[MacDV] Re: Buffer Underrun in iDVD

[sb]

In iDVD4, with background encoding enabled, if you hit the burn button
before the encoding was finished, it would not actually finish the encoding
or get to the burning. It would just tread water, so to speak, for hours and
hours. Not sure if every single person experienced this, but I know of many
- myself included the first time. A bug.

In iDVD5 it seems to be fixed, (though I have not checked it myself) so that
if you have background encoding checked and you do not wait until the
encoding is finished and hit the burn button, it will continue to encode
until complete and then finish the burn.

I recommend the OP archive the project, and then burn the archived version.
That way all the assets will be in one place.
And make sure you have at least 5GB of free space on the boot drive.

You might want to delete the encoded assets and let iDVD re-encode them.

 HTH,

 sb



On 2/28/05 5:38 PM, "Brett Conlon" <brett_conlon at sonymusic.com.au> wrote:

> I may be missing something but I don't believe the status of encoding
> showing DONE would cause the buffer underrun error.
> 
> As far as I know the process goes is that using background encoding simply
> helps speed up the final stage of burning a disc. If you don't have
> background encoding on (like me - it caused all sorts of performance
> probs) when you hit the burn button it will do all the encoding and
> transporting and escalating and myxomatosusing before creating a final
> disc image. It is not until the completed image is created that the
> burning to disc takes place, correct?
> 
> Disk fragmentation or other processor intensive tasks while burning would
> be the first places I'd look.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Coj
> 
> 
> 
> AnonBilly <anonbilly at dockpoint.net>
> 
> 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,