Does all this below help:

the burn log i having difficulty trying to insert this is because it contains many lines and i don't know if the Chinese characters is causing it not to load up but heres a link to it

https://gofile.io/d/YuAKgn

info - using Media Player Lite

General
Complete name                  : C:\MARKS\AUDACITY projects\darcy fixes\LATEST\Switzerland1953_Race_Highlights.avi
Format                         : AVI
Format/Info                    : Audio Video Interleave
File size                      : 109 MiB
Duration                       : 8mn 9s
Overall bit rate               : 1 863 Kbps
Movie name                     : DVD VR
Writing application            : MEncoder dev-SVN-r21190-4.1.1
Writing library                : MPlayer

Video
ID                             : 0
Format                         : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile                 : Simple@L1
Format settings, BVOP          : No
Format settings, QPel          : No
Format settings, GMC           : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix        : Default (H.263)
Codec ID                       : DIVX
Codec ID/Info                  : Project Mayo
Codec ID/Hint                  : DivX 4
Duration                       : 8mn 9s
Bit rate                       : 1 724 Kbps
Width                          : 640 pixels
Height                         : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio           : 4:3
Frame rate                     : 25.000 fps
Color space                    : YUV
Chroma subsampling             : 4:2:0
Bit depth                      : 8 bits
Scan type                      : Progressive
Compression mode               : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)             : 0.224
Stream size                    : 101 MiB (92%)
Writing library                : Lavc51.25.0

Audio
ID                             : 1
Format                         : MPEG Audio
Format version                 : Version 1
Format profile                 : Layer 3
Mode                           : Joint stereo
Mode extension                 : MS Stereo
Codec ID                       : 55
Codec ID/Hint                  : MP3
Duration                       : 8mn 9s
Bit rate mode                  : Constant
Bit rate                       : 128 Kbps
Channel(s)                     : 2 channels
Sampling rate                  : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode               : Lossy
Stream size                    : 7.47 MiB (7%)
Alignment                      : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration           : 24 ms (0.60 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration   : 144 ms

windows 10 pro 2002, 64 bit, 115 GB left SSD, toshiba tecra c 50 e

i even tried Wondershare Uniconverter and burned that file as an ISO, unzipped then imported it as a dvd movie into MEPs timeline, same nothing done, when to author it (chose dvd, standard pretty menu, no buttons or sub menus etc) then the Burning Window and that burned (an ISO) successfully)

obviously this could be an exhaustive process just to get a source/or sources for a project to be authored successfully

@mark-perry

Hi

Thanks for the information.

The log file you have posted looks to be the videodeluxe.log file not the dbk.log file.

However more concerning is:

In the log file you posted, the Chinese characters in it translate to meaningless comments which have no connection to what information the program actually stores.

Is this still MEP 17 and is it a genuine copy of the program?

The AVI file info also looks odd - it would appear to have been converted (from some other format?), or is a Sony Walkman portable media player file.

John EB

Downloaded file from internet as that format so its not being prepared then downloaded by me, it came from Darcyf1.com uploaded in 2014. I noticed it plays fine on laptop but on my Laser blu ray player the picture is an error message but the audio plays so I thought I'd try and fix it.

MEP is genuine from the website and downloaded, I found it strange too with the log file when you insert a line into Translate its identified as Chinese and sounds like nursery rhyme, whever thats cos of the video file dunno. I assume you meant the view log button immediately after it fails and that opens a txt file.

@mark-perry @johnebaker

The only oddities I don't understand on the files are the following.

Mark. In the file info you show here the file say it in progressive and yet in the audio it says audio is aligned on interleaves.

In the file on the net the following line towards the bottom of the file reads '[Export - Engine]: ReadOneCompleteInterlacedFrame: GetVideoFrameFromVIPForCPU delivers a wrong BITMAPINFOHEADER਍'

I'm wondering if the two are connected somehow and if the file was originally was interleaved but now not.

Ray.

@mark-perry

Hi

Can you confirm which version of MEP you are using.

I just tested burning a project in MEP 2021 and found there is no dbk.log file created - the data is now in the videodeluxe.log file in the same location as I previously mentioned, which would be the same file as the view log button is offering.

Despite the junk text in your file it looks like you are also using MEP 2021, if so what version number is it?

John EB

@mark-perry

Hi

Please do not post images with out removing personal information, in your last post you were showing your serial number, I have deleted the posts.

Version 19.0.1.23 is Movie Edit Pro 2020.

I suggest you contact Magix through the Support page,link is at the top of page - see here how to navigate through it, to raise a support ticket regarding the Chinese in the log file.

Did you convert the file to MPG? If not try it - you need to get both video and audio into different formats, which rules out MP4 as a possible format - the video most likely would not be re-encoded and the audio stream would only be stripped out into a separate stream.

John EB

understood, only giving you what you wanted and proving that it was legal.

as previous comments, i tried (to find a format that MEP might accept) to use that original file in Uniconverter to create an DVD ISO, unzipped it, inserted it (like importing a DVD movie) into the MEP timeline and that successfully created an DVD-ISO