Encore "Encode failed" randomly

Two full days (and partly nights) trying everything to solve this problem, reading every single topic about that on the forum... I thought I'd better ask a question to the community before throwing my PC through the window...
Basically here is the history of my problem :
I created an Encore project, containing 58 videos, organized in 14 menus.
I checked the project : no errors.
I tried to build an iso image : everything went well for 10 minutes, and all of a sudden Encore crashed.
I understood that this comes from the transcoding of the videos and that I had to do it manually.
As this point you should know that my videos are created in Premiere Pro CC, encoded (through "Export/Media") with Adobe Media Encoder with the MPEG-DVD format and PAL-DV pressets. When I imported them first in Encore CS6, as timelines, the video asset (MPEG video, m2v format) and the audio asset (wav audio, wav format) have a "don't transcode" status.
I right click on each individual asset, modify the transcode settings to "automatic", and ask for "trancode now".
And here is the issue : sometimes it would transcode, and sometimes NOT ! Just randomly...
At the end, as you can expect, I have 1/3rd of my assets trancoded and 2/3rd not !!! Frustrating................
I tried the following :
Edit / preference / general / transcode asset using adobe media encoder application -----> doesn't solve my problem
Create a new projet, import only one timeline and try to transcode -------> sometimes it would transcode (then I can manually locate transcoded file in my usual projet by right click on the asset / locate the trancoded file), but sometime not....... (I told you in the title, this is random...)
Encode with Adobe Media Encoder with an .avi and try the all process again -----> sometimes it would transcode, sometimes not (but still I miss transcoded time lines)
Checked the titles for length issues, special character issues, etc. -------> found no particular issue (at least comparing the files, I see no explanation of the randomness of the problem)
Right click / Run as administrator ------> doesn't solve my problem
Free space in my C driver (now I have 27GB of free space, I guess it's enought for Encore to work, right ?)
... and a lot of other stuff, which I won't list here...
AND I STILL HAVE HALF OF MY ASSETS UNTRANSCODED !!!!
Technical details
.m2v file (generated by Adobe Media Encoder with MPEG-DVD format and PAL-DV pressets) : 720*576, 25 frames/sec.
.wav file (generated by Adobe Media Encoder with MPEG-DVD format and PAL-DV pressets): 1536 kbps
the original material is mostly .MOD files, but also .avi (it should have no influence because from two .MOD files originated videos, one would transcode and the other not)
PC DELL Precision M4400
Intel core Duo CPU T9600 @2.8GHz
8GB RAM
Windows seven professional
You see, it is saturday night, 9 P.M. I've been in front of my PC for more that two days now with no success. I just surrender at this point and hope that one of you guys can find a solution for me. And to be honnest, I hope that this is just a stupid mistake from my side, this would mean that I won't have to spend again hours on this topic.
Looking forward to hear from you all !!!
Jacques

As Richard has explained, when you had your assets as "do not transcode," you should have left them alone. with the exception that they might fill the disk up, but none of the errors you have had point to that.
Although normally, you'd set the project format to a3c audio, and the wav files would show "untranscoded."
You should always run Encore "as administrator." It may have nothing to do with the errors you are seeing, but it invites odd problems. Just run as administrator and take that off the table.
The specific error you are getting has most often been due to filename length. Max is 80 characters including spaces. I can't imagine after the troubleshooting you've done that they are this long, but who knows! Yes, special characters etc can be a problem. I don't recall the issue, but I would also look at file path length/depth.
Look also for gaps in any of the Premiere sequences.
> Free space in my C driver (now I have 27GB of free space, I guess it's enought for Encore to work, right ?
No. Temporary files/caches/transcoded files can quickly swell things. Do you have a separate drive for the video files, etc?

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I've been sifting through all these posts but I can't seem to find help for this.
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I tried run as administrator but it did nothing. I'm running Win 7, not xp on this computer.
I gave 805 free gb left on my hd, so it's not a drive problem.
Where can I copy the hardware details to show you?
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"Encode Failed" Error HELP ASAP

No matter what I try, how short I make the file name, even taking the title out, I STILL get the error message "Encode failed" when I am trying to Build my project. I have 2 movie files I HAVE to get onto a DVD tonight or tomorrow morning at the latest. I will have a menu file I would perfer to use, but if not i'm fine with the 2 videos just playing right after eachother. It is for a permiere and I HAVE to test a DVD (the only format they will accept) at the small theater.
HELLLLLLP!!!!
I am using Encore CS4 for the first time so PLEASE dumb it down for me Thanks
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More on Roxio, and a different link in case the one Stan posted has gone dead as companies "prune" old stuff
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1309029
http://corel.force.com/roxio/articles/en_US/Master_Article/000012592-PX-Engine-Description -and-Download

Encode Failed exporting to DVD but not Blu-Ray

I'm using Dynamic Link and tried both pushing from PPro and pulling from Encore, when building DVD I get Encode Failed, but when building Blu-Ray no problems. I really need a DVD version of this, any ideas?

Did you transcode before building? If not, try that.
If that does not work, export from Premiere as MPEG2-DVD, and import the resulting m2v/wav files as timeline. In other words, skip the dynamic link since you are having a problem.
Yes, you will have to calculate the bitrate. If you are able to transcode the dynamic link, but not to build, you can look at the properties of the transcoded file, and match that on export from Premiere. Or use a bitrate calculator, such as:
http://dvd-hq.info/bitrate_calculator.php

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