I have 3 files added. , creating the menu. I get to the point of where it will get ready to make this DVD. It has 5 stages. The second of which is something called Transcoding. I think I know what this means, but I won't assume to know exactly.
It gets to Transcoding and stays there. On the first of the 3 files. The longest I let it sit there for so far is 4 hours. And it only ever gets mid way through the first file. Does that sound right to any of you? It doesn't seem right to me. So I stop it, and go looking for answers. So far..Bumpkis!
So now...in my cold medicine haze, I am looking for another DVD burning program. Maybe it won't be as pretty as the Showbiz software, I really don't care. I would like to make a DVD in less than an hour. I don't think it's too much to ask. I really don't.

So..that's my day thus far kids. I'm really hazed out, attempting to find something that works. My kingdom for that.

Till next time
Ali
The Misfit Chick