[MacDV] Buffer Underrun in iDVD

[James Asherman]

On Feb 27, 2005, at 4:02 AM, AnonBilly wrote:

>  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."
>

What you need is to defragment your hard disc.
You need gigabytes of contiguous space to encode and burn. The lack of 
contiguous space causes the buffer underrun.  That is why a small 
project works, indicating that in general you are ok.
JIm