Windows Movie Maker crashes while rending video

[zachd [MSFT]]

OK, what file types containing audio are in the timeline when you're trying
to render the video?

Do you have old versions of ffdshow.ax or ac3filter.ax on this system?

The current FFDShow Tryouts version is 1.5 or so.

I have a similar issue when using the Movie maker to publish to DVD.
In my case, the computer shuts down when the DVD Maker is about 0.5%
into the encoding process. The thing is that I was able to make DVDs
when I got this computer about a year ago. As per suggestions in this
thread, I looked for Voxware or msms001.vwp, but neither was found.
Below is the problem report:

Description
A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: AppHangB1
Application Name: DvdMaker.exe
Application Version: 6.0.6000.16386
Application Timestamp: 4549b5b0
Hang Signature: fdfc
Hang Type: 0
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Hang Signature 1: 584f67c48adb7a68652ecb757bfce763
Additional Hang Signature 2: 6afc
Additional Hang Signature 3: aa5e2e80363149938afa4df15d440bcf
Additional Hang Signature 4: fdfc
Additional Hang Signature 5: 584f67c48adb7a68652ecb757bfce763
Additional Hang Signature 6: 6afc
Additional Hang Signature 7: aa5e2e80363149938afa4df15d440bcf

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 13942035

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[wintallo]

I have had the same issue with publishing; however, I have found an imperfect solution.

I can only get WMM to publish clips that are under 10 minutes in length, so I cut my WMM file into sub-10 min clips (note: make sure you save each clip as a different WMM file and keep an original full-length file as well. Also, make sure you cut the sounds and transitions/titles in each section, not just video.) and then publish each file to my computer.

Now I have three WMA files (or whatever video format you prefer). I then open Windows DVD Maker, add all of my published clips, and at last I have my entire film burned to a DVD.

The published clips play in succession on the DVD, so make sure you add them to WDM in the desired play order.

I hope this helps!