Mac Os X Error 18775

[deadsirius]

Toast 6.1.1, Quicktime Pro 6.5.2, OS 10.3.9, G4 Mac Mini

 

I have 6 separate VIDEO_TS folders containing one movie each. I am trying to create a video disc image that contains all 6 with a menu. Once I have successfully created the image, I plan to use DVD2OneX to compress it down to a reasonable size before burning. I have done this before with no problems.

 

With the Video tab selected, I've dragged each folder into the window, and tweaked the menu information. All six folders are on one external firewire drive, and I've tried targetting another daisychained external drive, the drive itself, or the Mac's internal drive. Each time, I get the same behavior. It spends a few seconds muxing some of the first folder, but errors out when writing the disc image, with code -18775.

 

As I said, this has worked for me in the past, but now it doesn't. What is going wrong?

[stanf11]

I have seen that error when Toast found a problem with an MPEG file such as dropped frames. What I did in that case was convert the MPEG to a full-quality QuickTime movie and have Toast re-encode it. It also may be possible for you to edit out the trouble part with MPEG Streamclip. The problem can also happen at the end of the file so that trimming off a second of video and resaving the MPEG with MPEG Streamclip may fix the issue.

 

I was also occasionally running into that dreaded "Error 18775" after using MPEG Streamclip to edit a Tape>DVD continuous stream transfer into individual (television series) episodes (mpeg files). Converting the individual episodes to "full-quality QuickTime" movies wasn't practical because it then increased the size of each file markedly (thus reducing the number of episodes I could fit on a single DVD). So, I used your suggestion about trimming off (in each case it was at the beginning of the file) a second or two of video on the specific files (episodes) that triggered the "Error 18775" and that did the trick in every case! Many thanks!!!

[tsantee]

I have seen that error when Toast found a problem with an MPEG file such as dropped frames. What I did in that case was convert the MPEG to a full-quality QuickTime movie and have Toast re-encode it. It also may be possible for you to edit out the trouble part with MPEG Streamclip. The problem can also happen at the end of the file so that trimming off a second of video and resaving the MPEG with MPEG Streamclip may fix the issue.