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[gpvillamil]

Well, I've been having problems with CD burning for a while now, but from build 10.0.83 things have taken a turn for the worse. Basically, now MC crashes whenever there is any kind of media in the optical drive - either a DVD or a CDR.

Prior to build .83 or thereabouts I could drag and drop from MC to Nero, and things worked fine. However, now if I start Nero and then start MC, the system will freeze up around 10 seconds later. The mouse cursor locks up and ctrl-alt-del doesn't work.

Similarly, if there is a DVD in the optical drive and I start MC10, it will work for a few seconds - I can change views, select menus, etc. but then after about 10-15 seconds it will crash, hard, again.

Even if I do nothing, MC will crash hard 10-15 seconds after a DVD or CDR is placed in the drive.

I believe this must have something to do with auto-insert notification or autoplay. However, everything is set to do nothing, both in Windows and and in MC10.

I am guessing that something is locking up when MC10 tries to update the tree. Is there any event/process that would take place a few seconds after MC launches, or optical media is inserted? Note that MC crashes a few seconds after starting if optical media is already in the drive, AND MC crashes when optical media is inserted once MC is started.

Like another poster with stability problems, I have a 6-in-1 card reader on my system, mapped as drives M: and N:, also an external USB2.0 HDD on G:.

I have enabled logging on CD burning as per instructions, but MC is crashing before the burn can start.

There are no other issues with this system - other burning software and DVD playback software is working fine.

Media Center Registered 10.0.90 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2591 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1047 MB, Free - 523 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: 4.71 (0002) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0002)

Ripping /   Drive D:   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  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

[JimH]

It's possible that Nero or other software is getting in the way.  We've seen this in the past.  Try uninstalling it.  Try updating it.

Build 94 had a fix that _may_ have affected this.  It's worth a try.

[JohnT]

I have enabled logging on CD burning as per instructions, but MC is crashing before the burn can start.

Did you check to see if a cdwriter.log file got created? Sometimes the log file will be there even if the crash occurs before burning.