scratch that advice about the ffdshow stuff....scratches head....I had some weird issues a while back with no sound on video burns and I had noticed the ffdshow icon floating around...uninstall of the klite pac fixed that...viola, sound!....was just noticing some problems with 'type' of sound...thought about it and figured it was because of surround sound being encoded which resulted in words barely able to be heard, but music and effects being quite clear...sooooo, I installed the codec pac again and noticed (to my chagrin) that ffdshow is pretty much integrated into the pac...what I did different though was to use the basic codec pac instead of the full, and simply chose the default install with no player....that seems to work fine with Nero7 and am burning a flick right now...since Nero7 previews the file before you start the transcode/burn process I am quite sure it will turn out as it should...excellent video (since I went for a 2 disc version of the flick) and sound as it should be...I'm pretty sure its a required filter in the codec pac that 'corrects' the sound issues I was noticing...

you mention startsmart didn't work....hmmmm...do you have a codec pac of any type installed?

you also haven't mentioned the format of the files....mpg or .avi....

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Hi, pyjamas...

I am sure you are beating a dead horse here because it is almost certain that your video file is corrupted or just simply very badly done in the first place (same thing).

The reaction that you describe re: Ashampoo with this file has absolutely nothing to do with Ashampoo, and the same is almost certainly true for Nero, as well.
It's the file. It's bad.

Use a Torrent client (NOT Limewire) and try to get another version of the same file !

btw, Peerless... There were two fundamental releases of Nero 7... Especially in regards to the OEM version that so many people are trying to use...

The 'early' Nero 7 looked just like Nero 6 ! There were only a few, more or less useless, bells & whistles added to 6...

The later Nero 7 releases were the start of the garbage chat engine that we now know as Nero 8 which should never be used by anybody !!!


btw2... Start Smart not working is VERY common...
And, InfoTools, when opened (or any attempt to 'erase' an RW disc), will frequently result in a full system crash.

Nero is dead.