Writing lead-out never finishes
Weird problem.
Project burns correctly, but iDVD 5 will sit on "Writing lead-out" forever. The first time this happened, I forced-quit iDVD 5, but could not eject the disk. I waited about 30 minutes before I forced-quit, then rebooted the system. I was able to eject the disk than, and it worked perfectly in my set top DVD player, as well as in the DVD player app.
Tried to burn again, this time let iDVD run overnight. Woke up this morning to see it still "writing lead-out". As before, the disk worked perfectly, but it required a force-quit/reboot in order for me to eject.
What's going on, and how do I fix it? This is a new clean install of 10.4, just wiped the system last week.
'Writing lead-out' can take a long time - especially on 'short' discs - but overnight is too long.
I suppose you could have a media problem or write speed problem (either of which can produce lots of burn errors).
Have you tried creating a disk image instead of writing directly to writable media?
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IDVD 09' Freezes when writing lead-out.
Everything seems to work fine until it gets to "writing lead-out" it then seems to freeze up, after about 15-20 minutes it will eject my dvd disc, the screen stays the same as if it's still writing the lead-out. When i play back the dvd disc it stops playing about 1 minute into the movie. but if i play the copy on my hard drive (the one i'm trying to burn to disc) it works fine. Any ideas? Thanks for your time.
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP41.00C1.B03Hi DJHYPE
Welcome to apple discussions. Sorry to hear you are having troubles burning to Dvd-R.
Suggestion: Let's narrow things down a bit. Try burning a disc image first to the desktop. You can do that from the file menu within iDvd. Next I'd like you to test the disc image with apple's dvd player app. Assuming it plays as expected, then burn to Verbatim, Maxell, or Tiaiyo Yuden at 4x. Please avoid Memorex while trobleshooting. Thereafter / once we have the issue resolved, feel free to burn to whatever media works best for you and your mac.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1583?viewlocale=en_US
Hope this helps but if not just come on back.
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Has anyone else experienced this? I'm simply burning a disc with a :30 clip as the sole title and it's the first play. The encoding seems to go along fine, but the writing lead-out takes forever. When I force quit the app, I can't eject the disc without rebooting. When I test the disc, it plays fine.
Am I doing something wrong or is this a software issue?Has anyone else had trouble with certain brands of media?
You can find here info * about quality media *. You can use Toast to read the manufacturer ID in your media to double check its not a fake one. Try to use allways first quality media.
Besides that, you must find your best combination of madia brand + burner. In my personal case, I found the best results using Sony DVD-R . . . the ones that don't work for you !
You can try * Creating Disc Image in DVDSP * and burning with Toastand/or Disk Utility.
Hope that helps !
Alberto -
"Writing lead-out" seems to take forever - ten minutes anyway. Why? Is there a way to speed this up? I had a two minute DVD that I can burn quickly but then writing lead-out goes on and on.
Thanksand it will go on and on.
What is surprising, is that the longer the DVD, the shorter the write out.
But writing the lead out on really short DVDs takes a bunch of time. No way to speed it up.
best wishes
David
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IDVD (and Toast) never complete writing lead-outs
Hi,
I've noticed occasionally that when using Toast 7 and iDVD 6 that during the writing process, the application in question persists on writing the lead-out. I understand what the correlation between lead-out and DVD playing length are. However, the drive just spins and spins for hours if left to do so. It is a Pioneer DVR-109 (not Apple blessed). The media is Memorex DVD-R 16x and I frankly haven't spent time trying other media yet.
I'm unable to halt the spinning by any means other than rebooting the computer. Usually, the result is fine. Sometimes the DVD doesn't conclude viewing properly.
Any thoughts? Thanks!Yup, the Memorex disks have been a bit problematic. I was able to burn to an image with iDVD.
I happened to have some TEON DVD-R 8x media a friend gave for another project, and that worked fine. The Memorex 16x media burned at 8x had the same issue.
I had had poor experiences with Verbatim media in the past. But co-workers have raved about the DL disks and the single-layer ones lately. Perhaps I will give them a try.
Thanks! -
Howdy All,
I am using iDVD6 to burn a project to RIDATA DVD+R DL discs. The burn in iDVD6 90% of the time fails at the end (no error logs). However, after playing the DVD on a number of players (computer and dedicated) the DVD seems to be fine (all aspects - movie, slides, finish etc).
A hint at the problem may be that when I use Toast to burn data to the same discs it fails at writing the "Lead-Out" with Mac OS Error -5001. Searching the Internet hasn't really told me much about either of those (Lead-Out) or Mac OS Error -5001.
Burns have worked fine on the Samsung TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182D DVD Burner before, with other media (Imation DVD+R DL). However, writing the lead-out also failed on an Imation disc when retrying it after it failed on a RIDATA disc. DVD burns the Imation succeed.
Would anyone have any idea of what is happening? Can I just ignore the problem? Is there any easy way I can do a bitwise compare of the DVD and, say, a disk image? Does iDVD do a verify of the burn (although having it tell me the burn failed isn't a good sign if it does)?
If this is a media issue, which I assume it is (although the Imation failing is a problem), what has it go to do with writing the lead-out?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions, experience, comments.
Cheers,
Ashley Aitken.Hi Klaus,
Thanks for that, I kind-of guessed what "lead out" was about but thanks for giving all the details.
You don't provide any information on what Mac you
have, what OS, how much RAM (example: see my profile
at the bottom of this post), which would help a lot
in diagnosing your problem.
Power Mac G5 - original single CPU model (can't recall the speed) with 2GB RAM etc.
New Samsung DVD Burner (as indicated in previous post), original drive didn't burn dual layer disks.
I've since found that my "backup" with Toast (spanning multiple DVD+R DLs) that failed the Lead Out actually bit-compares with the original.
As the DVDs which failed also seem to work fine in DVD players and on the computer, I wonder if this is really a significant error.
Many here find that Verbatim DVD-R, as well as Fuji
DVD-R, give the fewest problems, even more so when
they are burned at only 2x or 4x.
Thanks that info - its unfortunate we have to burn at slower speeds than the drive is rated - kind of beats the purpose ...
I've previously had pretty good results with Imation DVD+R DL but wanted something that was inkjet printable (DL).
I could only find RiData locally. I now know that they are though of as second tier media, so perhaps the media is the problem.
Cheers,
Ashley. -
Writing Lead-out takes forever
Well, this did not use to happen but now whenever I try to burn a DVD in my MBP using Toast Titanium 7 - data or video DVD, about 4G worth of material - the programme takes forever to write the lead out. Also, the burning itself is very slow (I'm not talking compressing here. Just burning). I've tried different brands (the same brands I've been using for ages) - Sony, Maxell, Benq - but it's been slow with all of them.
I don't think this is an issue with Toast since I can burn DVDs as usual using Toast in my good ol' iMac.
Has anyone experienced something similar? Does anyone know what's happening?
TIA
DanI have been having the same problems with the lead-out, but it is inconsistent. It took forever for me to finish a burn in DVD Studio Pro, then I used popcorn to rip a couple of copies of it and the first copy burned as usual, the second took for bloody ever to finish out. Not sure what the deal is. I never had this problem with my 2.16 MBP CoreDuo, they are new to my Core2Duo machine. This was not the first DVD burning I have done, but the first time I have encountered the problem. Had burned from iTunes and Popcorn previously without problems over the past week. Not sure what the problem is, but if anyone figures it out, I would love to know!
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Writing lead out lasts forever
I have a 2.5 minute movie from Fianl Cut Express, that encodes and burns quickly, then takes 15-17 minutes to "write the lead out."
Is that normal?The important question is, does it burn correctly despite how long it takes?
If so, don't worry about the length. I have burned movies that were totally video only, about 1hr 50min that took over 24 hours to encode and burn. And, I have burned movies that were mostly photos and a few video clips to a total of say 25min. and it took about 10 hours to encode and burn. I think my system is less powerful than yours, but if you get a successful burn however you do it, that is the goal! -
Anyone know how to cut down on writing lead-out times with dvd-studio pro 4
Took about 7 min for a 30 sec clipThe reason that the shorter the clip is, the longer the lead out is because of what I posted earlier. The dvd spec requires a gig minimum of data/content. Not all burners/burning applications will hold true to that spec, so some might not experience the longer lead out times (which is the burning application adding dummy padding data to fill the gig up). If you are using media, then that type is 'approved' by the dvd consortium; and typically is the type of media that will result in the long lead out times (complying to spec). Depending on the speed of the media and burner, 7 minutes would be about right for 1 gig (since the 30 sec clip wouldn't take up much by itself).
If you use media (not 'officially approved by the dvd forum), then it's basically looked at as a data disc, and generally don't end up having the padding data added on; and hence they burn quicker.
Jim -
DVD Burning Freezes @ writing the lead out !
Has anyone experienced this? I burn disc all the time with no problem i have used all types of media, Apple disc are the best. but now it freeze at the lead out in DVDSP, Can any one help?
I can't help, but want to add my thoughts: mine used to work fine, now, when I get to the end, I get error messages; I've tried both native burning to the G5 and Toast. Since this is your thread, I'm going to post a separate one, so as not to detract from those who may know your specific difficulty, but boy they sound alike and I wanted to just say -- it's seems to be not exactly an uncommon problem. These are my error messages, I'm curious if they are the same as yours:
Toast:
The drive reported an error:
Sense Key = ILLEGAL REQUEST
Sense Code = 0x72, 0x03
SESSION FIXATION ERROR - INCOMPLETE TRACK IN SESSION
G5:
This disc did not verify correctly and is unreliable. Because this disc is unreliable, discard it and try again using a new, blank disc. (Error code 0x80020063) -
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Time machine never finishes a backup on macbook air
Hello
After setting up my Goflex NAS couple of days ago ,my macbookair and macbook pro both showed goflex external for time machine option and asked me if i want to do my time machine backup on that external drive which i answered yes and they both started to do the time machine backup on that drive.As for the macbook pro 15 which is on osx lion ,everything went fine and the backups did as smooth as possible on the schuduale.for macbook air was totally different .it is running on osx lion also .but it will not ever finish up any backups .the only time that it did finish the backup was the first time ,but even for that one ,when i open the time machine window from system pref. it shows the oldest backup none and the latest backup none. i just left it on automatic backup .it will automatically start the backup but never finishes the backup process and i have to shut down the computer in order to stop the bad process.does anybody has a solution for this.
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Live partition your external HD and make a 2nd partition of about 10-12 GB, call it installer. Then eject the hard drive.
Plug in your DVD drive, put in the installation disc. Fire up Disk Utility and make a new image with the DVD as your source material. Once this is done you'll have a disk image on your Desktop (or wherever you decided to save it). You'll then to scan the image for restore.
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Or as jochen2d recommended, you could go out and buy a $29 powered USB hub. -
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Welcome to the Support Communities!
The first thing I would suggest is to quit the iTunes Store app and sign out of your iTunes Store account on your iPad.
Then restart / reset the device.
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iOS: Force an app to close
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5137
iOS: Changing the signed-in iTunes Store Apple ID account
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1311?viewlocale=en_US
iOS: Turning off and on (restarting) and resetting
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1430
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Downloading past purchases from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
Hopefully, this will get you back on track ...
- Judy -
Blu-ray discs don't seems to write a 'lead-out'. Help!
Hi,
I am using Premiere Pro CS4 with Encore CS4. Up until now I have always used DVD's and not blu-ray discs and have never had a problem. I now film in full HD and would like to be able to build blu-ray discs in Encore.
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I have tried importing very short sequences so that I can watch the process, and I have noticed that unlike my DVD discs, the blu-ray doesn't seem to write a 'lead-out). It says it's complete but it's almost as if it doesn't finialise the disc for playback.
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More on Encore and Roxio http://forums.adobe.com/thread/528582?tstart=0 or direct to
http://kb.roxio.com/search.aspx?URL=/content/kb/General%20Information/000070GN&PARAMS -
hello
we are experiencing an very frustrating problem. we are burning a Dual Layer disk with a one hour video, and a slide show. We have followed all of the pointers listed here about compatible file types and audio files. When we go to burn the disk it goes through all the processes until we get to "Burn" and then it simply ejects our disk (we have tried several different blank disks) and it gives the following message, "Current operation: Writing lead-in..." . the progress bar keeps going but nothing happens. Even if we put the disk back in this message remains.
We have tried the same process on the imac internal DVD burner as well as an external Sony DVD burner with the same result.
Does anyone know what "Writing lead-in" means and can you guess what might be causing idvd to eject our disk at this point?
Thanks in advance.
Bruce TronoHi Bruce!
For what it is worth, 'Lead In':
Marks the start of each session on the disc.
The process of writing a lead-in and lead-out is called disc fixation and it generates a new disc session.
On CD media it is the area that contains the TOC data and precedes each program area. The main channel in the Lead-in area contains audio or data null information. This area is coded as track zero. The Q Sub-channel in this area is coded with the Table of Contents information.
The DVD Lead-in area is the area comprising physical sectors 1.2 mm wide or more adjacent to the inside of the Data area. The area contains the Control data and precedes the Data area.
Which helps not a lot in diagnosing your problem!
Like F Shippey asked, what media are you using, and are you sure you have a superdrive that can burn dual layer disks?
Indeed, why are using dual layer disks when the project is only one hour long?
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