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

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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.
Any thoughts??

you can use mp3 ...it will simply take longer to encode though ......
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61636
btw ... don't convert mp3 to aiff (that would be doing things backwards). For example, read these links:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=795036&#795036
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1049799&#1049799
Hope this helps.

Multiplexer/burning error

I'v used idvd many a time but this time idvd goes right through it's process (rendering etc) and as its starts to burn to dvd a window scroll's down saying "BURNING FINISHED, Errors were found during the burning process. The Error -34506 was reported. Multiplexer error, There was a problem during Multiplexing/burning"

welcome Qbjoekinobe to the  board…
forum member John Beatty once answered/solved this problem:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1298733&#1298733

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

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

Burning-error#1, Multiplexing?

I have been trying to burn a proj. in idvd,and have been successful in the past, now I keep getting an error message, "problem with multiplexing" or errors have been found, error #1. I have tried 4 different dvd's, the type I've used before ( maxell) and just don't know if it's a problem with the project or a burning issue? Help?!

Sounds like a burning problem...
mag media DVD+R
I recommend a disk image burned to Verbatim DVD-R at 4X or slower using Toast or Disk Utility.
David Pogue also recommends Verbatim on page 356 of his latest book:
iMovie HD & iDVD 6: The Missing Manual
Quoting David: "Cheaper brands don't use the same amount of organic dyes and are more likely to suffer premature deaths."
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save as Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/18.html
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/image_to_diskstone.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

Multiplexing/Burning Issues.

Grrr..iLife '06, what a dissapointment! I now have 3 machines that won't write DVD's..and yes, they did before. <end of rant>
On my Powerbook 1.33 (the only machine where iDVD doesn't almost immediately crash) it will go through a LONG rendering and encoding process and somewhere along the way spit the disk out with the messages: Burning Finished Errors were found during the buring process. The twirl down arrow then says: "The recording device reported the media error: Power calibration area error. (0x73, 0x03.)"
Other times it does the same thing with the message that errors were found in the multiplexing/burning process.
The program then continues 'burning' w/out a disk, is unresponsive and in most cases has to be force quit.
I've tried 2 different DVD's thinking I might've had a bad one.
Ideas?
G5 1.8, G4 PB, eMac Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Thanks for the response. I did all that (from that post earlier today..fonts and such) and believe it or not, the problem appears to be the media. I was trying to use printable Memorex DVD's and they just won't work on this machine... When I switched over to 'regular' Imation 8x DVD-R's.. The disk wrote just fine.
Now I gotta see if I can get this working on the G5 since it seems to like the printable disks just fine.
Weird stuff.

Another headache - "problem during multiplexing/burning - buffer underun"

Hello,
After many iDVD issues, I finally got the burning process of my DVD project.. half way through it spit my DVD out and gave me these errors:
"Errors were found during the burning process:
The recording device reported the illegal request: Buffer underrun. (0x21, 0x02.)
There was a problem during multiplexing/burning."
What is this supposed to mean and how can I just burn my DVD?!
Thank you
Chris

It's been awhile since I had this error crop up, but I know 2 things that caused it for me.
1) Bad DVD media. It happened a lot when I was using some cheap, off brand DVD-R's. More expensive Sony DVD's (white) are much better and more consistent. The time wasted with bad burns from bad DVD media is not worth the time.
2) It could even be a problem with your DVD burner going bad, but not as likely. I did have one SuperDrive replaced because I started having problems even with good, recommended brands of DVD media. However, try getting some better media first. Don't buy a lot. Try out a small package of DVD-R's or buy a disc from a friend to try out a brand.
Another possibility: Lack of sufficient, free hard drive space. Here's what iDVD 6's help file states:
"When you burn a DVD, iDVD needs temporary space on your hard disk to store the encoded files for your project. To burn your iDVD project to a single-layer DVD disc, you should have 8-10 gigabytes (GB) of free disk space on your hard disk, depending on the size of your project. For double-layer discs, you need 15-20 GB of free disk space."
Apple's support forum describes "buffer underrun" in more detail at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25750
You might also want to defragment your hard drive (with a 3rd party utiility such as TechTool Pro) so that you don't have a fragmented hard drive when burning a project.
Speed rating of the DVD media- I've seen reports that some SuperDrives work best with media rated the same as it's maximum burn speed (e.g.- 4x, 8x, etc). I would recommend trying to find media that matches your SuperDrive burn speed, or no more than twice the burn speed.
I hope this helps.
You didn't mention which version of iDVD you were using or which operating system. Sometimes other users have tips for you based on that info.

IDVD having problems "during multiplexing/burning"

Help please:
iDVD is not burning DVDs for me.
it goes through the whole process seemingly fine, then at the end shows the error message: "problem during multiplexing/burning".
I have a G4 emac. 800 Mhz 10.3.9
external Lacie dvd burner (that burns fine on wife's imac)
I was having this problem earlier, then erased the hard drive to start clean. Didn't seem to help.
I upgraded the Lacie driver, etc too.
thoughts?
R

Ah then if Toast has a connection issue and iDVD is having issues when burning, it would appear that your issue is unrelated to iDVD and instead a system or hardware problem. Unfortunately that might be too hard to diagnose here in this forum, at least not with a ton of non-iDVD related back and forth questions and answers.
Did you play the disc image on your computer to see if the titles made it into the disk image? My guess if they didn't make it onto the DVD blank, then they are not in the disk image either, although maybe they were?
Patrick

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

Multiplexer prep error with audio

I am trying to burn a DVD and when I click 'burn' the message:
multiplexer prep error pops up saying that there is not enough free disk for encoding the remaining assets. When I remove the motion (audio) I am able to burn the DVD, but would like the music as well. My project is showing that it is only 15:35 minutes long.
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?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42724

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

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).

Multiplexor/Burn errors

Since I can't imagine that I am the only one that experienced this problem I thought I would post this small piece of advice to anyone who is receiving the following error message when attempting to burn a DVD in iDVD 6.
Multiplexor Error
There was a problem during multiplexing/burning.
While I realize there may be a multitude of reasons for getting this error message, my solution was twofold:
1) Saving the project as a Disc Image and using Disc Utility to burn the DVD and selecting a slower burn speed. iDVD doesn’t allow this.
2) Buying 8x or slower DVD-Rs. For some reason, 16x discs are not compatible, at least with my two Power Macs (single 1.8, dual 2.0).
First save your project as a Disk Image. Then exit iDVD and double click on the .img file to mount it. Open Disk Utility (found in the Applications folder, under Utilities.). The .img file you mounted should appear in the left-hand column. Highlight it by clicking once which will activate the burn button above. Click this Burn button. Insert a 8x (or slower) blank DVD-R. Click on the blue triangle button in the upper-right to display advanced options. Select a slower burn speed, perhaps 4x. Click Burn.
Like I said, this is just what worked for me. Good luck.

You can get this error by trying to burn a DVD too fast. Slow it down, using a disk image and Toast or Disk Utility.
Did you try Flash's first suggestion?:
1) Saving the project as a Disc Image and using Disc Utility to burn the DVD and selecting a slower burn speed. iDVD doesn’t allow this.
I tried making a "diskimage" using disk utility, and the one step in IDVD did not recognize it at all.
If you have a disk image, just burn a DVD. Forget OneStep in iDVD.
File/Save As Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
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. 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
G4 DP 1.25 GHz 2GB RAM 4 Drives 720GB Mac OS X (10.4.5) 2 SuperDrives (SL 8X & DL 16X)

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.

Multiplexing & Burning Error

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