Whoops, I'm still getting a hard crash (mouse cursor freezes, have to cycle power) whenever I try to burn CD or DVD from MC. The crash seems to occur a set amount of time after blank media is inserted, sometimes after the burn has started, other times while I'm selecting files to drag to the AW.
I've been through the whole clean install/see when it stops working cycle a couple of times now.
What I find is this: MC10 will burn CDs & DVDs OK immediately after a clean install. It seems to stop working after I update DirectX to 9.0b and WMP to 9.0. All other CD/DVD burning programs installed afterwards will work OK - Nero, Roxio, the stuff that comes with the drives, WinXP builtin.
I suspected a hardware fault, so have been through a whole suite of diagnostics - Memtest86, Sandra, etc and nothing turns up.
So I'm guessing an interaction between WMP9 and MC10 is the problem?
Media Center Registered 10.0.73 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2592 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 981 MB, Free - 726 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1400 / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1233 (xpsp2.030604-1804) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping / Drive D: Copy mode:Normal CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive D: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-708A Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:40 MaxSpeed:40 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None