I dropped the exe from the Vista folder into the Win7 folder and again the annoying message of "No codes installed" came on. Now I wanted to know why DVDMaker.exe started from the Vista "Movie Maker" folder would do it but the same exe from Win7 folder "DVD Maker" would not. I started my experiments again and et voila all of a sudden this one worked after registering the codecs like I ever did. Then a few days ago I thought of Windows Vista - because DVDMaker was also included in its Premium and Ultimate Editions as Part of the preinstalled Moviemaker 6.0 ( not the "Live" one of today ) and basically this DVDMker is exactly the same program like in Win7 - identical to say. Renaming DVDMaker.exe to something else.exe launches Windows Media Player setup, which is a double weired behaviour I have never seen this before. Microsoft must have intentonally blocked this program to run at all, my guess is the hashes of the Win7 exe's are blacklisted somewhere deep in the system. No matter what you do even after registering all sort of Win7 codecs manually, this message will always be displayed and even after adding Windows Media Center which has DVD Playback support the program will not work. In Windows 8/.1 this particular application "DVD Maker" is no longer included starting the exe from the copied Win7 folder will result in a message that no mpeg2 de/encoder is installed. In Windows 8/.1 WLM shows no such option by default. Under Windows 7 it also plays nicely together with the "Live Movie Maker" as a post-processing option to produce DVDs straight from the WLM app. This is NOT DATA-DVD-Option in Windows Explorer but a Application to author DVDs that will playback in any physical Player, with animated menus and buttons. Ok,Defintion first to those who not know :ĭVD Maker is a program included in Windows 7. This post lacks screenshots, forum does not allow me. and here I want to share it with anyone interested. I would still like to learn about recommendations for less expensive options.This one took me ages to find a solution. I see now that Sony offers a consumer product called Sony DVD Architect Studio for $40, and from what I can tell, this will do what I need it to do, although it is not the free solution I was hoping for. I mentioned that I've used Sony DVD Architect in the past that was DVD Architect Pro that is bundled with the Sony Vegas Pro video editor and lists for $600 USD. No watermarking or ads added to the output.Create customizable slideshows from a collection of still photos.Create custom menu screens, with custom still backgrounds.Windows DVD Maker, included with Windows, is too limiting: I am unable to create nested submenu screens, and I am unable to customize slideshows enough for my liking. I've used Sony DVD Architect in the past to do this, which does everything I need it to do, except that this time I am looking for a much less expensive solution. This tool doesn't need to actually burn the DVD, but I'd like it to output a VIDEO_TS folder that I can use with another tool (such as CDBurnerXP) to actually burn the disc. I'd like to be able to create submenus, so that a menu choice will go to a screen with more choices. I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to import videos, as well as some still photos, and create a menu screen that will allow me to choose to between videos or slideshows to play. I've already got video that I shot and edited myself with another piece of software, and I've encoded it correctly for DVD. I'm looking for a no-cost (or very low cost) DVD authoring tool for Windows.
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