Not Enough Free Disk Space on System Volume

Hello. I am using iDVD 5 on Mac OS X 10.4.11. The following error keeps coming up when I click the burn button: "Multiplexer preparation error: Not enough free disk space on system volume (need at least 1 GB)." I am confused because I have the project saved to MyBook and it has about 80 GBs of free space. According to the status pane my movie is 3.9 of 4.0 GBs. I've been struggling with this whole project for about 2 days now. Please help!! What should I do?

Welcome to the forums.
I assume your reference to "My Book" is an external hard drive. Firewire external drives work well to capture video and create iMovies, but the error message refers to the lack of space on your internal hard drive. You'll see a range of recommendations in this forum, but you need at least 5 gigs of space on your internal hard drive (the boot drive) for iDVD to create a DVD (the recommendations range up to 20 gigs of available space on the internal drive).
This space is used by iDVD as working space and to store the compressed version of your video. There isn't a way to designate your external drive as a scratch drive.
John

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993508 wrote:
Hi,
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I would like to open Window Media Viewer files (.wmv) and Adobe Reader files (.pdf) so I need these programs on my computer.
So as a secondary question, is there a program for Macs better suited to open and view .wmv and .pdf files?
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Don Archibald wrote:
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