"iDVD unexpectedly quit" while in step 3

Question

Well, first I believe it quits in step 3 because I have never seen it say step 4 but I come and go as it is burning.
The project is big-17 GB/66Minutes& therefore I am trying to burn on "best quality." I have been reading the posts for 2 weeks trying to find the problem-saw that I need over 20GB so I had 25GB Freed up before trying again with same result-"..Quit" Tried restarting comp & idvd with nothing else running. tried Macsweeper. I Pray it is not a problem in the slideshow-Running iDVD4.0.1 & Panther on my G4.

Answer 1

Hi Dillon
Virus - Very un-likely.
A confused hard disk - most likely: There are maintenance to do to all computers
Widows as Macs.
a. If You let Your Mac run from 00:00:00 to about 2 am there is an automated
sequence that runs and does some tidying up.
b. Other things to do:
- Repair Permissions (Apple Disk Util tool)
- Repair Hard disk (Apple Disk Util tool) - You need to start from CD/DVD or
one external hard disk
- Eventually: Start a new account - log into this and re-try.
The "Repair Permissions" is suggested by many of us in this forum to be run
- before a new instalment of programs AND
- after the instal.
c. Another thought: How much free space is there on Your hard disk.
- Mac OS needs about 10Gb just to keep everything open
- eg. iDVD needs about 15Gb more to do it's job
- the material to be processed eg. a movie file that iDVD should convert to
mpeg2 and a DVD-disk needs storage eg about 13Gb/hour
So You see it is really easy to get into "Low free space" - troubles.
If about 5Gb or less free - You would certainly get into strange problems.
Please - keep us updated on progress.
Yours Bengt W