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[rmoore9915]

After successfully burning hundreds of DVDs, I'm suddenly having a problem. When burning a video_ts folder, the project begins compressing normally and will display an amount of time to finish compressing. When checking on the project a few minutes later, it will have suddenly begun writing. The writing and verification finish. When I check the finished product I discover that not all of the DVD is there, just  part of it. Instead of compressing the 6-7 GB file to 4.33 GB or so, there will only be 1-2 GB on the incomplete DVD. It doesn't happen every time but it's happening often and I'm losing a lot of good media. Any ideas if it's something I can fix?

[tsantee]

One thing you can do to prevent wasting discs is to choose Save as Disc Image instead of clicking the burn button. That way you can see that everything was completed before burning the disc image using the Image File setting in the Copy window.

I don't know why this is happening. Try changing your Energy Saver settings so that the hard drive can't go to sleep during the time it takes to do this. If you can replicate this probelm please post more information such as the Toast and OS versions, what Mac you're using, what was used to rip the VIDEO_TS, available HDD space and anything else you might think could help.

[flatmacsurf]

I am having a similiar problem during DVD Copy.  It is a not a copy protected disc and have copied this same disc many times before, but it now stalls at around the 2:00 mark.  The app totally freezes and does nothing.  I even had trouble force quitting.

The DVD is about 90% copied and plays fine until it just ends.  I'm running Mac OS 10.3.9 and Roxio Toast 7.1

I also have Popcorn which gives me error code 108 (not enough memory).  I have 34 G of space left and 768 RAM.  

Any ideas?

Steve
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[tsantee]

flatmacsurf, on Jul 29 2006, 08:21 AM, said:

I am having a similiar problem during DVD Copy.  It is a not a copy protected disc and have copied this same disc many times before, but it now stalls at around the 2:00 mark.  The app totally freezes and does nothing.  I even had trouble force quitting.

The DVD is about 90% copied and plays fine until it just ends.  I'm running Mac OS 10.3.9 and Roxio Toast 7.1

I also have Popcorn which gives me error code 108 (not enough memory).  I have 34 G of space left and 768 RAM.  

Any ideas?

Steve
My Webpage

The not enough memory error appears when trying to burn a DVD from a VIDEO_TS folder that is missing something that should be in it. This typically happens when someone rips a commercial DVD and chooses to delete some of the content from the VIDEO_TS. Obviously that isn't an issue when trying to copy from an unencrypted DVD. So why this is happening to you is puzzling. The most likely culprits are either that the disc is smudged or scratched in a way that the DVD drive can't read it properly, or that the DVD drive's laser is dirty or the drive is failing in some way. I'd clean the disc and get a laser-cleaning disc for the drive to see if one of those steps fixes the problem.

[flatmacsurf]

tsantee, on Jul 29 2006, 11:41 AM, said:

The not enough memory error appears when trying to burn a DVD from a VIDEO_TS folder that is missing something that should be in it. This typically happens when someone rips a commercial DVD and chooses to delete some of the content from the VIDEO_TS. Obviously that isn't an issue when trying to copy from an unencrypted DVD. So why this is happening to you is puzzling. The most likely culprits are either that the disc is smudged or scratched in a way that the DVD drive can't read it properly, or that the DVD drive's laser is dirty or the drive is failing in some way. I'd clean the disc and get a laser-cleaning disc for the drive to see if one of those steps fixes the problem.

Thanks for this advice.  I'll get a laser cleaning disc this evening and report back on the results.  I got your reply in the other thread as well and it all makes sense.  

Steve
My Webpage

Edited by flatmacsurf, 29 July 2006 - 12:52 PM.

[rmoore9915]

Still not sure exactly what was going on here, but I think the problem occurred due to ripping the DVDs to an external hard drive that was experiencing a problem. There were errors for one file in each of the video folders that would prevent even copying the folder to another drive. When burning, the DVD would apparently stop compressing when it reached the bad file and begin burning what had been compressed to that point. Re-ripped files to another drive have been successfully burning. I also erased and reformatted the problem drive and it now appears to be working as well.