I cannot successfully burn DVDs

Hi, I cannot successfully burn DVDs. Every time I try, I end up wasting a disk because though it will read on the computer, there is No Play on the actual DVD player hooked up to the television. If anyone can offer help, tell me what to do and where to go to make this a success...thanks in advance

First which MacBook do you have? The 1.83 ghz does not have a burner. What program are you trying to burn with?
Here is some info for the dvd
trouble shooting slot load
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88275-en
Mort

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Guidelines for Free Space needed to successfully burn DVD?

I have been struggling for the last three weeks to get a successful burn of an iDVD (7.0.4) home movie using my 2005 iMacG5Power PC, OS10.5.6.
The movie I’m trying to burn has the following characteristics:
Edited in Final Cut Express (3.5), 45 minutes in length, with 10 Chapter Markers, and containing a 50-50 mix of 4x3 and 16x9 video clips downloaded into QuickTime files from a Sony TRV70 (standard Definition) and a Canon HD Vixia HV30. Although the Canon original mini-DV tapes are High Definition, I captured them as standard def in 16x9 format.
From FCE, I exported the edited movie as a QuickTime, self contained “Sequence” movie file which has a total size of ~28Gigs.
I dragged this Sequence QT movie file into iDVD having selected the Version 7.0 Sunflower theme, proceeded to author this theme with JPG pictures, and with inserted favorite iTunes selections. The iDVD movie file fully authored resulted in a 1.8G “.dvdproj” file, and a 3.2G “.img” file.
I have ~52G of free space on my start up drive.
I have not been able to get through a successful burn whether I use iDVD or Disk Utility or Toast 6.0 Time after time I get an error message at the very end of the iDVD process that says: “Multiplexer Error-There was an error during formatting”.
I have tried burning the disc image using Disk Utility and with Toast with similar results, …….after about 4 hours of elapsed encoding time, the process quits and spits out the DVD media at a point that often is involved with writing lead-in or lead-out functions, or something that says no response from hardware.
To check software and hardware functionality, today I spent “testing” all of this by using a random 3 minute portion of the overall 45 minute movie, and produced successful burns with iDVD, Disk Utility, and Toast.
Question
Is 52 G of free space on my start up drive sufficient for a Sequence QT movie of 28G ?
Tougher Question
How does one check his original edited FCE movie for potential errors that could affect the final burning process? (I have checked CHAPTER markers for placement, and frame spacing on either side of markers)
The iDVD Project Info pane and Project flow map show no red warnings; I’m well within the size and time guidelines for Best Performance burning on a standard 4.7G DVD-R medium.
Help…..this is getting frustrating. I think I did a great job editing this home movie, but the only way I will be able to show it off, is to have the family sit in front of the iMac!! Up till now, I have burned many one hour home movies using Tiger and iDVD 5 on this same iMac. What’s going on?
Thanks in Advance,
BoBo

the less-desscriptive 'multiplexing error' message usually does NOT indicate not enough disk space.
but ..
check project
• no involved file (audio, video, stills) should contain a 'bad character' in its name / | \ . … ; , ; ...
• no part should be 'audio less' .. e.g. iPhoto slideshows without music can create such an error
• you need at last 10-15GBs free on internal/if partitioned: MacOs-drive for using iDVD

Have you successfully burned DVD+R/DL disks with DSP 4?

I'd like to hear from anyone who has successfully burned a dual-layer project to a DVD+R/DL burner using DVD Studio Pro Version 4 and a THIRD PARTY burner (NOT a Apple SuperDrive that came with the G5).
What drive are you using?
Is it external or did you upgrade the internal drive?
What media are you using?
Are there any notable problems have you encoutered along the way? Any words of wisdom to share regarding dual-layer DVD projects?
I think an answer to these questions would help lots of readers, thanks in advance for taking the time to respond.
Cheers!
David
617.216.1096

I have burned successfully direct from DVDSP and Toast
Toast worked for me, but DVD Studio Pro did not.
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verified works with DVD Studio Pro. I wish, I
wish, LaCie would have helped me with using it
with DVD Studio Pro, but they said, they do not
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I keep getting an error -208 about 68% through the compression process. I really need to be able to use this burn function for work. Anyone wanna save my life?

which toast version you have?
are you sure that the file is valid and not corrupted?
check toast updater from roxio for latest patch.
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Just before Christmas I received a call from the grandson of a lady for whom I did a video. He said the DVD would not play in his DVD player and when he took it to a video production place they told him it was blank. (nitwits. . .it’s not blank) Originally I burned two DVDs of the video using iDVD 4. Later the woman requested three more copies which I did. I asked that he return one of the original DVDs (he said those played without problem) and the DVD that would not play.
This is what happened. I have three DVD players: an old one, a new one and a portable one. Both DVDs played without problem in the new one. Neither DVD played in the old one. The original DVD played fine in the portable, the DVD I burned later would not play in the portable.
I tested all three DVD players by playing a different DVD video I made a month or two before the one for this lady.. . . . . . .same equipment (FCX, LaCie external HD, etc), same brand disks, same everything. It played on all three just fine. In fact, I have never encountered this before except once when the people had an ancient DVD player.
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I’ve been on the iDVD support group (and related sites) for the past several days. I thought just getting quality disks would fix the problem. It didn't work and if I understand correctly, I cannot change the burn speed.
I got some Memorex Printable DVD-R 16x disks. I found I had archived my 11 minute project on DV tape so I was able to feed it into FCX and create a completely new iDVD project.
I burned the iDVD project using the Memorex disk. It failed. The message read:
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I went into the console log via the System Profiler. Found this info regarding the failed burn:
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iDVD: Requested burn speed was max, actual burn speed is 7x.
iDVD: Burn started, Mon Jan 30 23:47:28 2006
iDVD: Burn underrun protection is supported, and enabled.
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iDVD: Burn sense: 3/11/05 Medium Error, L-EC uncorrectable error
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It's mostly Greek to me except that the burn failed. (That it did!)
Then I burned the same iDVD project to a K-Hypermedia DVD-R 4x disk. Have used these disks in the past with no problem at all, but they are not printable labels. It burned without problem, plays fine on the iMac and three other DVD players. The following is the information on the console log about this successful burn:
DVD: Burning to PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-104 A227 via ATAPI.
iDVD: Requested burn speed was max, actual burn speed is 7x.
iDVD: Burn underrun protection is supported, and enabled.
iDVD: Burn finished, Thur Feb 2 13:09:46 2006
My goal here is to be able to burn to disks with printable labels. I’ve ordered some Verbatim DVD-R printable 4x disks.
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When I insert a blank CD-R in my Superdrive(tm), the blank disk appears on my desktop, making it easy to drag and drop files to it to be burned.
Blank DVD+R discs don't show up on my desktop, however. Is that by design? I'm guessing I could still burn a DVD data disc by using a burn folder, correct? Is there a better way?
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I have till today successfully burned dvd's, that play both on PAL and NTSC.
All of a sudden I get a message that I need to put in a blank DVD, recordeable, while I popped several blanks in...
At first I thought it was a faulty DVD, but it refuses on all of my DVD's. I have used the same DVD's for more then six months now, so I know they are OK.
Did I upgrade to 6.01 and harm anything? Are there bugs known for 6.01?
When I try to burn it straight from Toast, it burns, but then has no audio and other data when I put it in the DVD player.
I need an urgent answer as this is for a wedding DVD....

You're welcome Catherine!
Just hope it fixes it!
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Sue

I repeatedly get "error during rendering/encoding of menus/slideshow" message. This process is the same on my iMac, MacBook and another iMac. I have been burning dvd's int he same way for the past 12 months using the exact same steps successfully.

I keep getting "error during rendering/encoding of menus/slideshows" message. I have been burning DVD's in exactly the same way for the past 12 months and mostly on my MacBook which is 3 years old. Obviously I'm using iDVD. I purchased an iMac about a year ago and moved to use this for dvd burning without problem. A few months ago (approximately) I started to experience problems with burning with the error message above. I tried everything including starting the whole process from scratch right down to capturing the movie clips from my video recorder into iMovie, then using them in iDVD. Still the same message came up. I lost count of how many times I repeated the process with different clips and variations and the same thing happened. This was also the case with my MacBook and my husband's iMac.
After taking both of mymac's tothe service centre, having new optical thingys put it and even a new hard drive on my iMac along with a new DVD burner the same thing happened. They told me it must be the process that I am using that is incorrect!
I took my 27" iMac to an apple shop and asked them to assist me while I use the same technique as I always had. The same message came up so they tried using my clips in one of their mac's. The same message. They tried it with different clips and the same message. The only way we could get theirs to work was with a magic DVD which did not produce what I needed and was limited with only one page.
I now cannot use any of my Mac's for the intended purpose that I bought them for - to produce good media for my work! It was suggested that I purchase some non Mac software to burn DVDs which defeats the object of having a mac with iDVD in my opinion. I have a book on iDVD which is very informative and have followed the process to the letter and checked all the trouble shooting and still no remedy. It was mentioned that an up-date may have caused the problem on all my macs.
I feel that this issue should be addressed by Apple as a matter of correctness.
I now find that on the net there are many posts in forums and such like with exactly the same (almost word for word) problems. Please Apple, keep/regain your good name and sort this out.
Jayne Connelly

Thanks Bengt W for your attention to this matter. So much appreciated. And thanks for putting me right on the aim of forums (new to this). Although, you may regret asking for more information. I've added everything I can below.
The process I used is as follows:
Import recorded clips of between 5 and 15minutes each from my video recorder into i
Edit the clips (remove unwanted start and endng)
Add title to front of clips
‘Share’ them to ‘movie’ (export using QuickTime)folder in .mov format individually
Open iDVD and ‘create new project’
Select ‘favourite’ theme that I have set up forall my work dvd’s (this has been used successfully many times and I’ve triedwithout using the favourite them).
Add 2 submenus for each group of clips
Select submenu - drag and drop between 3 – 6 clips in each of the twosubmenus
Change title colours on clips
Dragand drop image into drop zones where required
In‘map’ view I check for any yellow warnings before burning to disc
In an attempt to remedy the problems I’ve tried the following:
Try new DVD discs
Try different themes (favourites and standardones)
Change images in drop zones
Start whole process again even from importingfrom camera again
Two other completely different computers (iMacand MacBook) with iDVD
Go to apple shop and use their computers to doin iDVD
Try with one clip and no menu pages added
Use a clip that I already have that did notoriginate from my camera
Turn computer off and restart
New hard drive
New optical lense (thing)
New DVD burner
Saving to disc image rather than dvd disc
Other points:
I also have a ‘flip’ and ‘iPhone’ whereI’ve imported footage camera which, although limited, records and makes videoclips and burns them to DVD through iDVD without problem.
For example, I have just gone through steps 5 - 11 using some clips that were already imported from my iphone to iPhoto and dragged across. I used a theme that I've used before which has failed and added one sub menu page where the clip went. It burned to disc image successfully.
The startup disc, I believe will have no space issues asit’s a new hard drive with no use apart from this. That could have been an issue before (I didn’t check it) butnot now.
Other technical stuff that I don't understand but you may:
I have…… Mac OS X Version 10.6.7 with all updates onit. Processor 2.8 GHz Intel Corei7. Memory 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3.
iDVD version 7.1.1
HardwareOverview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac11,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 4GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s
Boot ROM Version: IM111.0034.B02
SMC Version (system):            1.54f36
OPTIARCDVD RW AD-5680H:
Firmware Revision:     3AHB
Interconnect:    ATAPI
Burn Support:   Yes (AppleShipping Drive)
Cache:    2048KB
Reads DVD:    Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write:   -R, -R DL,-RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO,CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: Toshow the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose View > Refresh
If you can solve this you are better than the 'apple geeks' in the shop and the service technicians in the service centre (and of course me but that's no achievement).
Eagerly awaiting your reply.
Jayne

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I've tried several discs so it's not a faulty DVD
I trust that is several different brands, not several different discs from the same spindle/pack?
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http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm
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Problem with iDVD - cannot burn DVD.
Self has a MacBook Pro, which al new software.
My problem is, when my burn a slideshow, prop process ever before burning.
Box show: Multiflexing and burning: write Lead-in, then the process stops and ejects the disc.
I have burn a Movie test – no problems.
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OT

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Hi
Can You
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