IDVD Burning Error

When I go to burn the disc, it gets to multiplex and burning, spits out the disc and says done. However, it doesn't burn the dvd! What is happening?

I also got the "Multiplexer Error..." when tried to burn the idvd project on dvd disc. I have tried burning the disc with High Quality and Professional Quality. The original size of the movie is 9GB, when burning with High Quality, the size is 3.52 GB for 107 min. I have tried using single-layer and double-layer discs and I got the same error. Anyone knows what are the possible cause of the errors?

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  • IDVD burn error # 6

    Can anyone help me get my power book G4 to communicate with my external burner (Lacie d2 DVD +-RW)?
    I have spent more time trying to solve this problem than it took to film the digital video I want to burn.
    Here is the story in a short form:
    * created a movie from imported digital video and sequenced the clips in iMovie 05 and iMovie 06 no extra audio or slides.
    * created the needed chapters, titles, and themes in iDVD 05 and iDVD 6.
    * computer recognized the external burner (allowed me to start the encoding/burning process). After 4-6 hours of encoding, and 3-5 minutes of disk spinning; the disk is ejected from the drive, and I received the following errors:
    “Burning Finished. Errors were found during the burning process the recording device reported the error # 6: Power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred. (0x29, 0x00.)”
    “Multiplexer Error – There was a problem during multiplexing/burning”
    * the ejected disk (DVD + R) contains the menus but no video; (DVD – R) remains blank
    The following “fixes” have been attempted with no change:
    • run a new smaller movie – burns a movie and chapters fine if under 1 min in total length, but otherwise the error returns
    • when I burn the file with Toast, I lose the chapter titles which are crucial to the project
    • Reboot
    • Create a new movie with a new user
    • Ran repair disk permission
    • Checked the apple hardware
    • Updated the lacie drive
    • Installed iDVD 6
    • Called apple no real solutions
    • Called lacie – confused by the movie creating task
    So that sums it up, any real suggestions? I bought apple because simple was preferred, this has turned into anything but simple. In over my head?
    power book G4   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  
    power book G4   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

    Over,
    Welcome to the iDVD discussions.
    Let's separate getting your LaCie to work from getting iDVD to work!
    Try using "save as disk image" in iDVD. This will create a .img file that you can burn to your LaCie using Disk Utility or Toast or other disk burning software.
    If you can create the image, but are still having issues with burning, then we can focus on the hardware/DVD driver end of things, and LaCie won't be confused by the movie making end of things.
    Also try making a data DVD in the finder (or using Toast or Toast Lite). Does this work OK?
    John B.

  • IDVD 5.0.1 mulitplexing/burning errors

    Here goes, my factory installed combo drive broke, so I got a new CD/DVD Burner : (company installed)
    Manufacturer:     _NEC
    Model:     _NEC DVD_RW ND-1300A
    Revision:     1.05
    Drive Type:     CD-RW/DVD-RW
    Disc Burning:     Vendor Supported
    My iDVD 3 worked once, then would not work, it wouldn't open properly and had to force quit every time.
    I asked our IT dept to re-install it. They couldn't find the software re-install disc. Sooo they got out the iLife disc and installed iLife with iDVD 5.0.1.
    It won't work either.
    When I try to burn a DVD, it proceeds like it is encoding, then at the end, it gives me an error message; Errors in Burning Process. I hit ok then it says: Multiplex Error, problem during multiplexing/burning. I am left with a blank DVD and lots of frustration.
    I try to bring up old DVD projects I've previously made with iDVD 3, but it keeps trying to find files that it cannot find. Even though I have all the files saved.
    I have Quicktime 7.0 that I installed a while ago and iDVD 3 did fine with those exported files.
    I have FCP HD 4.5, I usually export as a Quicktime file, same as source, creating new media (stand alone file). Never had a problem before with iDVD 3 and my old combo drive.
    I have Mac OS X (10.3.9). I have 40 Gb available on my start up drive (Mac HD).
    As I said before, I sucessfully burned one or 2 discs before iDVD 3 started acting up on me and led me to install iDVD 5.0.1.
    Here's my console report from today's attempt:
    Contents:     Mac OS X Version 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
    2005-10-21 10:13:17 -0700
    iDVD: Burn started, Fri Oct 21 10:39:55 2005
    iDVD: Burning to DVD-R media with DAO strategy in _NEC DVD_RW ND-1300A 1.05 via ATAPI.
    iDVD: Requested DVD burn speed was 2x, actual burn speed is 1x.
    iDVD: Burn underrun protection is supported, and enabled.
    iDVD: Burn failed, Fri Oct 21 10:39:56 2005
    iDVD: Burn sense: 5/30/05 Illegal Request, Cannot write medium, incompatible format
    iDVD: Burn error: 0x80020022 The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry.
    I've read some of the threads on this problem already, with no luck so far.
    Any suggestions appreciated.
    Thanks,
    JBT

    I am having a similar problem burning via IDVD 4. However, in my case the Superdrive in the installed original on a year old PowerMac G5. This is the second of two similar FCE projects each 90min. The first burned fine but the second one gets to stage 4 and stalls. The striped progress bar moves but the burning never takes place even after hours. Hitting the cancel button has occasionally given the message "errors were found during the burning process. Logical end-of-file reached during read operation".
    I have tried the follwing remedies without success:
    1) taping the video back to the camcorder and reimporting it into IMovie. It looked fine even in the IDVD preview but would not burn
    2) I did an archive and install of the OS including the ILife apps
    Even more perplexing is the fact that a short segment of the project in question burned just fine did a two hour long video saved as a disc image.
    I would greatly appreciate any assistance. Thanks, Jay

  • TS2180 DVDs won't play in regular DVD players iDVD burns with no errors the DVDs always get out into a folder ???

    Dear Apple friends The iDVD burns DVDs with-out any error messages but DVDs dont play in regular DVD players I notice that the DVD burns to a folder and there is no setting to prevent this How do you burn the DVD with-out it getting put into a folder ??? Thanks Mike

    That often is a result of using inferior DVD disks and burning at too high a speed.  What brand and type of disk did you use and what speed did you burn at?
    Follow this workflow to help ensure the best quality video DVD:
    Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the  File ➙ Save as Disk Image  menu option.  This will separate the encoding process from the burn process. 
    To check the encoding mount the disk image and launch DVD Player and play it.  If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding was good.
    Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality.  Always use top quality media:  Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
    OT

  • Burning error on iDVD

    I am trying to burn a DVD that includes pictures and music. I have most of the slideshows done, but when I tried a test-run burn--it won't complete it.
    It says something about a multiplexing/burning error. I click ok, and then it shows me an error message that says:
    Burning finished.
    Errors were found during the burning process.
    Error #536890198
    Can anyone tell me what the problem is? I'm using DVD+R discs. I looked, and my iMAC supports DVD+/-R or RW and DL as well. I'm semi-new to mac and super new to iDVD.
    Any suggestions??
    THANKS!
    iMAC--intel   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

    Hello Kholt,
    I would recommend the following steps:
    1. iDVD is NOT a disc burning app, so leave that work to software designed for it. Instead use iDVD's "Save as Disc Image" option (File > Save as Disk image). This creates an .img file on your HDD, that can be stored for future use and gives you the option to preview your DVD on your Mac before burning to disc.
    2. Use Disc Utility or Toast to burn your DVD at slow speed. 4x is acceptable, 2x (... or even 1x) is better.
    3. Use high quality DVD-R (not DVD+R) media (e.g. Verbatim) to minimize burn errors and compatibility issues. Make sure the DVD is compatible with slow burn speed (e.g. 1x-4x)
    Also: iDVD likes to have the project(s) on your startup disc with 15 - 20 GB of available disc space
    hope this helps
    mish

  • IDVD keeps reporting Burn Error #-1

    Ok, I've checked previous posts regarding Burn errors, only found one relating to error 1 which said it was due to audio overrun on the movie.
    My question is how does this occur when the movie and audio are imported together? The audio has not been extracted and the end of the film has been edited out. (Split video at current frame, and move excess not required out of the timeline)
    This has been ongoing now for three weeks. This is what I have done:
    1. Imported hi-8 90 min movie from camera thru Canopus ADVC55 into iMovie. (First time this was done got one clip, second time got two clips but first was over 60min, last time I restricted import to max 50min clips). Project is located on my external WD MyDisc reformatted for HFS. Cleared 50Gb of free space from Macintosh startup drive.
    2. Added clips to timeline. Saved three frames as JPEG's to use in iDVD menu. No chapter markers, transitions etc. just the raw movie. Saved iMovie project
    3. In iDVD created a new project (on Wd drive same directory as iMovie project) set the theme to Scrapbook (V5.0 theme) edited the drop zone to add the JPEGS saved earlier
    4. Added the movie file from the Media page and dragged the movie onto the menu.
    5. Edited the title on the menu.
    6. Save iDVD project
    7. Save as Disk Image on WD external drive (same directory as iDVD project)
    8 Encodes for 3 hours and comes up with error, haven't managed to catch the change from Encoding movie to encoding audio to see if it gets past this.
    9. Repeated exercise using 5 min movie. This worked fine.
    10. Trashed iDVD preferences - no effect
    11. Trashed iMovie, iDVD and Quicktime - reloaded iMovie and iDVD from installation disks and downloaded Quicktime. Rebooted - no effect.
    12. Shut down and reconfigured my set-up. WD HDD was at end of Firewire chain
    MAC->USB Hub (2 FW)->Iomega HDD->Lacie d2 DVD writer->WD HDD
    to
    MAC->USB Hub->Iomega HDD->WD HDD
    anything else i can try?

    Hi
    a. Yes it most often was related to stray audio fragments outside movie duration
    but it is a general error so there might be many more origins
    b. USB-hubb FW (FireWire connections) Sounds strange to me but might fall back to my ignorance.
    I would try to keep as few item connected as possibly and stay away from any form
    of Daisy Chaining.
    *Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:*
    • 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)
    • Delete iDVD pref file - *or rather start a new user/account* - log into this and re-try
    • Program miss-match: iDVD 5.0.2, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK - DON’T work under Leopard
    • Program miss-match: iDVD 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
    • Program miss-match: iDVD’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - 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
    iDVD 6.0.4 and iDVD 7.0.1 are compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
    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.
    Yours Bengt W

  • Disk Utility: Burn error: 0x80020022 The device failed to respond...

    I've been working on archiving a ton of video to DVD. I'm using Dual-Layer discs to minimize the amount of physical storage space needed for the finished project. I burned several discs in iDVD in July and regularly received errors. Then the drive suddenly stopped loading any type of media. Anything I inserted would spin briefly and then eject. Repaired permissions and followed steps outlined here and here. Took the Mac back to the store where I bought it (sadly, not an Apple Store - nearest one is 12 hrs away) where naturally it performed flawlessly for the store rep.
    So I took it home and resumed burning, now saving as a disc image (ignoring iDVD's warning about the performance of DVDs burned this way) and using Disk Utility, since iDVD didn't seem to be reliable. Burned about 25 discs, error-free, in this fashion, then three days ago, got the error: "Unable to burn “Disc 19.img”. (The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry.)"
    Retried the same image, and it worked. Then burned two more in the same fashion with no errors. Today I got the same error again. Logs are identical for each failed burn, except for the time span between certain lines.
    Price of DL media being what it is, I'd hate to keep ruining discs if there's something I can do to avoid it. I suppose it could be bad media, but it seems odd that I'd get two bum discs that close together after burning so many without issue. Checked the site and the forums, and there doesn't seem to be any answers. Does anyone have any ideas? (Other than "try a different brand of media." I've got a buttload of these discs and it's too late to return them now.) Even if it just helps determine where the issue lies. Warranty will be up soon, so if it's hardware related, I need to get it taken care of quick.
    Media: Philips DVD+R DL 8x
    *Drive info:*
    HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS21N:
    Firmware Revision: SA15
    Interconnect: ATAPI
    Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
    Cache: 2048 KB
    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: Insert media and refresh to show available burn speeds
    DiscUtility.log:
    2009-10-03 08:54:01 -0600: Burning Image “Disc 22.img”
    2009-10-03 08:55:15 -0600: Image name: “Disc 22.img”
    2009-10-03 08:55:15 -0600: Burn disc in: “HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS21N”
    2009-10-03 08:55:15 -0600: Erase disc before burning: No
    2009-10-03 08:55:15 -0600: Leave disc appendable: No
    2009-10-03 08:55:15 -0600: Verify burned data after burning: Yes
    2009-10-03 08:55:15 -0600: Eject disc after burning
    2009-10-03 08:55:15 -0600:
    2009-10-03 08:55:15 -0600: Preparing data for burn
    2009-10-03 08:56:30 -0600: Opening session
    2009-10-03 08:56:35 -0600: Opening track
    2009-10-03 08:56:35 -0600: Writing track
    2009-10-03 09:01:37 -0600: Finishing burn
    2009-10-03 09:02:37 -0600: Closing session
    2009-10-03 09:02:38 -0600: Finishing burn
    2009-10-03 09:38:37 -0600: Burn failed
    2009-10-03 09:38:37 -0600: The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry.
    2009-10-03 09:38:37 -0600: Additional information can be found in the ~/Library/Logs/DiscRecording.log log file.
    2009-10-03 09:38:37 -0600: Unable to burn “Disc 22.img”. (The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry.)
    DiscRecording.log:
    Disk Utility: Burn started, Sat Oct 3 08:55:15 2009
    Disk Utility: Burning to DVD+R DL (CMC MAG D03) media with DAO strategy in HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS21N SA15 via ATAPI.
    Disk Utility: Requested burn speed was 47x, actual burn speed is 4x.
    Disk Utility: Burn failed, Sat Oct 3 09:37:15 2009
    Disk Utility: Burn sense: 4/44/90 Hardware Error,
    Disk Utility: Burn error: 0x80020022 The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry.
    Message was edited by: Weasel42

    I have encountered the same problem. I have a Mac Book Pro from 2007, and it has gone through 3 DVD writers so far, all of which have ruined DVD+R DL disks. I have occasionally been able to burn one, but usually during verify, I get this error message:
    Communication to the disk drive failed: 0x8002022
    And disk utility fails with a "Invalid B-tree node size" error
    Oddly, when I try to burn a disk near capacity (6.5Gb or more) it is more likely to fail than if I burn a smaller disk.
    I've been using Memorex DVD+R DL disks, but I have used other brands in the past but they have failed, too. Out of about 50 disks so far, I have had success with about 5.

  • DVD Burning Error: Unknown device error. (0x73, 0x03.)

    I have been trying to burn a home movie using iDVD. I transferred the media successfully to my computer, followed all the steps, and was finally ready to burn the DVD. After waiting almost an hour through the burn process, it spit the DVD back out of my Macbook Pro and gave me the following message.
    *Errors were found during the burning process:*
    *The recording device reported the media error: Unknown device error. (0x73, 0x03.)*
    I don't really know what this means. Was the media corrupt? Or is there a problem with my DVD player? I have supplied my DVD and computer information below. I would appreciate all the help I can get. Thank you in advance!
    Courtney
    *MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857D:*
    Firmware Revision: KCVB
    Interconnect: ATAPI
    Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
    Cache: 2048 KB
    Reads DVD: Yes
    CD-Write: -R, -RW
    DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
    Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
    Media: Insert media and refresh to show available burn speeds
    *Hardware Overview:*
    Model Name: MacBook Pro 15"
    Model Identifier: MacBookPro2,2
    Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
    Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
    Number Of Processors: 1
    Total Number Of Cores: 2
    L2 Cache: 4 MB
    Memory: 1 GB
    Bus Speed: 667 MHz
    Boot ROM Version: MBP22.00A5.B07
    SMC Version (system): 1.12f5

    Using the same media I've used for years (Verbatim 4x InkJet printable) and all of a sudden can't burn from the internal drive. I do have an external burner (7 disc standalone replicator with USB/FireWire 400) and hooked that up and burned to a disc from the same spindle with no problem, and then made a 3x replicate with the same media. So it's looking like my MacBook Pro's drive is failing?
    Laptop is plugged in and fully charged.
    DVD Studio Pro: Burn started, Fri Oct 23 22:42:55 2009
    DVD Studio Pro: Burning to DVD-R (MCC 01RG20) media with DAO strategy in MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857E ZA0E via ATAPI.
    DVD Studio Pro: Requested burn speed was 4x, actual burn speed is 4x.
    DVD Studio Pro: Burn underrun protection is supported, and enabled.
    DVD Studio Pro: Write (10), block: 0, count: 64 -> 3/73/03 Medium Error, Power calibration area error
    DVD Studio Pro: Burn failed, Fri Oct 23 22:44:13 2009
    DVD Studio Pro: Burn sense: 3/73/03 Medium Error, Power calibration area error
    DVD Studio Pro: Burn error: 0x8002006D The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media.
    DVD Studio Pro: Burn started, Fri Oct 23 22:55:50 2009
    DVD Studio Pro: Burning to DVD-R (MCC 01RG20) media with DAO strategy in MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857E ZA0E via ATAPI.
    DVD Studio Pro: Requested burn speed was 4x, actual burn speed is 4x.
    DVD Studio Pro: Burn underrun protection is supported, and enabled.
    DVD Studio Pro: Write (10), block: 0, count: 64 -> 3/73/03 Medium Error, Power calibration area error
    DVD Studio Pro: Burn failed, Fri Oct 23 22:57:08 2009
    DVD Studio Pro: Burn sense: 3/73/03 Medium Error, Power calibration area error
    DVD Studio Pro: Burn error: 0x8002006D The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media.

  • Multiplexing & Burning Error

    I am new to idvd and have made one short movie successfully. Now I have one that is 137 min and 4.29gb. I am trying to get it to burn on DVD+R DL. I spent 2 days on it and it pops out the DVD and says multiplexing & burning error.This happened a couple of times. The status still shows 7 plus minutes, but the disc is out. I am not sure what is going on. Any ideas? I reviewed it all and have 21 scenes,and everything seems like it should work. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!!

    I have found that the DVD+R discs don't work for me, I found that only DVD-R worked. Try that, and if that doesn't work post here again and I'll see what else I can dig up for you

  • Idvd burned to dvd+r not compatible with pc?

    i've dragged an imovie to idvd, burned a dvd+r and turned it over to someone to show on a pc, and it's not reading.
    i would appreciate your help!
    thanks.

    The DVD drives on some PCs will have trouble with DVD-R, but should be fine with +R. You might want to try reducing errors by slowing down the burning process and using the highest quality media (Verbatim is often recommended; I also use Sony). To burn slowly, you'll need to create a disc image from iDVD, and with older versions of iDVD, I've read that Patchburn software is needed. Search this forum for details.
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  • Idvd - burning issures

    After I burn a disk in idvd onto an imation dvd-r (8x), I get the message - "device drained it's buffer without burn underrun protection". What does this mean?
    When I play the dvd's on the mac they work great, but on my own dvd player, they stop, hesitate and the pictures are jagged, pixelated. If it does play, it will stop at the slideshow. I have several scene selections and a slide show on one dvd. I have tried making an image copy and the dvd still had problems on a dvd player.

    Hi nskb1z5p,
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    If you have any question relating to your blurry images, jump onto the iPhoto forum and have a look for posts by Karl Peterson. He has his indepth explinations for this posted a few times. I also attached the link to the Macintosh document about it.
    Good luck.
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93002

  • IDVD 6 error -8850 !!!!!!

    Folks... am tearing my hair out on this one, and am hoping someone can shed some light on the subject! I'm running iDVD 6 on an Intel MacBook Pro, still at OS 10.4.9. Am trying to create a DVD Image, and after it runs through the sequence iDVD reports error -8850, which I cannot find reference to anywhere! Contents is a .mov video, plus a bunch of photos in individual slideshows (photo files included in the burn). I've done all the usual debugging (created small test DVD which ran fine, deleted encoded content, removed non-Apple stuff from Library/Quicktime, checked for buttons outside the TV safe area, DiskCheck, created project archive on 2nd drive and ran from there, etc). Still no joy! Console log keeps complaining about "slideshow.mpg" not being found, but I have not inserted anything of this name, and have double-checked in the DVD map and on all the screens and DVD project info, and cannot find any stray reference to any content of this name!
    Would very much appreciate any suggestions!!
    Tom

    I'm using an external firewire drive for the 8GB DVD project file (I had created a project archive to gather together all the needed resources, which were coming from the iPhoto and iTunes databases on that other computer). I mount the volume via the Finder, and save the disk image on the local computer. I'm right at 24GB free on that local computer, so I was concerned with putting the 8GB project archive onto the local disk.
    Some interesting results after a very long night of trying to debug this last night... the Console error of "cannot find slideshow.mpg" which is pointing into the Resources folder inside the iDVD project package is evidently not a critical error. I stripped down the project to menus plus slideshows only (no movie file, for which i've tried both .mov and .dv formats), and each of the 7 slideshows I only populated with 2 pictures each. The DVD image completed successfully in this instance, even though the Console log still compained 7 times about not finding a slideshow.mpg file! I then went into one of the slideshows and added the baland of about 8 pictures, and when I re-ran the DVD image file creation, I again had error -8850.
    Ah Ha! I thought at 2am this morning... a corrupted file. Shut down iDVD and fired up Tech Tool Pro, but no indications of problem files. Ran both File Structure and Finder Info checks.
    When I re-ran the DVD image file creation, still had the same fatal error -8850, and a non-mountable image file created. When I pull out the extra pictures from the one slideshow, it ran with no errors and produced a good image file. BTW, i have viewed each of the pictures in that slideshow, both via the iDVD edit window, and through other programs, and they display just fine.
    I'll try more debugging tonight... I tried to run a stripped down DVD structure with only the one slideshow in question, and I think it ran OK, but I was getting pretty blurry-eyed by then.
    I'll report back on progress after tonights episode. I figure I should test by adding photos back into one or more of the other slideshows, while keeping the first minimized, and see what happens. Also will try again on a stripped down DVD with only the one slideshow in question. Any other suggestions on special debug steps would be (as always) greatly appreciated!
    Tom

  • Dvd burn error--need help with error message

    Ok so I have read all the support articles and many of the discussions already posted...but still can not burn a dvd.
    so, I created a project on idvd, it just has two slideshows that I imported from iphoto. I could not burn the dvd directly from idvd, got the multiplexing/burn error message. I successfully created a disk image and was able to play it on my computer using the dvd player, I then tried to burn it using the disk utility and again got an error message after it started the writing proccess...the error said "The devise failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media" Does anyone know what this means??? I have lots of room on my hard drive and am using DVD-R sony dvds. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

    Hi Becca:
    Just click on the little  in the upper left-hand corner, click ' About this Mac', More Info..and open your System Profiler. Under ATA you should se something like this:
    MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-825:
    Manufacturer: MATSHITA
    Model: MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-825
    Revision: DBN7
    Serial Number:
    ---> Drive Type: CD-RW/DVD-RW
    Disc Burning: Apple Supported/Shipped
    Removable Media: Yes
    Detachable Drive: No
    Protocol: ATAPI
    Unit Number: 0
    Socket Type: Internal
    That will tell you.
    Sue

  • IDVD Multiplexer error

    I've been trying for what seems like days now to get iDVD to burn my dvd but I keep getting the "Multiplexer error". I've tried changing the speed to 4x then 2x and that didn't help. I've checked for software updates, restarted my Imac and idvd numerous times.
    Is it possible anyone can give me a step by step guide of how to stop this issue? I really need to get this dvd burned a.s.a.p I have no apps or anything running on my Imac as I'm trying to burn a dvd and my Imac is pretty new it's got tons of space. It's 3am I've been working at this for hours with no sucess so far. I'm using Idvd 7.1.1

    Hi
    Multiplex Error - Can be a lot of different things - one very common and not obvious is
    • In iDVD - turn on TV-Safe area - NO buttons or pictures can go outside this OR EVEN Just touching it !
    Move all well inside this !
    Else
    LONG LONG LONG LIST
    Multiplexing Error
    PART One.
    Use of strange video/audio material eg .avi, .wmv, .mp3 etc.
    I only use.
    Video - StreamingDV (miniDV tape via FireWire) and
    Audio = .aiff (as on audio-CDs) (else converted to this .aff 48KHz)
    Chapters !
    A.    Using strange letters in video project name eg +,/; etc. keep to a-z and 0-9 strange letters in project name eg +
    as described by Donnyboy69.  Does the title of your project have any symbols or decimal points in it. If so, that is why you are getting the error. I had a project that had a + sign which caused the same problem. I renamed it without the symbol and low and behold, it worked.
    B.    Location of Chapters
    • Can’t be at start or end of movie (Skip first/start one - iDVD sets this by it self. At the End - no need)
    • Not in a transition (or within 2-3 seconds from it)
    Important when from iMovie HD6 or previous - Now also observed when using FCE 4
    PART Two.
    from Robert Modero.
    "Multiplexing Error. Problem during initialization of tracks"
    Simply remember to add subtitles to your Quicktime files and menu buttons.
    Once I did that, I was back in business.
    from Boise Jim
    Do a safe reboot (by holding down the shift key until you see the spinning gear on grey background, then release, then restart when your start-up screen appears).
    I always makes a DiskImage first and test this so that it runs OK
    I use only - Verbatim DVDs
    I use only - DVD-R
    I burn at an as slow speed possibly eg x1
    This gives good DVDs
    PART Three.
    Multiplex Error
    Chuck, Chicago 2/7/2009.
    Back again. Here is what I have found to work. I also have and use a LaCie DVD-R/RW DL external drive and a LaCie external hard drive as well. Since yesterday I have tried a few ways to burn a themed iDVD project having four 56 minute movies on it, amounting to 226 minutes onto a DVD DL disc, capacity 240 minutes. Apple tech support really didn't know what to do but gave me a very good tip. I had two options left. Apple tech support's tip was to try disc image. One of the replies on a thread with this subject said not to, but my experience today is good. Put your project onto "Burn to disc image," under "iDVD, file." Yesterday encoding took me 23 1/2 hours. Overnight for iDVD disc image, encoding took 21 1/2 hours (again) while I slept. This morning I tried to copy/burn disc image to a DVD with Roxio Toast 7, and it stopped near the end of the burn with some kind of "error" message. So then I tried Utilities> Disc Utility> Burn icon, and followed it through. Be sure to click the DVD DL drive in the window "Burn disc in.". I had one other problem though. At the end of a 46 minute copy, it started to verify, and at the end of verify it rejected the burn. So I tried again, and when "verify" appeared, I clicked on "Skip." The disc finished burning and is doing fine and well. A long and tortuous process, but at last something works. I made several additional copies using Disc Utility. Best wishes. Chuck, Chicago.
    2. Disconnect any other external devices not absolutely needed.
    eg external USB/USB2 hard disks, other FW hard disks etc.
    3 Chapter marks in transitions - minimum 2 sec from
    FROM Bev.
    (Not a 'guy' but I will answer!)
    First, I do not think that mixing widescreen and standard makes a difference in iDVD.
    Second, you should use a better brand of DVD disk. Also, many of us have experienced fewer problems on playback with DVD-R disks. Recommended brands here are Verbatim, Maxell and Taio Yuden. Memorex and TDK are not consistent and may not give you a correct burn. They apparently have fewer layers in the composition of the disk. I have always used Verbatim DVD-R disks and have not had any burn problems.
    Also, choose a slower burn speed, 4x or less.
    Third, to determine if the iDVD project will burn properly, create a disk image file (from within iDVD, go File->Save as Disk Image) and test it. Mount the disk image and then open DVD Player (in Applications) and view your project. If it plays correctly, you can then burn the actual DVD disk from the disk image file using Disk Utility.
    From. Boise, Idaho
    I did everything I've seen suggested, but a friend (who used to be an Apple Genius) suggested that I do a safe reboot (by holding down the shift key until you see the spinning gear on gray background, then release, then restart when your start-up screen appears).
    It worked, and I got a clean burn from iDVD.
    Hopefully this can help other people.
    by dheb0422
    Well, I finally got it, and it was odd enough to post here incase anyone looks this topic up again. Many things were tried, including burning the unedited film, the edited film without titles and chapter markers, abbreviating the chapter markers in case length was the issue (remember the old iMovie used to truncate them when moving to iDVD?). In the process, I noticed that one, and only one, chapter marker was on the same line as the title marker. All the others were on the line above. The only way I seemed able to change that was to clip a few seconds of film. After that last clip, the offending marker took a place on the line above, as were all the others. That run published, compiled completely and burned. That's one for the books.
    One user more writes
    To add my experience with Multiplex Errors using iDVD (7.0.4), I recently created two iDVD projects
    Video from both passed from FCE 4.01 with chapters
    One project worked fine in creating disk image file
    The other gave Multiplex Errors
    I tried suggestions to remove special characters and no chapter marks at beginning, but nothing worked
    Note that I've used iDVD for dozens of projects and this is first time I've run into Multiplex Errors
    Anyway, for problem project, I tried an experiment where I removed all chapters in FCE and passed to new iDVD project
    This time multiplex errors gone
    So had something to do with chapters
    So now I tried numerous experiments to remove individual chapters and try again creating disk image with new iDVD project
    After numerous trys, I was able to narrow problem down to 1 "Bad" chapter mark
    That is, when I left the "bad" chapter in my FCE project and passed to iDVD, iDVD gave multiplex error
    When I removed "bad" chapter mark (and others in), no multiplex error
    As a final experiment, I moved "bad" chapter mark about 5-10 secs beyond original point and passed to iDVD, the multiplex errors now magically went away and I was able to finally create my disk image.
    I have no idea why this worked, but thought I'd mention here in case someone else runs into similar problem.
    Rich839
    In addition to Bengt's fine advice, burning errors can occur if you have located any of your menu buttons wholly or partly outside of the safe TV viewing area. Go to your main project menu, then click on View/Show TV Safe Area, to check. Drag into the safe viewing area any buttons that are outside the safe viewing area.
    Russ One - suggest this
    Multiplex Error-There was an error during muxing preparation
    One thing that worked for me was to export the video w/o chapter markers as a self contained movie (thereby not loosing the edits & etc). Then make a new FCE project and import that movie into a new sequence and add the chapter markers. I've used "-", "&" and "," with no problem in the chapter names. Removing the markers or exporting without them did solve the problem but renaming them with just numbers 1,2,3....5, did not solve the problem and since this problem seems to happen with with iMovie as well, it would suggest the problem is in the video or audio and in combination with the chapter markers iDVD just can't handle it. The only other possibility is that both iMovie and FCE share the same or similar chapter marker code that some how is corrupting the markers.
    Summary - What to try
    1. Chapters
    • Only A to Z and 0 to 9 in chapter title
    • No Chapter mark at very beginning of movie
    • No Chapter mark in or within 2 seconds from any transition in movie
    2. TV-safe area for buttons (no one outside this)
    3. Safe re-boot
    4. No other external devices connected - that are not needed
    SDMacuser adds to this
    • On #4 ... No ext. devices. Some think this applies mainly to ext. FW. Not the case. Also applies to ext. USB2 as well (not to mention flash drives too).
    Do not leave 3rd party devices / camera / camcorder plugged in unless it is being used with iDvd's One Step process. Certain web cams can trigger this also (especially ones with added features like LED light/s that draw additional power from the FW or USB bus).
    5. Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-up hard disk
    6. Make a DiskImage first - reduces where problem originates
    7. Trash iDVD pref file
    8. Make a new iDVD project
    9. Movies in project with same aspect ratio eg 4x3 or 16x9
    10. No other programs/applications running during iDVD process. eg Internet, screen & energy savers
    Yours Bengt W

  • IDVD burning guide - reading required

    As there seem to be many burn issues - it just never seems to stop - I have allowed myself to put together a little burning guide. As we have no "stickies" in discussions, maybe we can bump it a few times
    Disclaimer: the advice given in the following is not (or only in part) my own wisdom, they are merely a collection of very good advice given by many experienced members of this board. Thanks to Sue, Beverly, Karl, Karsten, Fred, Len, Bengt, Matti, and many others who have been helping to keep things working - keep it up.
    How to correctly burn a DVD
    Before you start (from iMovie)
    • Do not use the "Share to iDVD" option in iMovie, but save and quit iMovie then open iDVD and drag in your movie from the media pane or choose File > Import > Video. This has two advantages:
    a. Only one app is open
    b. It avoids a bug present in iMovie concerning photos/slides described by Karl Petersen in this thread:
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2105598&#2105598
    • iDVD likes to have the project(s) on your startup disc with min. 20 GB of available disc space
    • iDVD doesn't get along well with 12-bit audio from camcorders (16-bit is required)
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=494268&tstart=0&start=45
    • iDVD 6 only: There have been several issues concerning hangs/crashes when using mp3 files. Convert all mp3 audio files into AIFF before importing/burning.
    Related thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=507979&tstart=0
    Step-by-step
    1. iDVD is NOT a disc burning app, so leave that work to software designed for it. Instead use iDVD's "Save as Disc Image" option (File > Save as Disk image). This creates an .img file on your HDD, that can be stored for future use and gives you the option to preview your DVD on your Mac before burning to disc.
    2. Use Disc Utility or Toast to burn your DVD at slow speed. 4x is acceptable, 2x (... or even 1x) is better.
    3. Use high quality DVD-R (not DVD+R) media (e.g. Verbatim) to minimize burn errors and compatibility issues. Make sure the DVD is compatible with slow burn speed (e.g. 1x-4x)
    Note:
    • iDVD 4 disc image burning can be enabled through the patch HPfurz
    http://homepage.mac.com/geerlingguy/macsupport/mac_help/pages/0015-burn_idvdother.html
    Additional Reading:
    • John Beatty: Troubleshooting iDVD
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=508221&tstart=0
    • iDVD appears to be unresponsive when encoding Audio
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302988
    • Burning a disk image file on a CD or DVD in Mac OS X
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006
    • How to copy previously-burned DVD-R video discs
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42724
    • About optical disc drive burning and write speeds
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301551
    • Factors that affect writing to or reading from optical media
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25402
    • Jim Taylor's DVD FAQ
    http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#0.1
    • Which DVD media to buy and why
    http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2815102#2815102
    hope this helps
    mish

    Karsten,
    thanks
    The Rules of Chapter Markers:
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    2. No chapter markers within 2 seconds of the beginning or the end of the movie.
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    ... is it still so, 'no music - no disk' using iPhoto slideshows...?
    I have to say that I have no clue about that - I have yet to create a slideshow with iPhoto. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can jump in here ....
    do you know the waybackmachine...?
    You really got your research down, thanks for the link .... I'll go and save it as PDF, you never know
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    I kinda like that idea: Karsten's Unofficial iDVD FAQ
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