1) Compressor artifacts and 2) Processes not responding

The whole reason I switched from Windows/Premier to Mac/Final Cut was to avoid broken software. I'm beginning to think the Mac is no better. Well, that's not entirely true. I think OS X is more stable than any version of windows but DVD Studio Pro 4.0.2 is a step back in stability at least for me. Before upgrading to Tiger and FCS, I could reliably build and burn DVDs. Now I can no longer pry a complete working DVD out of DVDSP4.
I've got so many problems and so many questions I don't know if I should post them all in one message. I guess I'll keep them in one message but try to keep it short.
SYSTEM SPECS
PowerMac 1.8GHz dual G5 w/ 3 GB DDR SDRAM
Internal Hard Drives: 300 GB w/ 3 100 GB partitions
External Hard Drives: LaCie 160 GB FireWire 800, LaCie 1 TB FireWire 800
OS X version 10.4.2
Final Cut Pro 5.0.2
DVD Studio Pro 4.0.2
Compressor 2.0
BACKGROUND
I shoot and edit a weekly local soap opera: http://www.shadesoflife.net
Each time I complete four episodes I create a DVD with these four episodes on it for the cast. This DVD I'm working on is for episodes 92 through 95 and I'm adding chapter marks and scene indexes to the DVD. By using the DVDSP templates and the correct drop zones, this has been quite easy, except for the fact that I can't seem to get the video to import any more.
Actually I got three of my four episodes to import just fine. These were exported from FCP as stand-alone QT movies and included chapter marks. Episode 94 would never finish the background compression step when importing into the DVDSP project as an asset.
Because of the suggestions I read in other articles in this discussion group about this kind of problem, I deleted the episode 94 audio and video assets from the project along with all menus which referenced them. I then started Compressor and transcoded the Episode 94 stand-alone QT movie and got these two files as a result:
"SOL-094-DVD PCM Audio-.aiff"
"SOL-094-MPEG-2 60 min Fast Encode-.m2v"
Next I imported these assets into the DVDSP project and used them to build the menus. This went smoothly. But, when I run the DVD simulation in DVDSP, episode 94 shows serious artifacts which render it unwatchable.
QUESTIONS: What Compressor encoding settings should I be using? What is the meaning of "60 min" and "120 min" in the encode settings? If I use a "120 min" setting will the file be bigger or smaller?
As I set here after reading the similar problems people have posted and the solutions and work-arounds people have suggested I see that a number of processes are not responding, according to the activity monitor. Generally this means that something is broken, but what. After rebooting OS X, running Compressor and then DVDSP I see the following processes that are not responding:
- compressor
- coreaudiod
- DSPX_AEncoderServer
- DSPX_EncoderServer
- two copies of MediaServer
When I exit DVDSP all but the top two disappear. What is "not responding" a symptom of?
I could sure use some help here. Thanks.
Peace,
Rob:-]

Same here :
It seems this problem started after updating QuickTime Player 7.0.2
when I open the Simulator in DVD 3.0.2 I can see (in Activity Monitor) 2 processes coming up : DSPX_AEncoderServer and DSPX_Encoder.
Instantly they turn red and get (Hung) added.
The 'inspect/open files' for DSPX_AEncoderServer:
/ (/dev/disk0s9)
/dev/null
/dev/console
/dev/console
0x035fd89c file struct, ty=0x3, op=0x317820
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.fram ework/Versions/A/Resources/HIToolbox.rsrc
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.fram ework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/Localized.rsrc
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/H IServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/HIServices.rsrc
/System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/Versions/A/Resources/QuickTime.rs rc
/System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lpro j/Localized.rsrc
The 'inspect/open files' for DSPX_Encoder :
/ (/dev/disk0s9)
/dev/null
/dev/console
/dev/console
0x035fe6ac file struct, ty=0x3, op=0x317820
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.fram ework/Versions/A/Resources/HIToolbox.rsrc
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.fram ework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/Localized.rsrc
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/H IServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/HIServices.rsrc
/System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/Versions/A/Resources/QuickTime.rs rc
/System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lpro j/Localized.rsrc
So, in both files it stops with QuickTime.
We have QuickTime Player 7.0.2
So, if you read this, can you please help !!!
Tx
Leo

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