[MacDV] Re: Buffer Underrun in iDVD

[AnonBilly]

I am using Best Performance.  (With Best Quality, Background encoding 
is greyed out)  And I am using the background encoding.

The Status Tab did show DONE for all Assets.

Thanks for the support!

On Feb 27, 2005, at 10:18 AM, sb wrote:

> Are you using Best quality?
> Are you using Background encoding?
>
> Check the Status Tab and see if all your movies have completed encoding
> (DONE) before you hit the burn button, if you are using background 
> encoding.
>
> If you are using Best Quality and not background encoding, try to 
> Archive
> your project and then quit iDVD and open up the archived project and 
> burn
> that.
>
>  regards,
>
>  sb
>
>
> On 2/27/05 1:02 AM, "AnonBilly" <anonbilly at dockpoint.net> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to burn a DVD project and am receiving the following 
>> error:
>>
>> The recording device reported the illegal request:  Buffer underrun.
>> (0x21, 0x02.)
>>
>> I have searched the web, FAQs and when back thru 2 years of postings 
>> on
>> this list and have had no luck.
>>
>> I am using a 1 Ghz G4 with 2-120 GB hard drives (each with 20+ GBs to
>> spare) 2 GB RAM.  I am running OS 10.3.8 (Tried the burn once with
>> 10.3.4 before the upgrade)  I have iDVD 4.0.1 and iMovie 4.0.1.  I am
>> using Sony DVD-Rs that are 1x-4x compatible.  I have had success
>> burning a small project with iDVD and burning back-up movies with 
>> Toast
>> 6.
>>
>> After making my 3rd coaster, I noticed that the flaw always occurs
>> between 21:46:01 and 21:50:07 of the largest iMovie import.  (Not sure
>> that matters.)  The video stops playing at that point while the sound
>> continues.
>>
>> I have tried:
>>
>> Turning the Energy Saver to Never.
>> Turning off the Screen Saver.
>> Quitting all other applications (and leaving the computer alone.)
>> Restarting iDVD and the computer.
>> Cleaning the superdrive.
>>
>> The only things I have not tried are to recreate the project, as it is
>> a large project (lots of short clips) and buying 1x only DVDs.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help!
>> --
>> Billy M
>>
>> "There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand
>> binary and those who don't."
>>
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