5.10 Don't Waste Your Time !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi
I have burned many VCD's with Xat with no problems other than getting error
reports on some of the music that I wanted to use that I had gotten off of
the internet but if I rip my own Cd's have no problems at all with the pic
tures or the music but I do not get the transitions which I would love to h
ave and it says that I am using 5.01 on here when I checked. I generally us
e CD-R as I have not had good luck with using the CD-RW at all for some rea
son. Sometimes they will work but not always. One thing I have found is th
at I have to burn right away as for some reason I can not get the program t
o burn later on for me once I have saved the show.
I have never tried to put more than one show on at a time but know that oth
ers have but I have not figured out how to do it as of yet.
I do not understand why the transitions will not work though and that is an
aggravation.
I am using a Aptek DVD player which is the bottom of the line as far as DVD
players go but my one daughter has a top of the line Sony and on hers the
shows will play but not consistently at all for some reason with pictures s
talling and music cutting in and out but like I said these same shows play
fine for me.
The last show that I did had over 350 images on it and six songs and it too
k only about ten minutes to create the show once I got done with my editing
which is another story and took a couple of minutes to burn. I have an Ace
r 24x10x40 burner which is about three years old. I am running XP home edi
tion and when I am working on a show I do it online but have all of my othe
r things such as pop up stopper, fire wall, messengers etc all shut down.
Sandy D

[rbowren]

Xatshow pictures to cd.

I just thought 5.02 was bad but I tried 5.10 & what a waste of time.
Even though 5.02 won't put transitions on the vcd as it looks like it
should & would even though you have all the checks in the right
places. the vcd has glitches on certain pictures looks as if you cut
a piece of one picture & attatched it to another one it at least for
the most part works if you can put up with some bad pictures & it
takes just under two hours to do the create process on 800 pictures &
twelve songs.
With 5.10 To create the exact same 800 pictures with twelve songs it
took seven & a half hours ( YEP ! 7 1/2 HOURS.
Then if that was not bad enough I go to burn it & using the write
program that came with it it stops & says FAILED TO WRITE TRACK 1
ERROR CODE 1.
What a waste of time & cd's.
When I looked where the files are suppose to be with 5.02 there was 2
files one you could click on to burn & one that was th pc show.
With 5.10 only one file there the pc show & 2 icons with windows
flags if you look at properties on each one they say 153mb type
application, cue file 258 bytes, avg update file.
WHY is this version not even on the xat site ?
DOES anyone have it & had any success with it or any of the xat
versions ?
I want a clean vcd slideshow I can count on with transitions that I
can add music to.
I tried the 5.02 one more time with 3 different blank cd's recorded
back to back from the same create process & they all had the same
glitches in the same places so I think I ruled out the blank cd's
being the culprit.
I think it is the create process & I am asking because I don't know &
am frustrated at this point I have wasted alot of time & cd's to do a
rather simple task I just want someone to admit it is the product
that is the culprit & if not & you have ever gotten a vcd to burn &
play that was clean all the way through on a dvd player I would love
to hear how you did it.
I tried my nero software as low as it will burn at 8x.
As I said what came with the xat 5.10 did not work at all.
Buffer level / state shows steady 96% & used read buffer stays at
100% both these numbers stay that way all the way through the burn.
It always says burn process completed successfully after each burn.
The file always says it's about 100 mb bigger than it actually is
after I burn & check the disk it is always smaller.
Of course I have defragged & have nothing else running or on.
As I said before win 98 2nd. w/ all updates, Mad dog 52x24x52 burner,
Nero burn software, 80 gig, 256mb so I really don't think it's on my
end but I want to know so I will quit wasting my time.
All I want to do is preserve my scanned pictures, put some music with
them & be able to play them on a dvd player.
Is there software out there that really will do this without errors &
glitches ?

[bienabeth2003]

Hi Sandra,
I have version 5.02 professional, is 5.10 a later version ? I don't
see anything other than 5.02 on Xat's web site ,

Ray.


wrote:
> Hi
> I have burned many VCD's with Xat with no problems other than
getting error reports on some of the music that I wanted to use that
I had gotten off of the internet but if I rip my own Cd's have no
problems at all with the pictures or the music but I do not get the
transitions which I would love to have and it says that I am using
5.01 on here when I checked. I generally use CD-R as I have not had
good luck with using the CD-RW at all for some reason. Sometimes they
will work but not always. One thing I have found is that I have to
burn right away as for some reason I can not get the program to burn
later on for me once I have saved the show.
> I have never tried to put more than one show on at a time but know
that others have but I have not figured out how to do it as of yet.
> I do not understand why the transitions will not work though and
that is an aggravation.
> I am using a Aptek DVD player which is the bottom of the line as
far as DVD players go but my one daughter has a top of the line Sony
and on hers the shows will play but not consistently at all for some
reason with pictures stalling and music cutting in and out but like I
said these same shows play fine for me.
> The last show that I did had over 350 images on it and six songs
and it took only about ten minutes to create the show once I got done
with my editing which is another story and took a couple of minutes
to burn. I have an Acer 24x10x40 burner which is about three years
old. I am running XP home edition and when I am working on a show I
do it online but have all of my other things such as pop up stopper,
fire wall, messengers etc all shut down. Sandy D
>

Hi
When I downloaded 5.01 it was a beta at that time and I think if you go bac
k in the forum messages you will see a link that Chris put in there to get
it and I will look and see if I saved it on here and if so will send it to
you but I only have the non professional version but like it other than the
few things that I posted earlier on Sandy

Okay I just read your email here again and see that you wrote that I have 5
.10 but it is if you look at my email 5.01 so you have the later version th
at what I do Sandy

[info_xatcom]

5.1 (beta) is at:

http://www.xat.com/xatshow/eng.html

Chris.

>
>I have version 5.02 professional, is 5.10 a later version ? I don't
>see anything other than 5.02 on Xat's web site ,

[bienabeth2003]

> 5.1 (beta) is at:
>
> http://www.xat.com/xatshow/eng.html
>
> Chris.

Thanks Chris , I will check it out .
Ray.
>
> >
> >I have version 5.02 professional, is 5.10 a later version ? I
don't
> >see anything other than 5.02 on Xat's web site ,