Burn process not completely done, messing up dvd playback

When I try to burn from idvd, it goes through all the processes, then it completes the burn, spits out the disk and then the program freezes.
When I try to play back the dvd on a dvd player or computer it plays about half of one slide show, won't open the other and just quits working all together...my dvd player says it doesn't have playback capabilities, yet more than half of it played.
I did do the trial burn on the mac and it works perfectly...any ideas what is messing this up?

It could be any number of things. Of course, if it "completes the burn" then you should expect the disk to be ejected. The freezing up part shouldn't occur. You say that you did a "trial burn on the Mac and it works perfectly". I take it that you mean that you saved the project to your hard drive as a disk image, and that the disk image played fine. If that's so, then iDVD did its job correctly. Try burning from the disk image using the disk utility app on your Mac instead of directly from iDVD.
If that doesn't work, try going through the usual maintenance procedures and diagnostics. No guarantees that they will work, but worth a try. First I would try the oft applied maintenance of deleting preferences and doing a permissions repair. To delete preferences, close i/DVD and trash the file named com.apple.iDVD.plist found in User (the house icon)/Library/Preferences. Then do a permissions repair using the Disk Utility app found in HD/Applications/Utilities. In the left hand pane of the Disk Utility window seclect your hard drive icon and then click on repair permissions. Takes about 3 minutes to repair. Then relaunch iDVD and see if you still have the problem. iDVD will recreate the .plist file that you deleted.
Check to make sure that you have sufficient free disk space on your boot drive to do a burn. 20GB--25GB often is recommended on this forum.
Switching to a different brand of DVD media will sometimes help. Verbatim, HP, Fuji, Sony are brands frequently recommended here.
Update all programs to current.
Make sure that you have no conflicting 3rd party apps or Quicktime Apps. If so they should be temporary disabled.
Use Disk Utility to burn, and burn at a speed of 4x or lower.
Before you burn make sure that all computer intensive programs, and automatic programs are shut down. Programs like screen savers, power savers, automatic software updates and the like should be turned off.
If your DVD player can play part of the DVD, but then fails, possibly you have a DVD drive problem or a DVD player problem.
Here is a trouble shooting addy that might help:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1583?viewlocale=en_US
Good luck with this.

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Hi everybody !
Sorry for my bad english, but I assume you're all aware about the frenches are not very good at english.
I've got the following problem: I can't burn any dvd or cd. I've already tried with different programs such as Sonic, Nero 7.0, and I Tunes, and I got every time a mistake wich interrupted the burning process before it ends.
So I don't know what to day ! I've already tried to re install the drivers, but it's didtn't change anything.
In order to help you, I've saved an error log from nero. I hope it could be helpfull to someone who could help me !
Here is the log:
moi
5C82001080000000000666822849
Windows XP 5.1
IA32
WinAspi: -
ahead WinASPI: File 'C:\Program Files\Nero\Nero 7\Core\Wnaspi32.dll': Ver=2.0.1.74, size=164112 bytes, created 02/11/2004 13:54:32
NT-SPTI used
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Recorder: <MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ-841S>Version: 1.60 - HA 1 TA 0 - 7.0.0.0
Adapter driver: <IDE> HA 1
Drive buffer : 2048kB
Bus Type : default (0) -> ATAPI, detected: ?
CD-ROM: <MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ-841S >Version: 1.60 - HA 1 TA 0 - 7.0.0.0
Adapter driver: <IDE> HA 1
=== Scsi-Device-Map ===
DiskPeripheral : FUJITSU MHV2100BH PL atapi Port 0 ID 0 DMA: On
CdRomPeripheral : MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ-841S atapi Port 1 ID 0 DMA: On
CdRomPeripheral : AXV CD/DVD-ROM 2.1b axvodka Port 2 ID 0 DMA: Off
=== CDRom-Device-Map ===
MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ-841S D: CDRom0
AXV CD/DVD-ROM F: CDRom1
=======================
AutoRun : 1
Excluded drive IDs:
WriteBufferSize: 83886080 (0) Byte
ShowDrvBufStat : 0
BUFE : 0
Physical memory : 2045MB (2095084kB)
Free physical memory: 1277MB (1308144kB)
Memory in use : 37 %
Uncached PFiles: 0x0
Use Inquiry : 1
Global Bus Type: default (0)
Check supported media : Disabled (0)
21.9.2006
CD-ROM (ISO)
21:04:46 #1 Text 0 File Isodoc.cpp, Line 6410
Iso document burn settings
Determine maximum speed : FALSE
Simulate : TRUE
Write : TRUE
Finalize CD : FALSE
Multisession : TRUE
Multisession type: : Start multisession
Burning mode : TAO
Mode : 1
ISO Level : 1 (Max. of 11 = 8 + 3 char)
Character set : ISO 9660
Joliet : TRUE
Allow pathdepth more than 8 directories : TRUE
Allow more than 255 characters in path : TRUE
Write ISO9660 ;1 file extensions : TRUE
21:04:47 #2 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 3007
MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ-841S
SmoothLink activs
21:04:47 #3 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 525
ReadBuffer-Pipe got 81920KB of Memory
21:04:47 #4 Text 0 File Reader.cpp, Line 124
Reader running
21:04:47 #5 Text 0 File Writer.cpp, Line 113
Writer D: MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ-841S running
21:04:47 #6 ISO9660GEN -11 File Geniso.cpp, Line 3304
First writeable address = 0 (0x00000000)
21:04:47 #7 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 3301
Turn on Track-At-Once, using CD-R/RW media
21:04:48 #8 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 277
Last possible write address on media: 359844 ( 79:59.69)
Last address to be written: 318786 ( 70:52.36)
21:04:48 #9 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 289
Write in overburning mode: NO (enabled: CD)
21:04:48 #10 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 2568
Recorder: MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ-841S
21:04:48 #11 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 456
>>> Protocol of DlgWaitCD activities: <<<
=========================================
21:04:48 #12 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 846
Setup items (after recorder preparation)
0: TRM_DATA_MODE1 ()
2 indices, index0 (150) not provided
original disc pos #0 + 318787 (318787) = #318787/70:50.37
relocatable, disc pos for caching/writing not required/ required, no patch infos
-> TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048, config 0, wanted index0 0 blocks, length 318785 blocks [D: MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ-841S]
21:04:48 #13 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 1058
Prepare recorder [D: MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ-841S] for write in TAO
DAO infos:
==========
MCN: ""
TOCType: 0x00; Session Closed, disc not fixated
Tracks 1 to 1:
1: TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048/0x00, FilePos 0 307200 653182976, ISRC ""
DAO layout:
===========
__Start_|____Track_|_Idx_|_CtrlAdr_|_RecDep_______ ___
-150 | lead-in | 0 | 0x41 | 0x00
-150 | 1 | 0 | 0x41 | 0x00
0 | 1 | 1 | 0x41 | 0x00
318787 | lead-out | 1 | 0x41 | 0x00
21:04:48 #14 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 1126
Removed 2 run-out blocks from end of track 1. Length: 318787 -> 318785.
21:04:48 #15 Text 0 File SCSIPassThrough.cpp, Line 34
SPTILockVolume - completed successfully for FCTL_LOCK_VOLUME
21:04:48 #16 Phase 24 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1724
Caching of files started
21:04:49 #17 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 4129
Cache writing successful.
21:04:49 #18 Phase 25 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1724
Caching of files completed
21:04:49 #19 Phase 32 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1724
Simulation started at 24x (3 600 Ko/s)
21:04:49 #20 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 2669
Verifying disc position of item 0 (relocatable, disc pos, no patch infos, orig at #0): write at #0
21:04:49 #21 Text 0 File MMC.cpp, Line 21541
Set BUFE: SmoothLink -> ON
21:10:08 #22 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 228
all writers idle, stopping conversion
21:10:10 #23 Phase 33 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1724
Simulation completed successfully at 24x (3 600 Ko/s)
21:10:11 #24 Phase 36 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1724
Burn process started at 24x (3 600 Ko/s)
21:10:11 #25 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 2669
Verifying disc position of item 0 (relocatable, disc pos, no patch infos, orig at #0): write at #0
21:10:11 #26 Text 0 File MMC.cpp, Line 21541
Set BUFE: SmoothLink -> ON
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Sense Key: 0x03 (KEY_MEDIUM_ERROR)
Sense Code: 0x10
Sense Qual: 0x00
CDB Data: 0x2A 00 00 01 76 C0 00 00 20 00 00 00
Sense Area: 0xF1 00 03 00 01 74 5D 0A 00 13 00 00 10
Buffer x03390000: Len x10000
0x72 F1 87 E5 D3 3D 4A 96 F9 B0 73 83 D3 14 72 A1
0xF3 49 6E 93 44 25 04 6D E5 CE 44 5F 3E C6 79 47
0xDD DD EA 3A FD 71 4D 32 CB 35 F3 DF 4B 18 BD 7D
21:12:16 #28 CDR -1040 File Writer.cpp, Line 302
Illegal block size for command
D: MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ-841S
21:12:16 #29 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 228
all writers idle, stopping conversion
21:12:17 #30 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 222
conversion idle, stopping reader
21:12:17 #31 CDR -201 File WriterStatus.cpp, Line 200
Invalid write state
D: MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ-841S
21:12:17 #32 TRANSFER -18 File WriterStatus.cpp, Line 200
Could not perform EndTrack
21:12:17 #33 Text 0 File MMC.cpp, Line 16273
<MAT****ADVD-RAM UJ-841S > start Close Session
21:12:30 #34 SPTI -1040 File SCSIPassThrough.cpp, Line 306
CdRom0: SCSIStatus(x02) WinError(0) NeroError(-1040)
Sense Key: 0x03 (KEY_MEDIUM_ERROR)
Sense Code: 0x10
Sense Qual: 0x00
CDB Data: 0x00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Area: 0x71 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 13 00 00 10
21:12:30 #35 CDR -1040 File WriterStatus.cpp, Line 249
Illegal block size for command
D: MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ-841S
21:12:30 #36 TRANSFER -19 File WriterStatus.cpp, Line 249
Could not perform Fixation
21:12:30 #37 Text 0 File WriterStatus.cpp, Line 258
falling back to disc fixation
21:12:30 #38 Text 0 File MMC.cpp, Line 16273
<MAT****ADVD-RAM UJ-841S > start Close Session
21:12:30 #39 SPTI -1046 File SCSIPassThrough.cpp, Line 306
CdRom0: SCSIStatus(x02) WinError(0) NeroError(-1046)
Sense Key: 0x05 (KEY_ILLEGAL_REQUEST)
Sense Code: 0x30
Sense Qual: 0x05
CDB Data: 0x5B 01 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Area: 0x70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 AA 00 00 30 05
21:12:30 #40 CDR -1046 File WriterStatus.cpp, Line 249
Illegal disc
D: MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ-841S
21:12:30 #41 TRANSFER -19 File WriterStatus.cpp, Line 249
Could not perform Fixation
21:12:30 #42 Phase 38 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1724
Burn process failed at 24x (3 600 Ko/s)
Existing drivers:
File 'Drivers\PXHELP20.SYS': Ver=2.03.32a, size=20640 bytes, created 25/04/2005 11:03:00 (Prassi/Veritas driver for win 2K)
Registry Keys:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\AllocateCDROMs : 0 (Security Option)
So, thanks to you !
See you !
Romain

Hi
The error log doesnt provide any very useful information.
According to this error log the simulation was running correct but the burning process was not started.
In such case its very hard to say why it happens. Possibly the drive is damage and cannot calibrate the lens properly or you use not compatible medias.
The burning process depands also on the fiels and data which youwant to burn.
Some data, CD, DVDs are encrypted and its not possible to burn and to copy it.
In other case you could also try to burn the medias with lower speed and not with 24x.
But in worth case you the drive has a malfunction and you have to replace it ;(

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Material - Here You need to supply specific information
• Video - from what Camera - in what codec - If You can open a video file in QuickTime-Player then here open Inspector and read Video format/Codec: nnnnnnnn, size and frame rate - and tell us
• Audio - All audio I use is in .aiff 16-bit 48kHz (as from my miniDV Camera or 44.1 kHz as from Audio-CDs all other is converted to this. iTunes is even more problematic. Here I collect all needed audio into a new PlayList and this I BURN out as a standard Audio-CD (.aiff) (never .mp3) and in my movie projects I use the files from this CD.
Yours just trying and Guessing Bengt W

Iphoto won't let me burn 3.1Gb of photos on a DVD with 5.0GB available. Why not?

I'm trying to clean up my iphoto library and I finally got the pictures ready to burn and make some room, but I get a message that there is not enough room on the DVD for the pictures. Accoreding to the info on the selected photos they are 3.1 GB and there is 5.0GB available on the DVD, which shows it is full. Why is 5.0 GB not enough room for 3.1GB to burn?

Yes, most people dont have a clue about such professional media,...pro photographers and data archivers use it extensively for obvious reasons.   100 pack is usually aroud $40
As for HD, theyre all fragile, and without redundancy, anyone is in serious trouble of losing data. Its ALL about redundancy in case of ext. HD.
Here they are,
http://www.amazon.com/Taiyo-Yuden-JVC-Thermal-DVD/dp/B000NE9BE4/ref=sr_1_cc_3?s= aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1389293161&sr=1-3-catcorr&keywords=taiyo+Yuden+DVD%2BR
They can also be found in Ebay.... stick with DVD+R not -R since +R has several design advantages over -R
True longevity, long-term professional data protection. The Gold and Platinum standard
When it comes to long-term data protection, there is optical and there is NOTHING else, period. While modern notebooks and macbooks have forgone, for the most part internal optical DVD/CD readers/writers, this is most entirely due to the fact that commercial videos and movies have gone to online rentals and Itunes purchases, additionally nearly all software now is online purchase and download. However external USB DVD burners and readers are going nowhere anytime in the foreseeable future,... and until a new optical technology emerges for data preservation, DVD writers aren’t going anywhere.
Online media and software however has no bearing or impact on the fact that the fragile nature of ferromagnetic storage has not gotten any better now than it was 20 years ago aside from improved production specifications in physical hard drive builds. There are many that would point out in incorrect conjecture that “optical is a dying or dead medium”, such people don’t know what they're talking about and are directing their comments at optical based movies and software, not data archiving and protection which in fact is growing in scope, not declining.
While low grade consumer DVD blank media has a life between 8-15 years best case, professional DVD blank media has both a different standard of manufacture and chemically a different read/write layer that has serious professional longevity with 19 years real world testing and age-stress progression testing proving that at the very minimum, 60 years viable protection if stored correctly and in some patented mfg. standards, 100+ years data retention and preservation. While "gold" disks have been superceeded by even better technology manufacted disks, this is still a term of reference as implying professional DVD blank media.
In fact a new breed of disks that use a higher powered write-laser are commercially available and have a rated life of 1000 years and are referred to as M-DISK. Governments, military, and professional businesses have much time and money invested in high-importance data storage on optical media out of necessity given the extremely fragile nature of ferromagnetic storage. Such new optical technology creates permanent pits in the disk surface, which are not affected by light like consumer DVD media which uses a organic dye layer to write and read from of the data.
While DVD media are only 4.7GB single layer in scope, and cannot store massive amounts of data, not even by the 100-pack, most vitally important priority data people own are picture collections, texts, audio, and other small scale media. In such an evaluation, high priority data is necessitated out of prudence, to be written to professional archival grade DVD media, not low-grade consumer DVD blanks. Such professional DVD blank media is only roughly 30% more expensive than low grade consumer DVD blank media.
As for HD:
Hard Drive Warning (all makes and models)
Ironically but logical, new hard drives are far more fragile than one that has been working for several months or a couple years. So beware in your thinking that a new hard drive translates into “extremely reliable”!
Hard drives suffer from high rates of what has been termed "infant mortality". Essentially this means new drives have their highest likelihood of failing in the first few months of usage. This is because of very minor manufacturing defects or HD platter balancing, or head and armature geometry being less than perfect; and this is not immediately obvious and can quickly manifest itself once the drive is put to work.
Hard drives that survive the first few months of use without failing are likely to remain healthy for a number of years.
Generally HD are highly prone to death or corruption for a few months, then work fine for a few years, then spike in mortality starting at 3-4 years and certainly should be considered end-of-life at 5-7+ years even if still working well. Drives written to once and stored away have the highest risk of data corruption due to not being read/written to on a regular basis. Rotate older working HD into low-risk use.
The implication of this is that you should not trust a new hard drive completely (really never completely!) until it has been working perfectly for several months.
Given the second law of thermodynamics, any and all current mfg. HD will, under perfect storage conditions tend themselves to depolarization and a point will be reached, even if the HD mechanism is perfect, that the ferromagnetic read/write surface of the platter inside the HD will entropy to the point of no viable return for data extraction. HD life varies, but barring mechanical failure, 3-8 years typically.
Hard drive failure and handling
The air cushion of air between the platter surface and the head is microscopic, as small as 3 nanometers, meaning bumps, jarring while in operation can cause head crash, scraping off magnetic particles causing internal havoc to the write surface and throwing particles thru the hard drive.
Hard drives are fragile in general, regardless, ... in specific while running hard drives are extremely fragile.
PDF: Bare hard drive handling generic instructions
hard drive moving parts
Some of the common reasons for hard drives to fail:
Infant mortality (due to mfg. defect / build tolerances)
Bad parking   (head impact)
Sudden impact   (hard drive jarred during operation, heads can bounce)
Electrical surge   (fries the controller board, possibly also causing heads to write the wrong data)
Bearing / Motor failure   (spindle bearings or motors wear during any and all use, eventually leading to HD failure)
Board failure   (controller board failure on bottom of HD)
Bad Sectors   (magnetic areas of the platter may become faulty)
General hard drive failure

Painfully slow DVD burning process with Toast .Tips welcome.

Just new to Mac,, and I am going crazy trying to burn/copy a DVD (legally). I do see that it is burning anywhere from 1-3 times rate (no wonder).I give instructions to do it on auto. And if I bring in a file to burn, which is the best type to import to Toast to burn(and less loss of quality)? Should I, or can I replace (upgrade) my 8 X drive (Matshutita?). Any programs (besides Toast)that will handle burning process faster? I used to grab an mpeg file on my PC, and have it burned within 25 minutes tops with TMPGenc for example. I don't think I can handle the slowness.

Even if you have a fully comliant MPEG-2 source, say EYE TV or a VOB file you still have to "author" the DVD with Toast (or DVD Studio Pro for $1000) to build the final DVD in the right format with VIDEO_TS folder, IFO and BUP files that guide the player. Use Toast. Most of the time a compliant MPEG-2 will not re-encode so the process is quite fast. Set the encoding option to "Never". If it needs to be re-encoded it will do that despite the "Never".
Waste of time paying anything to put a new DVD drive in an iMac. Leave it alone and get an external LaCie firewire as I advised already. The authoring time has zero to do with the drive since all the encoding is done by the mac and then you burn the final image to a DVD. A 1X or 20X won't affect the speed.
I just think the internal drives , iMac, MacBook Pro are slow and pokey and a hassle to use and $100-$150 is worth the expense. The D2 drives come with a full version of Toast as well or they did when I bought mine.

Burn process not completely done, messing up dvd playback

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