IDVD multiplexing error

I built a short sideshow (9 min) with music in iMovie5 and successfully imported into iDVD. When I try to burn the movie to DVD disc using my external LaCie d2 DVD+/- RW I get a multiplexing error. I have recreated the movie from iMovie5 and that doesn't help. Any suggestions? I contacted LaCie and they told me to try one of their recommended media (Verbatim) and that didn't work. Any comments would be appreciated.

I AM HAVING THIS SAME ISSUE and it's driving me insane.
I have tried every route. I can burn other things to the DVD-R or DVD-RW disk from the external LaCie burner, so I know it works...but now as far as iDVD being able to burn it just won't do it. I get about 3 seconds of my dvd movie menu and then it quits. I cannot even get them to play in the imac drive without having to go to the files and find the one that plays it on the computer.
This is really annoying as I have spent a lot of time trying to get this to burn correctly..even down to removing iDVD from the computer and then reinstalling it.
Arghhh....

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  • IDVD multiplexing error or freezes

    I am trying to burn 2 videos onto a DVD but I get an error code or else it just hangs and will not complete the burn.  I imported the videos into iphoto and then clicked on SHARE and Send to iDVD.  I used a theme and put in the picture in the drop area and then clicked on Burn.  This has worked before.  Then it appeared to be saving everything so I left it overnight to finish the burn. 
    It came up with a multiplexing error.  The error said to check the encoding settings.  It was already set on Best Performance and this has worked before, so I did not change it.  The first video is just under 30 minutes and the second video is about 8 minutes long. 
    The second time that I tried to burn to iDVD it acted fine and said it was Done with multiplexing but said there was about 38 minutes remaining.  It just hung or froze.  I had to cancel it and again have no DVD.  I am using iDVD version 7.1.2 and am using Snow Leopard v. 10.6.8 on a MacBook Pro with 5 GB of memory.  How can I get iDVD to burn these videos?  I am using Memorex DVD+R and have burned videos to a DVD successfully in the past.  Thanks.

    First follow this workflow to help ensure the best quality final product:
    Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the  File ➙ Save as Disk Image  menu option.  This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
    To check the encoding mount the disk image and launch DVD Player and play it.  If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding was good.
    Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality.  Always use top quality media:  Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
    That being said read  Bengt Wärleby's post in this topic:  HT1645 I was burning a DVD and the following message showed up. multiplex error There was an error during formatting. What is a multiplex error and what do I need to do about it? It's the most comprehensive teatise on the subject that's been posted in the iDVD forum.
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  • IMOVIE  IDVD multiplexing error

    For the first time, after many dvd done on iDVD 5.01 I had the multiplex error when trying to create a disk image . It says error 34506 . I tryed to burn real and image disk, no difference. I t gives me error even if i try from I Movie 5.02 to export a Quick time. I checked if there is any corrupted files but I can open each single video clip with quick time. I remove the preferences file, with no results. It happen all of a sudden with no major changes in the configuration of the system.
    If someone can help I will be greatfull
    Scricchiolo

    I also keep getting the "Error 34506" message and iDVD lock-ups. I have burned tons of DVDs with no trouble until now.
    The problem started when I (just) realized that my iDVD preferences were set to the default "best performance" when I switched over to my G5 tower. I have burned DVDs on it but did not realize that the "high quality" preference was not set like it was on my other machine.
    Anyway, since I switched it to "high quality" I cannot burn DVDs. If I set the prefs to "best performance" it works fine -- which is why I think dumping the "com.apple.iDVD.plist"; fixes things for some people -- it defaults to "best performance" on restart.
    I have tried all suggestions (delete encoded assets, delete prefs, simplify menus, keep snap to grid on, have plenty of free space, and even rebuilding the entire iDVD project) but to no avail.
    I found that the issue has everything to do with the "high quality" setting in the preferences.
    I am using iDVD 5
    G5 quad
    OS X 10.4.10
    Quicktime 7.2.0
    Importing dv from a final cut express project and 140 pictures as a slide show
    I'm not happy about using the "best performance" setting, but at least it burns for now. Anyone know what the differences between "best performance" and "high quality" are specifically?
    Hope this helps,
    Greg

  • IDVD Multiplexer error # -536870198

    I have been running a series of movies with slide shows at the end. All seems well in iMovie 5 but when going to iDVD 5 and doing the burn, it encodes assets, renders movie and audio. Almost immediately after it goes in to burn mode you hear the DVD spin up, slowdown, then stop. Error message appears saying "Burnung finished. Errors were found during process. I click the disclosure arrow and get the error code # -536870198 - Multiplexer error. Problem during Multiplex/Burning. Anyone have an idea what that code means and how to fix it?
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    I have been suffering like most on this discussion with multiplexing errors. The only thing I can add is something I haven't come across in reading thus far. System profiler says my superdrive supports DVD+R, but that type of media was the source of my problem. Interestingly, I burned 3 copies of a movie onto these type of discs, and that's when I began to get the multiplexor errors. I tried most everything in these discussions to no avail, and then decided to change the dvd media, just in case. I used Maxell DVD-R discs, and it finally worked.
    My point is: even though my superdrive should be able to use DVD+R media, it didn't. If you're in a similar situation, switch to DVD-R and hopefully, this will save you time, money and headaches
    Powermac G5 Dual 2.0   Mac OS X (10.4.4)   16xSuperdrive

  • IDVD Multiplexer error

    I've been trying for what seems like days now to get iDVD to burn my dvd but I keep getting the "Multiplexer error". I've tried changing the speed to 4x then 2x and that didn't help. I've checked for software updates, restarted my Imac and idvd numerous times.
    Is it possible anyone can give me a step by step guide of how to stop this issue? I really need to get this dvd burned a.s.a.p I have no apps or anything running on my Imac as I'm trying to burn a dvd and my Imac is pretty new it's got tons of space. It's 3am I've been working at this for hours with no sucess so far. I'm using Idvd 7.1.1

    Hi
    Multiplex Error - Can be a lot of different things - one very common and not obvious is
    • In iDVD - turn on TV-Safe area - NO buttons or pictures can go outside this OR EVEN Just touching it !
    Move all well inside this !
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    LONG LONG LONG LIST
    Multiplexing Error
    PART One.
    Use of strange video/audio material eg .avi, .wmv, .mp3 etc.
    I only use.
    Video - StreamingDV (miniDV tape via FireWire) and
    Audio = .aiff (as on audio-CDs) (else converted to this .aff 48KHz)
    Chapters !
    A.    Using strange letters in video project name eg +,/; etc. keep to a-z and 0-9 strange letters in project name eg +
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    B.    Location of Chapters
    • Can’t be at start or end of movie (Skip first/start one - iDVD sets this by it self. At the End - no need)
    • Not in a transition (or within 2-3 seconds from it)
    Important when from iMovie HD6 or previous - Now also observed when using FCE 4
    PART Two.
    from Robert Modero.
    "Multiplexing Error. Problem during initialization of tracks"
    Simply remember to add subtitles to your Quicktime files and menu buttons.
    Once I did that, I was back in business.
    from Boise Jim
    Do a safe reboot (by holding down the shift key until you see the spinning gear on grey background, then release, then restart when your start-up screen appears).
    I always makes a DiskImage first and test this so that it runs OK
    I use only - Verbatim DVDs
    I use only - DVD-R
    I burn at an as slow speed possibly eg x1
    This gives good DVDs
    PART Three.
    Multiplex Error
    Chuck, Chicago 2/7/2009.
    Back again. Here is what I have found to work. I also have and use a LaCie DVD-R/RW DL external drive and a LaCie external hard drive as well. Since yesterday I have tried a few ways to burn a themed iDVD project having four 56 minute movies on it, amounting to 226 minutes onto a DVD DL disc, capacity 240 minutes. Apple tech support really didn't know what to do but gave me a very good tip. I had two options left. Apple tech support's tip was to try disc image. One of the replies on a thread with this subject said not to, but my experience today is good. Put your project onto "Burn to disc image," under "iDVD, file." Yesterday encoding took me 23 1/2 hours. Overnight for iDVD disc image, encoding took 21 1/2 hours (again) while I slept. This morning I tried to copy/burn disc image to a DVD with Roxio Toast 7, and it stopped near the end of the burn with some kind of "error" message. So then I tried Utilities> Disc Utility> Burn icon, and followed it through. Be sure to click the DVD DL drive in the window "Burn disc in.". I had one other problem though. At the end of a 46 minute copy, it started to verify, and at the end of verify it rejected the burn. So I tried again, and when "verify" appeared, I clicked on "Skip." The disc finished burning and is doing fine and well. A long and tortuous process, but at last something works. I made several additional copies using Disc Utility. Best wishes. Chuck, Chicago.
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    FROM Bev.
    (Not a 'guy' but I will answer!)
    First, I do not think that mixing widescreen and standard makes a difference in iDVD.
    Second, you should use a better brand of DVD disk. Also, many of us have experienced fewer problems on playback with DVD-R disks. Recommended brands here are Verbatim, Maxell and Taio Yuden. Memorex and TDK are not consistent and may not give you a correct burn. They apparently have fewer layers in the composition of the disk. I have always used Verbatim DVD-R disks and have not had any burn problems.
    Also, choose a slower burn speed, 4x or less.
    Third, to determine if the iDVD project will burn properly, create a disk image file (from within iDVD, go File->Save as Disk Image) and test it. Mount the disk image and then open DVD Player (in Applications) and view your project. If it plays correctly, you can then burn the actual DVD disk from the disk image file using Disk Utility.
    From. Boise, Idaho
    I did everything I've seen suggested, but a friend (who used to be an Apple Genius) suggested that I do a safe reboot (by holding down the shift key until you see the spinning gear on gray background, then release, then restart when your start-up screen appears).
    It worked, and I got a clean burn from iDVD.
    Hopefully this can help other people.
    by dheb0422
    Well, I finally got it, and it was odd enough to post here incase anyone looks this topic up again. Many things were tried, including burning the unedited film, the edited film without titles and chapter markers, abbreviating the chapter markers in case length was the issue (remember the old iMovie used to truncate them when moving to iDVD?). In the process, I noticed that one, and only one, chapter marker was on the same line as the title marker. All the others were on the line above. The only way I seemed able to change that was to clip a few seconds of film. After that last clip, the offending marker took a place on the line above, as were all the others. That run published, compiled completely and burned. That's one for the books.
    One user more writes
    To add my experience with Multiplex Errors using iDVD (7.0.4), I recently created two iDVD projects
    Video from both passed from FCE 4.01 with chapters
    One project worked fine in creating disk image file
    The other gave Multiplex Errors
    I tried suggestions to remove special characters and no chapter marks at beginning, but nothing worked
    Note that I've used iDVD for dozens of projects and this is first time I've run into Multiplex Errors
    Anyway, for problem project, I tried an experiment where I removed all chapters in FCE and passed to new iDVD project
    This time multiplex errors gone
    So had something to do with chapters
    So now I tried numerous experiments to remove individual chapters and try again creating disk image with new iDVD project
    After numerous trys, I was able to narrow problem down to 1 "Bad" chapter mark
    That is, when I left the "bad" chapter in my FCE project and passed to iDVD, iDVD gave multiplex error
    When I removed "bad" chapter mark (and others in), no multiplex error
    As a final experiment, I moved "bad" chapter mark about 5-10 secs beyond original point and passed to iDVD, the multiplex errors now magically went away and I was able to finally create my disk image.
    I have no idea why this worked, but thought I'd mention here in case someone else runs into similar problem.
    Rich839
    In addition to Bengt's fine advice, burning errors can occur if you have located any of your menu buttons wholly or partly outside of the safe TV viewing area. Go to your main project menu, then click on View/Show TV Safe Area, to check. Drag into the safe viewing area any buttons that are outside the safe viewing area.
    Russ One - suggest this
    Multiplex Error-There was an error during muxing preparation
    One thing that worked for me was to export the video w/o chapter markers as a self contained movie (thereby not loosing the edits & etc). Then make a new FCE project and import that movie into a new sequence and add the chapter markers. I've used "-", "&" and "," with no problem in the chapter names. Removing the markers or exporting without them did solve the problem but renaming them with just numbers 1,2,3....5, did not solve the problem and since this problem seems to happen with with iMovie as well, it would suggest the problem is in the video or audio and in combination with the chapter markers iDVD just can't handle it. The only other possibility is that both iMovie and FCE share the same or similar chapter marker code that some how is corrupting the markers.
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    • Only A to Z and 0 to 9 in chapter title
    • No Chapter mark at very beginning of movie
    • No Chapter mark in or within 2 seconds from any transition in movie
    2. TV-safe area for buttons (no one outside this)
    3. Safe re-boot
    4. No other external devices connected - that are not needed
    SDMacuser adds to this
    • On #4 ... No ext. devices. Some think this applies mainly to ext. FW. Not the case. Also applies to ext. USB2 as well (not to mention flash drives too).
    Do not leave 3rd party devices / camera / camcorder plugged in unless it is being used with iDvd's One Step process. Certain web cams can trigger this also (especially ones with added features like LED light/s that draw additional power from the FW or USB bus).
    5. Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-up hard disk
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    7. Trash iDVD pref file
    8. Make a new iDVD project
    9. Movies in project with same aspect ratio eg 4x3 or 16x9
    10. No other programs/applications running during iDVD process. eg Internet, screen & energy savers
    Yours Bengt W

  • IDVD multiplexer error and other woes - a happy tale!

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  • Multiplexer error message when trying to burn DVD in iDVD

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  • Multiplexing error in iDVD

    I've read some of the other posts about this, but none mentioned the same symptoms I'm having.
    iDVD throws a multiplexing error if I have chapters in my video. If I remove the chapters in iMovie and then use iDVD to burn, it works great. But adding the chapters back into the movie (in iMovie), then burning using iDVD causes Multiplexing.
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    Hi
    My collecting material on this. Unsorted and not 100% at all.
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    I only use.
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    from Robert Modero.
    "Multiplexing Error. Problem during initialization of tracks"
    Simply remember to add subtitles to your Quicktime files and menu buttons.
    Once I did that, I was back in business.
    I always makes a DiskImage first and test this so that it runs OK
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  • Multiplexer Error message when using iDVD

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    I only use.
    Video - StreamingDV (miniDV tape via FireWire) and
    Audio = .aiff (as on audio-CDs) (else coverted to this .aff 48KHz)
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    "Multiplexing Error. Problem during initialization of tracks"
    Simply remember to add subtitles to your Quicktime files and menu buttons.
    Once I did that, I was back in business.
    from Boise Jim
    Do a safe reboot (by holding down the shift key until you see the spinning gear on grey background, then release, then restart when your start-up screen appears).
    I always makes a DiskImage first and test this so that it runs OK
    I use only - Verbatim DVDs
    I use only - DVD-R
    I burn at an as slow speed possibly eg x1
    This gives good DVDs
    PART Three.
    Multiplex Error
    Chuck, Chicago 2/7/2009.
    Back again. Here is what I have found to work. I also have and use a LaCie DVD-R/RW DL external drive and a LaCie external hard drive as well. Since yesterday I have tried a few ways to burn a themed iDVD project having four 56 minute movies on it, amounting to 226 minutes onto a DVD DL disc, capacity 240 minutes. Apple tech support really didn't know what to do but gave me a very good tip. I had two options left. Apple tech support's tip was to try disc image. One of the replies on a thread with this subject said not to, but my experience today is good. Put your project onto "Burn to disc image," under "iDVD, file." Yesterday encoding took me 23 1/2 hours. Overnight for iDVD disc image, encoding took 21 1/2 hours (again) while I slept. This morning I tried to copy/burn disc image to a DVD with Roxio Toast 7, and it stopped near the end of the burn with some kind of "error" message. So then I tried Utilities> Disc Utility> Burn icon, and followed it through. Be sure to click the DVD DL drive in the window "Burn disc in:". I had one other problem though. At the end of a 46 minute copy, it started to verify, and at the end of verify it rejected the burn. So I tried again, and when "verify" appeared, I clicked on "Skip." The disc finished burning and is doing fine and well. A long and tortuous process, but at last something works. I made several additional copies using Disc Utility. Best wishes. Chuck, Chicago.
    2. Disconnect any other external devices not absolutly needed.
    eg external USB/USB2 hard disks, other FW hard disks etc.
    3 Chapter marks in transitions - minimum 2 sec from
    FROM Bev.
    (Not a 'guy' but I will answer!)
    First, I do not think that mixing widescreen and standard makes a difference in iDVD.
    Second, you should use a better brand of DVD disk. Also, many of us have experienced fewer problems on playback with DVD-R disks. Recommended brands here are Verbatim, Maxell and Taio Yuden. Memorex and TDK are not consistent and may not give you a correct burn. They apparently have fewer layers in the composition of the disk. I have always used Verbatim DVD-R disks and have not had any burn problems.
    Also, choose a slower burn speed, 4x or less.
    Third, to determine if the iDVD project will burn properly, create a disk image file (from within iDVD, go File->Save as Disk Image) and test it. Mount the disk image and then open DVD Player (in Applications) and view your project. If it plays correctly, you can then burn the actual DVD disk from the disk image file using Disk Utility.
    From: Boise, Idaho
    I did everything I've seen suggested, but a friend (who used to be an Apple Genius) suggested that I do a safe reboot (by holding down the shift key until you see the spinning gear on grey background, then release, then restart when your start-up screen appears).
    It worked, and I got a clean burn from iDVD.
    Hopefully this can help other people.
    by dheb0422
    Well, I finally got it, and it was odd enough to post here incase anyone looks this topic up again. Many things were tried, including burning the uneditited film, the edited film without titles and chapter markers, abbreviating the chapter markers in case length was the issue (remember the old iMovie used to truncate them when moving to iDVD?). In the process, I noticed that one, and only one, chapter marker was on the same line as the title marker. All the others were on the line above. The only way I seemed able to change that was to clip a few seconds of film. After that last clip, the offending marker took a place on the line above, as were all the others. That run published, compiled completely and burned. That's one for the books.
    Yours Bengt W

  • Multiplexing errors in iDVD 08

    i am receiving multiplexing errors each time I do the foowing:
    1/ open idvd and choose one of the new '08 themes
    2/ add 200 images from iPhoto '08 using the media panel
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    4/ finally choose "save as disc image" from the file menu
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    I would keep a slideshow under 100 images for starters:
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302961

  • My markers/chapters created in FCP cause multiplexer error in iDVD

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    Obviously I'd like chapters - has anyone run into this before and found any solutions?
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