IDVD failing to encode audio

Help ! I am making a DVD for the high school baseball team and the banquet is next week. I did the same thing 2 years ago without incident. My iMovie is a slideshow of digital photos set to music. When transferring to iDVD, it encodes the menu, encodes the video (takes 2 hours) and then fails to encode the audio. The colored circle spins for a few minutes. The burn circle stops spinning. My laptop (Powerbook G4) spits out the DVD disc blank. I tried taking off all songs expect one that I used 2 years ago without incident. Did not work either. I am very very disappointed. The kids were going to love this. Any ideas ? If worst case scenario occurs, is there someplace (I live in Ann Arbor) I can take the iMovie file to and have them make a DVD ? Any advice is greatly appreciated. I am working with iMovie 5 and iDVD 5. Will it help to upgrade to ILife 06 ? Thanks

I only have 1.21 GB at this time because I
transferred the iMovie to my laptop. Having said
that, the reason I put it on my laptop is that I made
the iMovie on an external hard drive with over 300
GB. The problem first occurred on the external hard
drive (Western Digital). I thought moving it to my
laptop might make a difference. It did not.
iDVD needs to use your start-up hard drive for many things when creating a DVD. You need to freeup at least 10 GB (15 or 20 would be better) for things to work.
My son plays for Huron. We split with Pioneer. I live in A2
but went to ND. Are you still willing to help me ?
Certainly - but since I live near Rochester, NY all I can do is offer written support here in the Forum
Just as a general rule of thumb, OS-X needs something like 10 to 15% of your drive kept free of OS use. So if you have a 60 GB drive, you will need something like 6 GB free JUST FOR THE OS! That's why I said you need to freeup about 10 to 20 GB.
The problem first occurred on the external hard drive (Western Digital)
What is the format on this drive? They usually ship with a Windows format and need to be reformatted to a Mac format to work well with all things Mac OS-X.
F Shippey

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IDVD will not encode audio

Hi,
Just as the topic says, iDVD will not encode the audio......well whats happening is that it says its in the process of encoding....the bar turns grey, and has the loading color wheel thing and thats basically whats happening. Its been doing this for the past hour. I have lots of ram and memory so i dont think thats a problem.....any solutions??
Thanks

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.
Sooner or later iDVD will finish!

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.

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...
I would suggest Sharing as QuickTime Full Quality and drag that file into a new iDVD project, then create a disk image and then burn. If you have chapter markers, they will be lost. Import that file into a new iMovie project, add chapter markers, send to (new) iDVD project.
File/Save as Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/18.html
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. If you hold your mouse cursor over the pop-up it says: "Select a slower speed to work around burn failures," so select 4x or slower for best results. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD Media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

IDVD freezes when encoding audio for "processing movies"

what's wrong?

Hello Dafire,
maybe this:
Issues with iDVD 6.0.2, iMovie 6.0.2 and MP3 files - encoding audio hangs
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=494268&tstart=0
or check here:
MP3 Causing Trouble
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=501555&tstart=0
hope this helps
mish

IDVD won't ecode audio, 'not responding' = force quit

IDVD 6 /10.4.7/MACPRO
iDVD won't encode audio portion from iMovie had off.
original iMovie from DV camera, iMove encodes QT, etc
iDVD encodes video ( as noted by time bar) but when it gets to the audio portion it stops responding and then I have to forcve quit.
repaired persmissions, and delited the iDVD.plist
any thing I can do? iDVD 6 is the first time I used this after update

Scooper,
iDVD is "not" slow (nor fast) encoding (actually transcoding) audio. iDVD relies on the Quicktime framework. iDVD invokes an external library from the set of resources provided by QT.
If the encoding appears to be slow. It may find its root in various origins. First, MacOSX is a Unix system. Unix is not "preemptive". It means that access to resources occurs thanks to a "good will" mode between processes (to make things short). So, it may appear that some processes are stale, but things are usually well under control (by the kernel). So, don't be hasty in killing a process reported as "not responding".
If you consider that the encoding process takes too much time, there are ways to make things better. First: More RAM. No workaround to that. Give some room to your Mac. Keep also in mind to keep free room on hard drive at least equal to 2 1/2 times the amount of RAM of your system. The Unix kernel of your Mac handles a "swap" that is used to virtually create an amount of RAM larger than what your system physically has. The kernel simply uses your hard-drive as buffer to store copies of RAM blocks occupied by portions of code or data not currently active. If all this is too small, the kernel will spend an awful amount of time dealing with the short space (RAM + free disk space for swap).
One way to figure out if you're in such case is to use one of the many administration tools available to you. Open Terminal (or a X11 xterm) and type 'top' (without quotes).
Check the last line of the header for the "pageouts" indicator. If the number in parenthesis is not zero (0), repeatedly, it means that your kernel is swapping memory block from the physical RAM to the virtual RAM stored on the hard drive (swapping).
Hit 'q' to quit top. You can also try 'top -o cpu'. This will get you which process is currently running requesting the most CPU resources. Normally, on a Unix system, if one process needs CPU and is mostly the only one at the moment asking for CPU, it can be allocated most of the available CPU time and jumps to over 80%. If you consider this "abnormal", just look at the "Load Avg." indicator. It tells you how many processes are "waiting" for their turn to access the CPU - it's averaged throughout the time, through 3 numbers. Remember the "good will" mechanism. If it remains low (up to 3, for a household Mac), then, do not worry. If it goes above, then try to quit some other user applications. An idle system reports numbers below 1.
These few sysadmin tips will tell you a lot about your system's health. Perhaps, you'll figure out by yourself what's wrong. For sure, not iDVD
Try perhaps upgrading to QT 7. There are benefits to that.
T.

Burning hangs up at "Encoding Audio"

Hello Folks,
I have a 28 minute iMovie with video, photos, and audio. When I try to burn it on iMovie, it stops at the "Encoding Audio" stage, and I have to force quit. I can't find anything wrong with the iMovie file, as it plays fine in iMovie.
Any ideas? I sure need an answer, as this is an important video project.
Thanks,
Kevin
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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.
Another trick is to export back to your camera and then import from the camera into a new iMovie project, add chapters, export to iDVD.
When we add audio to an iMovie project, it takes iDVD a long time to render the movie. Exporting to Quicktime or your camera combines the added audio to the video. For some reason, this makes it easier for iDVD to prepare for burning.
Do a search in this forum for "audio encoding" to read all the posts regarding this problem.

Encoding Audio delay using iDVD ...

Why are Apple not rectifying this bug?
iDVD appears, even to the most advanced user, to have crashed when it comes to the Encoding Audio section. But it hasn't. Let it run. Yes I know that even if you check the Force Quit menu it shows iDVD as "not responding" but it is working.
Come on Apple - sort this out.
MacBookPro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

iDVD 6 Encoding audio "delay." So am I supposed to believe that iDVD is actually "working" on encoding the audio even when after 12 hours it says in the Force Quit menu that iDVD is "not responding" and there's a spinning cursor?? Balderdash!
I have spent the greater part of the last 3 days trying to finish off a massive project for my family: transferring all our old home videos to DVD. Actually, I spent many many additional hours adding a soundtrack with songs and sound effects to these silent movies. And all for nothing!
Trying to fix the problem of iDVD stopping responding during audio encoding, we bought a 500 Gb hard drive to clear up more space on the hard drive: $$!
I even tried turning off the audio track and just burning the dvd without it. Not even that worked! It still freezes up.
APPLE, if you are listening. PLEASE PLEASE FIX THIS. This was to be my Christmas Gift to the family, and your product has FAILED.
powermac g5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Idvd freezing before it starts encoding audio

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.
Sooner or later iDVD will finish!

IDVD-IMOVIE - encoding audio

IDVD Application stops responding when encoding audio from Imovie. Any suggestions would be helpful. I've made IDVD projects successsfully before, but can not get this project past audio encoding. I've tried exporting and sharing - but no avail.

iMovie help screen advises - "For the best compatibility with iMovie HD transitions, effects, titles, and the Ken Burns Effect, you should record your video with 48 kilohertz (kHz), 16-bit audio. Check your camera's manual for instructions on setting the audio bit rate and depth."
I’ve experimented with a ten minute movie with added audio. I set the sample rate at 48,000 khz and experienced no audio encoding stalling in iDVD.
So, if you use music you imported into iTunes, make sure the iTunes preference is set at 48,000 khz. The default is 44K.
With your present iMovie project, export as Quicktime and select "Expert Settings", click on "Options", click on "Sound settings" and set the sample rate at 48,000 khz and the sample size at 16 bit. (Also make sure the Video is set for DV/DVCPRO). Once you have this exported version of your movie, insert it into a new iMovie project, add chapters, and then go to iDVD. I can’t guarantee it will work but its worth trying.
Previously, I suggested to people to export to a DV format video camera and then insert the movie into a new iMovie project. It would result in quick audio encoding in iDVD. I recently found that my video camera exports the sound at the 48K khz sample rate, further supporting that the problem maybe the sample rate.

Ffmpeg ERROR: audio conversion failed: Unknown encoder 'libmp3la

While i use youtube-dl script with -x --audio-format mp3 option i get this error:
ERROR: audio conversion failed: Unknown encoder 'libmp3lame'
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local/lame 3.99.5-2
A high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder
local/twolame 0.3.13-7
An optimized MPEG Audio Layer 2 (MP2) encoder
[bahaa@Bahaa ~]$

teckk wrote:
If you are trying to dump the audio from a youtube video with ffmpeg, and encode it to .mp3, troubleshoot what isn't working the way you wish.
Start by seeing if youtube-dl is working.
You can get the formats the video is available in with:
youtube-dl -F http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123456789
You can usually get audio only using
youtube-dl -f 140 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123456789
That will be .aac or .m4a audio
You can leave it like that or to reencode to .mp3
Check if ffmpeg is working.
ffmpeg -i file.m4a -c:a libmp3lame -b:a 128k Oufile.mp3
Or if you have a video file that you want to dump the audio from into .mp3
ffmpeg -i file.mp4 -vn -c:a libmp3lame -b:a 128k Outfile.mp3
If you get an error about lame then check if lame is installed
pacman -Ss lame
Post if ffmpeg works ok for you.
[bahaa@Bahaa ~]$ youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzjOPtInf1c
[youtube] Setting language
[bahaa@Bahaa ~]$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzjOPtInf1c
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] Confirming age
[youtube] MzjOPtInf1c: Downloading webpage
[youtube] MzjOPtInf1c: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] MzjOPtInf1c: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Why Do We Blink-MzjOPtInf1c.mp4
[download] 100% of 36.64MiB in 00:49
[bahaa@Bahaa ~]$ ffmpeg -i Why\ Do\ We\ Blink-MzjOPtInf1c.mp4 -vn -c:a libmp3lame -b:a 128k Outfile.mp3
ffmpeg version N-66269-g5eef704 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
built on Sep 14 2014 16:02:01 with gcc 4.9.1 (GCC)
configuration:
libavutil 54. 7.100 / 54. 7.100
libavcodec 56. 1.100 / 56. 1.100
libavformat 56. 4.101 / 56. 4.101
libavdevice 56. 0.100 / 56. 0.100
libavfilter 5. 1.100 / 5. 1.100
libswscale 3. 0.100 / 3. 0.100
libswresample 1. 1.100 / 1. 1.100
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'Why Do We Blink-MzjOPtInf1c.mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand : mp42
minor_version : 0
compatible_brands: isommp42
creation_time : 2014-10-17 18:20:58
Duration: 00:02:51.34, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1793 kb/s
Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 1599 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 30k tbn, 59.94 tbc (default)
Metadata:
handler_name : VideoHandler
Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 192 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
creation_time : 2014-10-17 18:20:59
handler_name : IsoMedia File Produced by Google, 5-11-2011
Unknown encoder 'libmp3lame'
[bahaa@Bahaa ~]$ pacman -Ss lame
extra/lame 3.99.5-2 [installed]
A high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder
community/flam3 3.0.1-4
Tools to create/display fractal flames: algorithmically generated images and animations
community/toolame 02l-10
An optimized mpeg 1/2 layer 2 audio encoder
community/twolame 0.3.13-7 [installed]
An optimized MPEG Audio Layer 2 (MP2) encoder
[bahaa@Bahaa ~]$

IDVD does crash when encoding audio

I have been reading a large number of posts regarding iDVD freezing, having a spinning beachball, and hanging while encoding audio. I have not been able to find a post where it discusses the crashing/unexpected quitting of iDVD. I have tried a couple of times to get the burning process started, as I thought it may have been a small glitch, but to no avail.
Should I follow the steps marked out in:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=335417&tstart=30
I usually complete the final process of iDVD with all Energy Saving and Screen Saver preferences set to "Never". I usually would delete encoded assets, but I did not have time before I went to work to try a third time.
This is the first time it has happened to me and I have completed about three projects successfully since updating to iDVD 6.0
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Rodger

SUCCESS (But it took a while!)
When I arrived home form work, the first thing I did was to remove Flip4Mac using its uninstaller. This had no effect. iDVD still crashed bringing up the crash report dialogue box.
So I followed the instructions from http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=335417&tstart=30
I also repaired permissions (nothing to report there) and deleted encoded assests. Finally, I replayed my DVD project in the iDVD's preview/test section. The audio was out with the video. For some strange reason, my brain told me that the syncing between audio and video was the main thing to blame. So, I had a quick think and decided to remove all the fade ins and fade outs from my original iMovie project, remove all chapter markers, save the project, replace the chapter markers and then open the original iDVD file shared from this iMovie project. Then, clicked OK to update file to match, deleted encoded assests.
I do not know which part worked for me, but I woke this morning with a completed DVD (which is still to be tested in a DVD player).
Thanks for all the assistance and advice, I'll keep this post unresolved in case someone else has a full crash of iDVD.
Rodger GW
PS I think Apple are a little sick of seeing my crash report coming through with the answer to "What were you doing when the application crashed?" being "Just trying to encode audio!!"
RGW

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.
I know its not the machine or RAM, as my iBook also does the same.
I'm sitting here having now waited 24 hours for it to finish - but it hasnt.
I know its doing something, as I've opened the package contents of the iDVD file and I can see 'tempmovie.mov' very slowly increase in size.
But I've burned many films before (in previous ilife verions), and to wait for such a long period is not right.
My last major project involved the burning of an AVI type file of 90 minutes, and it took a single overnight processing session to sort that out.
It must be the fact its an iMovie film thats causing problems, but can someone advise me how to speed it up ?
I am assuming it will finish, and I'll have a pristine DVD (lol)
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.
Any help from anyone would be appreciated, but none of this trash the preferences or whatever as that does not work.
Its a bug, and the sooner a patch is released, the better we will all be.
Thanks
iMac Flat Panel & iBook Mac OS X (10.4.7)
iMac Flat Panel & iBook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

The same effect on a brand new MacBook! iDVD 6.02 is hanging. Spin Ball does't turn anymore. Terminal >top shows 100% on the processor.
Processes: 85 total, 3 running, 82 sleeping... 284 threads 16:38:22
Load Avg: 0.99, 1.12, 1.10 CPU usage: 53.4% user, 8.5% sys, 38.1% idle
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
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
688 top 13.9% 0:01.73 1 18 22 1008K 296K 1.41M 26.9M
374 iDVD 100.3% 62:46.50 18 257 1131 78.9M 30.0M 76.4M 303M
Regards Rolf
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1G Ram

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.

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.
I have a 15 minutes project (almost 2 GB) iMovie show that I've attempted to burn to DVD through iDVD (4 times with the same problem)...
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)...
Any help or ideas? I need to get this done ASAP...
Thanks
Chris

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).
Do yourself a favor and run this app while burning you project. When you get to the point where it appears to hang on you check the status of iDVD in the activity monitor window. More than likely it will show that iDVD is still using a good % of your CPU (%CPU column numbers will constantly change as iDVD demands more or less from your processor). You may also notice that it may show that iDVD is not responding (as well as a couple other processes that are related to the prog), this doesn't mean a thing because iDVD is in reality still chugging along. Of course if the %CPU column is showing 0.00 then iDVD has indeed stopped workin in which case you do have some issues.
Hope this helps

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