Multiplexer Prep Error

When I attempt to burn a DVD project I get an error "Not enough free disc space..." I only have 1- 28minute movie in iDVD, how can I be out of space. I also have 1- 50 minute movie in iMovie, does this effect the free space? Where or how can I find out the amount of space availible? thank You

I would get and external hard drive and keep all your media files on that.
The project file should be on your hard drive, but all the associated media, which is what takes up all the space, should be on the external drive.
External firewire drives are really necessary if you want to make long movies. Check for sales, and make sure you get a firewire drive and not a USB (it's faster).
Cheers, Shereen

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I am trying to burn a DVD and when I click 'burn' the message:
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Another question: I would like to be able to burn a DVD from a DVD - how do I do this? Can I do this?

How much free space on your hard drive? You should have 20GB+ free.
You want to copy an unprotected DVD?
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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

Multiplexer preparation error message

After transferring my iDVD 3.01 app from one G4 to another, I have prepared files on that machine for creating a DVD. When attempting to burn, I get an error message: "Multiplexer preparation error: Not enough free disk space for encoding the remaining assets"
This is puzzling, as the sole movie file is 11 GB and it resides in a partition with nearly 10 GB of remaining space available. I tried deleting the file from the iDVD project and moving the file to an empty 38 GB partition and then reimporting it to the project - same message.
I should add that as there is insufficient space on the Mac HD (startup disk) I have installed the 1.+ GB iDVD app on the aforementioned partition, as well as the project files. The 2nd G4 is old, and the startup disk is only 20 GB, though of course I've since added more and larger internal disks.
Any help appreciated,
Keith

After transferring my iDVD 3.01 app from one G4 to
another, I have prepared files on that machine for
creating a DVD. When attempting to burn, I get an
error message: "Multiplexer preparation error: Not
enough free disk space for encoding the remaining
assets"
That's pretty clear isn't it? Not enough free space. Creating DVDs requires LOTS of free hard disk space!
This is puzzling, as the sole movie file is 11 GB and
it resides in a partition with nearly 10 GB of
remaining space available. I tried deleting the file
from the iDVD project and moving the file to an empty
38 GB partition and then reimporting it to the
project - same message.
Did you recreate the iDVD project in the larger partition? It's probably presently stored in the Documents folder on the boot partition.
I should add that as there is insufficient space on
the Mac HD (startup disk) I have installed the 1.+ GB
iDVD app on the aforementioned partition, as well as
the project files. The 2nd G4 is old, and the
startup disk is only 20 GB, though of course I've
since added more and larger internal disks.
Mac OS X likes to have from 10% to 15% of a hard disk kept free for OS use ( I assume this means the partition that contains the OS).

Stage 4 Multiplexing - Media error in Power calibration 0x73,0x03

Try to burn a DVD the project I made. Everything is fine until it goes to stage 4 Multiplexing & Burning - the system shows a Media Error in the Power Calibration 0x73,0x03 when this come up it will eject the dvd. I never had a problem like this. System always worked fine. Any help on this? Thank you, John

Hi
As I remember it - it used to be when using Cheap Brands of DVDs e.g. Memorex or NoName ec.
Else
Multiplexing Error
Multiplexing error is a very complex problem due to many things (long long list following) - one common but not obvious reason is that material on the iDVD menu goes outside the TV-Safe area (or just touching it).
So first - turn on TV-Safe area and move any object well inside of this.
Wide screen stretched - usually (as I think) it is due to making a 4x3 movie in a 16x9 wide-screen project OR the other way around. This forces one to on flat-screen TV (or other) set the presenting view right - My has 4x3, wide-screen, zoom and auto-wide-screen and I have to switch this by my remote for some DVD I've made "wrong" way.
Now my long long list on Multiplex Error
LONG LONG LONG LIST
Multiplexing Error
PART One.
Use of strange video/audio material e.g. .avi, .wmv, .mp3 etc.
I only use.
Video - StreamingDV (miniDV tape via FireWire) and
Audio - .aiff (as on audio-CDs) (else converted to this .aiff 48KHz)
Photo - .jpg (.bmp known problematic)
Chapters !
A. Using strange letters in video project name e.g. +,/; etc. keep to a-z and 0-9 strange letters in project name e.g. +
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 gray 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 e.g. 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.
e.g. 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 wide-screen 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 Taiyo 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 tries, 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 sec's 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 e.g. 4x3 or 16x9
10. No other programs/applications running during iDVD process. e.g. Internet, screen & energy savers
Yours Bengt W

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Problem during burning multiplexing/burning error appers, please help!

I made a movie in imovie that is 1 hour long and contains still pictures and video. It also contains music all the way through it. I exported it to idvd then tried to burn it. It took almost 7 hours for it to get to the burn phase and then it pops up an error saying "problem during multiplexing/burning".
I have made movies in the past and this never has occured, and I have 30GB of HD space.
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you can use mp3 ...it will simply take longer to encode though ......
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61636
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1049799&#1049799
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Yes, 44GB is sufficient. I don't think space is the problem. I don't know about iMovie but iDVD can only use the boot drive for its scratch disk.
You might be getting that error due to some damage file in the project.
Try this basic troubleshooting fix :
1 - delete the IDVD preference file, com.apple.iDVD.plist, that resides in your
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I've read most everything and done most everything regarding the multiplexing burning errors.
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Dvd burns through and says it has been completed with a multiplexer error. Please help i need this information as soon as possible.

Hi mryan:
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iDVD 4: "Multiplexer Preparation Error"
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93553
This article still applies even though it says iDVD 4.
You need to give us as much information about your mac, hard drive space, etc. for us to help further.
:)Sue

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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/18.html
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/image_to_diskstone.html
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

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Can someone please tell me what this means and how to fix it? When I attempte to burn a movie, during the multiplexing, the error message "Mac OS Error Result Code=-18775" appears. I am using Toast 8 Titanium and my burner is the Lacie d2 DVD RW Double Layer. It came with Toast 6 on it already, did upgrading to Toast 8 cause a problem?
Thank you for your help....

Hello Precise,
I found this on Roxio's support:
Mac Os X Error 18775
sorry if that is not related to your problem,
littleshoulders

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