Help.....IDvd Burning is Stuck at encoding audio

Buring idvd and its stuck at encoding audio. - what should I do???? Afte spending so much time on this.
Very dissapointing its taking very long much longer that idvd4. Purchase upgrade for improvement not for headaches.

I'm not near my Mac right now, but I think its in the project info window. I believe it comes up when you 1st ship your movie to iDVD. There is a a drop down style menu with 2 choices. I do not know if you can change this setting once you are past it. You may have to re-enter iDVD through iMovie and start over.

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    Hi everyone, i was wondering if someone could help me with a problem i'm having with idvd. Everytime (6 times so far) my dvd is encoding the video it will suddenly freeze just before it starts audio encoding. What does this mean and is there any way to prevent it?

    This question is frequently asked!
    iDVD is probably not 'hanging'. Disregard any messages that iDVD is not responding. It is. Do not force quit.
    Encoding audio is the slowest part of rendering, and can take many hours. Great patience, even an intermittent alternative hobby, is called for.
    Make sure no other application is running, make sure you have not set the hard disk to go to sleep and that the screen saver will not come on. Leave it overnight, or have a 36 hole game of golf.
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    If it takes several hours, then I would suggest the following workaround - export your iMovie as a Quicktime movie using either "Full Quality" or "expert setting". Then import it into a new iMovie project, add chapters - if any, then export to iDVD. The Encoding Audio may occur but only for a few minutes.
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  • Can't burn iMovie to iDVD (not responding) - after "Encoding Audio"

    Hello,
    I have a similar post in the iDVD board, but thought someone in this section may be able to help as well.
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    It goes through the "encoding menus" and videos, but gets stuck on "Encoding Audio" and in my Force Quit window says (Not Responding). I have almost 12 GB free on my PowerBook G4 and successfully burned a test DVD of this last week before completion (when I only had 7 free GB - I also added on another 2 minutes since then)...
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    Chris, what I've found is that patience is the key here. You really can't count on the progress bar to let you know how far along in the process you are. I've run into the same problem as you. When the burn symbol stops spinning and you get the beachball/lollipop don't rush right off to force quit. Just because the force quit menu shows that iDVD is NOT RESPONDING does not mean that all is lost. What made me realize that iDVD was still working was the Activity Monitor located in your Utilities folder under applications (applications/utilities/activity monitor).
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  • IDVD 6 Encoding Audio....

    I've spent most of this week trying to burn my iMovie film to DVD, and like many people on this forum, and other areas of the internet, I'm unable to do so with iDVD 'locking up' at the encoding audio stage.
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    If you use google you will see that many people have the same issue, as on this forum. Some people have speculated its MP3, or other audio issues on the iMovie soundtrack, but until someone can say and publish definitively what it is I (and many other) apple users are unable to burn their DVD's.
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    Its a bug, and the sooner a patch is released, the better we will all be.
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    SharedLibs: num = 181, resident = 42.6M code, 4.83M data, 6.76M LinkEdit
    MemRegions: num = 12645, resident = 339M + 21.1M private, 125M shared
    PhysMem: 107M wired, 443M active, 459M inactive, 1011M used, 13.0M free
    VM: 8.13G + 129M 37788(0) pageins, 888(0) pageouts
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    374 iDVD 100.3% 62:46.50 18 257 1131 78.9M 30.0M 76.4M 303M
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  • Not Responding - Encoding Audio

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  • Encoding Audio - Solution that worked for me

    Hi all,
    As some of you may or may not have known, i was having trouble with my iDVD project hanging at the encoding audio stage for about 24 hours.
    Yesterday i decided to try out a suggestion that i had seen on another thread somewhere. Appologies as i cannot recall where i saw it. However it worked for me.
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    Kind regards
    LJ

    Hi M
    Thank You for stating an advice I often give as so many else does.
    Nice to see that it works for You to.
    And a good and well writted description !
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  • When Burning IDVD hangs at Encoding Audio

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    Strange how I can't edit my post now even though it's only been half an hour...
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  • IDVD does crash when encoding audio

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  • IDVD freezes when encoding audio

    Whenever the project is done encoding the video, it freezes right when it gets to the encoding audio process.

    for over 10 hours
    New info...
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    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/18.html
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    Message was edited by: Bri

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