Burning iDVD

When I burn a disk the slide show with sound plans. I added two video clips with sound, but the sound does not play. It plays when I run the iDVD I created, but when I burn it there sound on the slide show, but no sound on the two video clips. How can I burn a disk that has the sound?

We take it bit by bit
hello I built a slideshow in iDVD but when I put it into my DVD player on my pc it doesnt recognise it.
Use of cheap DVDs
Burn speed not reduced to x4
use to give this
• I use Verbatim DVD-R
• I set down burn speed to x4
• I secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on start-up hard disk
Also when I open the files they come up as TS?? files
One can burn DVDs into two types. Data-DVDs and Video-DVDs
Video-DVDs contain (and must so) at least two folders
• Audio_TS (Empty - but must be hare)
• Video_TS
And one more query - when I play the DVD on my mac book pro - the image isnt as clear as I thought it would be or as clear as it is when I play back when building the slideshow in iDVD, before the burn
This can be two things
• DVDs can only do SF-video - There are no HD-versions at all !
So maximum quality is as on old CRT-TVs - Can't be better - Your Mac screen is 5 to 10 times better.
• Something got wrong - but then Your result are severely pixelated and result of near to no use.
Does this make sense
Yes
Yours Bengt W

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HT1583 sound stops part way through on burned idvd, but ok on computer edit.

Can anyone help, for the first time having a problem with a burned idvd which the sound stops part way through. If sound turned right up on TV muffled sound
is there. Edited on computer and all works fine with full sound right the way through, only trouble is on the disc. Have tried many discs, so does not appear to
be disc failure.
Appreciate any comments please

Hi
FIRST OF ALL - THE MAJOR ADVICE in this forum EVER !
In iDVD - Before Burning the DVD DO !
Save as a DiskImage
Double click on this .img icon
test the new Pseudo DVD (looks like a white hard disk) with DVD-tool
THEN
• DVD Brand - matters
• DVD type used - matters
• BURN SPEED - matters
• Audio file format - matters
WHAT did You use
I only use
- Verbatim
- DVD-R SL
- x2 max x4 - Best / High - IS NOT BEST
- .aiff - NO .mp3, .wma etc alient formats - from iTune EXPORTED OUT as .aiff ONLY
Yours Bengt W

Problem burning iDVD projects using external LaCie burner

I recently purchased a LaCie DL d2 DVD RW with LightScribe 16x from the LaCie company (12/07/2007). The LaCie burner is connnected via Firewire to my iMac. The iMac is a little over a year old and I am running Mac OS X (ver. 10.4.11).
The primary reason for my purchase was that I wished to create/burn iDVD projects on my iMac computer. The reason that I needed this product was due to the fact that, when I purchased my iMac, I made an error in judgement , and ordered it with a combo rather than a SuperDrive. So, while I am able to create iDVD projects and iMovies, I am unable to burn DVDs with of projects on the Combo Drive that came with the computer.
Thus far, however, I have not been able to burn a DVD with any of my iDVD projects. I am running iDVD 6 (ver. 6.04). When I attempt to “burn” a DVD disk the “Creating your DVD menu” appears. When I put in a blank DVD+RW 4x 4/7GB, it appears to go through the process (Prepare,,, Process Menus... Process Slideshows... Process Movies and Burn procedures). The DVD is then ejected and a message says that it is done and is “cleaning up.” However, that message never leaves the screen and when I click on the “Cancel” button, nothing happens. The iDVD application seems to lock up and I have to do a “force quit.”
I have tried this with three different projects, all with the same result. When I place the supposed “burned” DVD in the Combo Drive, it spins for a while and then kicks the DVD diskn out.
I have also tried launching Toast Titanium 7 (software that came with the LaCie burner). However, I see no place where I can “drag & drop” an iDVD project to the “drop zone.’ The closest thing seams to be “movies.” However, when I select that mode and go to my iDVD folder, all of the files are “grayed out.”
Can anyone help me out? Should I be able to burn iDVD projects with this unit? If so, what am I doing wrong.
Thanks for any help/advice that anyone can provide.
Jeff White

open up Toast 7, click on Video tab, click on Image File and drag your img. file to Toast.
John,
That's not correct. In Toast 7 you must use the Copy tab to burn a disk image to writable media. See page 94 of the Toast 7 manual.
(The procedure is slightly different for Toast 6 and Toast 8 but always involves using 'Copy')

Burning iDVD projects with external LaCie burner

I recently purchased a LaCie DL d2 DVD RW with LightScribe 16x from LaCie (12/07/2007). The primary reason for my purchase was that I wished to create/burn iDVD projects on my iMac computer. The reason that I needed this product was due to the fact that, when I purchased my iMac, I made an error and ordered the iMac with a combo rather than SuperDrive. So, while I am able to create iDVD projects and iMovies, I am unable to burn DVDs with my project.
Thus far, however, I have not been able to burn a DVD with any of my products. When I attempt a “burn” the Creating your DVD menu appears and when I put in a blank DVD+RW 4x 4/7GB, it goes through the process (Prepare,,, Process Menus... Process Slideshows... Process Movies and Burn procedures). The DVD is then ejected and a message says its done and is “cleaning up.” However, that message never leaves the screen and when I click on the “Cancel” button, nothing happens. The iDVD application seems to lock up and I have to do a “force quit.”
I have tried this with three different project, all with the same result. When I place the supposed “burn” DVD in the Combo Drive, it spins for a while and kicks the DVD out.
I have also tried launching Toast Titanium (software that came with the LaCie burner). However, I see no place where I can “drag & drop” a iDVD product to the “drop zone.’
Can you help me out. Should I be able to burn iDVD projects with this unit? If so, what am I doing wrong.
Thanks for any help that you can provide.
Jeff White

"Should I be able to burn iDVD projects with _*this unit?*_"
Which "model" & "generation" G5 iMac do you have?
Need this info so that the knowledgeable users can provide you with the proper troubleshooting solution(s).
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301724-en How to identify your iMac
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh355.html Getting information about your computer
You can have this info displayed on the bottom of every post by going to 'My Settings' which is located in the column on the right under your name, and filling in the information asked for.
Thank you
Have you contacted LaCie Support?

Using OS X 10.8.4. Installed iLife 11 to get iDVD. iMovie ready to burn through iDVD. Attempted burn. iDVD says burn is complete. Burn lines are on DVD R. Same disk cannot be read and is considered blank by computer and DVD player. How do I burn properly?

Using OS X 10.8.4. Installed iLife 11 and got iDVD. iMovie ready in iDVD. Attempted burn. iDVD says burn is complete. Burn lines are on DVD+R. Same disk cannot be read and is considered blank by computer and DVD player. How do I burn properly?

Hello TchrDi,
I suggest this article named Archived - iDVD: Troubleshooting issues with burning discs found here http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1583.
It is pretty lengthy, but also pretty thorough.
Cheers,
Sterling

New - Burning iDVD projects using External Lacie Drive

My current eMac only has DVD-R capable drive and I a Lacie Firewire DVD External Drive with ability to burn DVD Double Layer.
Question how do I get iDVD to use external drive instead of internal drive to burn iDVD Projects?
Current option I can come up with is to save projects as a finished DIsc Image and then burn finished project with the Lacie.
Open to any help...
Thanks

Hello Cseijisan,
does your burner show correctly in System Profiler? If so iDVD should recognize it.
When you hit burn, iDVD should give you a little drop-down menu where you can choose your burner.
Current option I can come up with is to save projects as a finished DIsc Image and then burn finished project with the Lacie.
That is in any case a recommended procedure. Not only can you preview your DVD that way before actually burning, but it also helps eliminating burn errors, which might result from iDVDs inability to let you control the burn speed. Disk Utility or Toast are much more reliable burn apps.
hope this helps
mish

How do i burn idvd projects in a dvd format to an external hard disk

I have an iDVD project but it is too big to burn to a dvd (11GB!) so I was wondering if I can save the proejct like a dvd onto my External Hard Disk. This is really urgent and important for a school project.
Thanks in advance.

iDVD does not care about file size (it compresses a movie file by about 4:1 o the standard mpeg2 format), only about length.
A standard DVD will hold up to 120 minutes of video, but this includes titles, transitions etc.
iDVD encoding settings:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/11417.html
Short version:
Best Performance is for videos of up to 60 minutes
Best Quality is for videos of up to 120 minutes
Professional Quality is also for up to 120 minutes but even higher quality (and takes much longer)
That was for single-layer DVDs. Double these numbers for dual-layer DVDs.
Professional Quality: The Professional Quality option uses advanced two-pass technology to encode your video (The first pass determines which parts of the movie can be given greater compresson without quality loss and which parts can’t. The second pass then encodes those different parts accordingly) , resulting in the best quality of video possible on your burned DVD. You can select this option regardless of your project’s duration (up to 2 hours of video for a single-layer disc and 4 hours for a double-layer disc). Because Professional Quality encoding is time-consuming (requiring about twice as much time to encode a project as the High Quality option, for example) choose it only if you are not concerned about the time taken.
In both cases the maximum length includes titles, transitions and effects etc. Allow about 15 minutes for these.
You can use the amount of video in your project as a rough determination of which method to choose. If your project has an hour or less of video (for a single-layer disc), choose Best Performance. If it has between 1 and 2 hours of video (for a single-layer disc), choose High Quality. If you want the best possible encoding quality for projects that are up to 2 hours (for a single-layer disc), choose Professional Quality. This option takes about twice as long as the High Quality option, so select it only if time is not an issue for you.
Use the Capacity meter in the Project Info window (choose Project > Project Info) to determine how many minutes of video your project contains.
NOTE: With the Best Performance setting, you can turn background encoding off by choosing Advanced > “Encode in Background.” The checkmark is removed to show it’s no longer selected. Turning off background encoding can help performance if your system seems sluggish.
And whilst checking these settings in iDVD Preferences, make sure that the settings for NTSC/PAL and DV/DV Widescreen are also what you want.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1502?viewlocale=en_US

My still photos look blurry on burned iDvds

I've been trying to make a DVD of still photos. My DVD from iDVD is blurry when viewed. It's blurry wether I look at it on a TV or the computer, so it's not a screen quality issue. My photos are nice and clear on iDVD when making the disc, but the disc quality is horrible. Looking at the forums it seems that I'm not the only one with this issue, but all the suggestions either don't make sense to me or I can't make them work. It seems as though some have had success making an iMovie and then making a .mov file in HD, then dragging it into iDVD. I can't drag the .mov file into iDVD. I also cannot burn the .mov file to disc. I'm starting to hate Apple for telling me how intuitive my computer is. If it was so intuitive a computer dummy like me could figure it out. Very frustrated...

Hi
I think that this have several reasons
• No DVD can do the same quality as Your Mac Screen - NON. DVD is as standard SD-video and can not be any better.
• Assemble SlideShows in iMovie'08 or 09 or 11 then Send to iDVD - will make things even worse
a. iMovie'08 or 09 or 11 - can only deliver every second line to iDVD resulting in 50% loss
b. Share to iDVD - makes iMovie to render and so bad - Better is to Share to Media Browser and from iDVD import from it's Media Browser - iDVD renders so much better
So to get best quality DVD is not the way - Blu-Ray or photos on a memory stick can be so much better or even projected directly from the Mac - will give best quality possibly
To get an as good DVD as possibly
• Use a program that can do SlideShows and export them without any loss eg
◊ iMovie up to HD6 (previous versions)
◊ FinalCut any version
◊ FotoMagico™
are what I use.
I let iDVD do the rendering
I use Verbatim DVD-R disks
I set down burn speed to x4 (less burn errors and DVD works on more Players)
Yours Bengt W

Ken Burns effect flickering in burned idvd

I have put together a movie in imovie6 and included still photos. The burned dvd looks fine except for the photos where i used the Ken Burns effect. What is causing this?

Movie HD 6.0.3 renders jaggy and flickery still images when sending them to tape or iDVD
And by NOT using Share/Export to iDVD - from within iMovie - but instead
• Close iMovie
• Import iMovie project (icon with a Star on it) into iDVD and iMovie can not render
resulting in a much better result when iDVD does this.
If used Share/Export to iDVD - then the photos in the iMovie project NEEDS TO be
re-imported and re-edited into place.
The old one is harmed so they need to be replaced.
Yours Bengt W

TS2289 Audio in iMovie 11 files but missing in sections when shared to iDVD. The movie and audio plays fine in iMovie but my burned iDVD movie is missing some audio .

I imported a movie into iMovie 11 from a Canon Vixia HFR 300 SD card with no problem. I have a new iMac running OsX 18.8.4 I think. I added chapter markers and shared it with iDVD. And burned it to a DVD. Towards the end of this 30 minute movie the sound just stops. I do remember some screen came up when I wanted to burn DVD that said something was wrong with files but I couldn't figure what do to fix it and allowed me to continue. Any ideas?

Hi
Either the problem is in iMovie or in iDVD
two notes
No Audio in iMovie
Most common origin is use of audio from iTunes.
Work around -
• Select needed audio to one new playlist
• Copy out this as an Audio-CD .aiff (not .mp3)
• Use this in the movie-project
Other origins are
1. strange / alient file formats as -
• .mp3, .avi, .wmv etc
• Convert them into .aiff 48kHz 16-bit and use this
2. the Mac is set wrongly in regard of midi -
• Close iMovie and other programs
• Start GarageBand
• Make a new GB-project and play some notes
• Close GB and Save
• Now try iMovie again
3. No audio when playback in iMovie 1 to HD 6.
a. in iMovie pref. - deselect ” Playback via Camera”
b. in System preferences - see that Audio out is not set to zero. Mine often does this
without me knowing why.
4. iMovie’08 & 09 & 11
• Toggle audio-scimming by cmd-K
Stuttering audio and video
1. FileVault is ON - Turn it off
2. More than 50 audio files in a movie-project
Mix down to one audio clip
3. Project is stored on one (USB) external hard disk - should be a FireWire one
4. the External hard disk is not Mac OS Extended formatted - but
UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange and this will not work for Video.
5. To little free space on internal boot hard disk.
I go for a minimum of 25Gb free space when project is imported and edited and this goes for
4x3 SD Video. For 16x9 HD my guess would be about 5 times more at least.
Neither Mac OS, iMovie or iDVD can address any other hard disk than the boot drive for it’s
scratch files. (Unlike Final Cut Express/Pro where You select scratch disk/s)
6. Network storage - DOESN’T WORK
No audio on DVD disc.
Most common origin.
1. Imported audio from iTunes.
• In iTunes copy out as an Audio-CD .aiff (Same as played on standard Stereo CD - no .mp3)
• Use this in Your movie project
2. Low - Free Space on Start-up/Boot/Internal/Mac OS Hard disk makes it hard for iMovie to work as intended.
Down to 1.3 GB and it doesn’t work - especially audio don’t migrate over to Media Browser
(iM’08 & 09)
3. Material in iMovie’08 & 09 - Shared to Media Browser and here selected as Large
large.m4v. It silenced out this project in iDVD. By making a slight alteration - provoking it to ask for a new Share/Publish to Media Browser and here selecting 640x480 - and audio was back when a new iDVD project was created including this movie.
Minuscular - - 176x144
Mobile - - - - - 480x360
Medium - - - - 640x480
Large - - - - - - 720x540 960x540
HD - - - - - - - - 1280x720
4. Strange audio formats like .mp3, .avi etc.
• Change them to .aiff. Use an audio editor like Audacity (free)
5. Main audio is set to off in System Preferences - Does this by it self - Don’t know why
Cheque Audio-Out resp. Audio-In
6. Ed Hanna
Had the same problem; some Googling around gave me a kludgy, but effective fix
Downgrade Perian from recent versions back to version 1.0.
That worked for me, and so far I haven't encountered any deficiencies — except it takes more advanced versions of Perian to enable QuickTime to handle subtitles in .srt format — that I have noticed.
7. GarageBand fix.
In this set audio to 44.1 kHz (Klaus1 suggestion)
(if this don’t work try 48 kHz - me guessing)
Before burning the DVD.
• Do a DiskImage (File menu and down)
• Double click on the .img file
• Test it with Apple DVD-player
If it’s OK then make Your DVD.
Burn at x1 speed.... (or x4)
• In iDVD 08 - or - 09
• Burn from DiskImage with Apple’s Disk Utilities application
•OR burn with Roxio Toast™ if You got it
Yours Bengt W

Disc burned Idvd not working

I have this 22gb movie that i exported using FInal cut with standard quicktime movie. IT is about 2 and half hours long. I switched my idvd settings to DL DVD but the dvd doesnt play on anything. Not my mac, not my dvd player, not my xbox or wii. What settings should i use to fix this? Should i export the movie to Compressor and then to idvd?

Sorry
Think You missunderstod the reply
Yes the disk image played on DVD player
I used a 2x record speed and still no good
DVD DiskImage - can ONLY play on Your Mac
It is NO physical DVD disk - but an icon on Your Desktop e.g.
You make it in iDVD by selecting
resulting in an icon - Movie.img
and when You click on it it opens as a Simulated DVD (or most often looks like an extra Hard Disk)
Movie
and It has NO Burn speed as it's stored on Your Hard Disk
In this You will find (as on any standard Video-DVD)
Play it with DVD-player tool
If it plays OK with DVD-player tool - burn it by using Disk Util tool and here set burn speed to x2
Do not insert any DVD until You are asked to do so - else You wind up with a Data-DVD - and not a Video-DVD as You would like it to be.
Yours Bengt W

Burning iDVD project

I usually burn before I go to bed, and then it is done in the morning. I did this last night, but it wasn't finished in the morning. Th eencoding seemed to be in the same spot.
What did I do wrong here?
Thanks
Gerry

I haven't saved as disk image yet. I'm going to try that on my next project.
My last project was about an hour of mostly video clips. I burned it and it took about 4 hours.
I then realized that I needed to make additional minor changes. The length didn't change much. Then I burned it again, and it still isn't finished burning. This is 14 hours later.
I do notice that it looks like its stuck on the menu page (idvd) that I chose.
Could that be the problem?
Thanks
Gerry

IBook G4 + Lacie D2 will not burn iDVD movies?

I have a new ibook G4 with an external Lacie D2; and I can't get any of my iDVD projects to burn. I get mulitplexor errors. So I did as the posts say, and cleared my cache via OnyX, Disk Utility App to repair permissions. Downloaded the latest Lacie drivers. It will burn via Toast 6 (only data DVD). But every time I try with iDVD it fails. Disc images port out correctly with iDVD, but those files will not burn to DVD via Toast and work on my set top DVD player? Any help? Thanks ahead of time!
LUKE
ibook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

I, too, have not been able to successfully burn a DVD through any Apple application, including Disk Utility and Backup. The only thing that's worked for me is to save my iDVD project as a disk image, and then burn the DVD using Toast. It takes longer, but at least I'm not wasting DVDs.

Burned iDVD project and the slideshow is messed up.

I made a project and played it on my computer to preview before it was burned and it was fine so I burned it. But when I put it in my DVD player and my Vaio, the slideshow portion of the DVD is messed up. Plus when I put it in my Mac it doesnt even play. There is a green screen where the transition WOULD have been, then one of the pictures comes up, green screen, then another picture, etc. So instead of my transition I have a green screen.
Also, this is the 2nd DVD I've burned. I changed the transition in the 1st one to see if that would solve the problem but my 2nd one is messed up too. On the first DVD I get weird iDVD images (icons, theme stuff, etc) that pop up randomly on the picture as the transition starts.
What's up with this?

Before going any further, give this basic remedy a try. Quit iDVD and delete your iDVD preferences. To do this, go to your username> library> preferences> com.apple.idvd.plist. Delete this file. Then reopen iDVD; it will create a new preference file with all of the default settings.
Do a verify and repair of permissions using Disk Utility.
As far as the disk image, I made one but my computer wont even play it.
Did you use your computer's DVD player? If you cannot find the player, use Spotlight to locate it. Look for "DVD player".
To view a disk image, first double-click on the icon for your project. Then open your DVD player by double-clicking on the icon in the applications folder. Another way to view the disc image is to open DVD Player in your Applications folder, then use its Open command to select your disc image.
Besides, I burned the disk image to a DVD and its just a file, not a playable DVD.
If the disk image does not play properly on your computer's DVD player, then the burned disk also will not work.
Did you use Disk Utility to burn the disk? A DVD that is burned via the Finder will not work on a standard DVD player.
For troubleshooting purposes, try to create a project using another account. Create the disk image, and see if you can get it to play. If things work correctly, then the problem lies within your account. If it persists, you might have to do a reinstall of iDVD.
I hope this helps.
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27' imac wont recognise blank dvd r cd to burn idvd movie too.

hi anyone come accross this or have a solution
comp wont recognise a new blank disk to record too in either I DVD or I tunes, i have burnt one of my I dvd movies once before (the only time the burner has been used) and it will read that disk, i put in 6 other disks and they wont read either. comp is under two years old and stock as the day it got to me. surely it cant have failed already? i updated the system to the current osx system to try solve problem and looked at drive option settings all good there.
love some help

Hi
• a cleaning CD/DVD ?
My general (old) list
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows.*
• Delete iDVD pref file - *or rather start a new user/account* - log into this and re-try
iDVD pref file resides.
Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and is named. com.apple.iDVD.plist
While iDVD is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iDVD.
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy. Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Program miss-match. iDVD 5.0.2, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK - DON’T work under Leopard
• Program miss-match. iDVD 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match. iDVD’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• iDVD (08) v7 Locate theme folder. Move out iDVD1, iDVD 2 and eventually iDVD4 folders to desktop - re-try
• Try a Cleaning CD/DVD that cleans the laser lens on the DVD burner/player
iDVD 6.0.4 and iDVD 7.0.1 are compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Last resort. from Craig. Solved the problem!! Finally!!
I deleted every iDVD application and folder from my boot drive,
emptied the trash and then installed iDVD 08 using the customize option
and I am up and running.
If You do a re-install be sure to get rid of all iDVD old parts AND then EMPTY the Trash-basket !
iDVD updated ?
Apple Codec updated ?
Start a New Clean project - or delete project assets
No of Colors - must be set to millions
Yours Bengt W

When Burning IDVD hangs at Encoding Audio

I have a 2 GHz PowerPC G5 iMac
1.5 GB DDR SDRAM
SuperDrive - Double Layer dvds
This is my first time using IDVD - I have a 2 hour movie that I am trying to burn.
It hangs and gives me the multicolored wheel when it is trying to encode the music during the burn process. It took about 5 hours to get to the point that it is now, and then an extra 3 since the multicolored wheel has been up. I have read other posts and some say, let it spin, and eventually it will finish. But I am not sure if they mean when the multicolored wheel is showing. Does anyone know what I need to do? I am desperate for HELP!!

Strange how I can't edit my post now even though it's only been half an hour...
I checked on the progress of the burn and the audio was finally encoded after about five to ten minutes of the "spinning lollipop". It said it was encoding the audio and seemed to hang, but when I went back to check on it the DVD was already burned. I looked for other advice on these boards and people recommend taking the MOV file from your iMovie project and dumping that directly into iDVD instead of exporting from iMovie to iDVD. To do that, control-click (or right-click) on your iMovie project icon in the Finder. Go to Shared Movies > iDVD and find the MOV file in that folder.
Many people have had this problem with iDVD hanging at the "Encoding Audio" stage, but if you leave it long enough, it will eventually finish. I think it's just a bug with the progress bar.
Good luck.
P.S. the movie that I was burning is only about 7 minutes long. I had first tried burning it from my PowerMac G4 but moved to an iMac G5 for my final attempt at burning and it now works. The first time around on the G4 the audio never finished encoding but after moving the iDVD project (and all the support files), it burned the DVD without any problems.

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