Incomplete Burn

[guztavee]

I have been trying to burn a DVD and I keep getting the same results:

 

Standard Def Disc

1.25 hours of AVI video

1 Audio track

1 slide show 70 slides and one Audio file

4 menus with audio clips

 

P4 3.4GHz

1GB memory

500GB of HDD

Pioneer 109 DVD Burner

PC is used stricly for Video and Audio work... No Internet or other apps installed other than DVDiT and Pinnacle Studio. (And no, I do not like Pinnacle's DVD authoring!)

 

When I attempt to burn the process goes well while transcoding and setting up files, but once it begins to burn the disc it burns for about a minute then the disc is ejected and asks to cancel and when I click on cancel nothing happens for a while after it syas that cancelling will take some time.

 

When I Simulate the disc it works fine and going thru the menus is flawless. Before adding the slideshow I did a test burn and it worked fine... but now it just does the afforementioned.

 

Thanks in advance... Any help would be appreciated.

[guztavee]

Thanks Plee I will try that also...

 

Is there a patch in the works for the EOF issue that you might know of. I would hate to have to go thru this all the time... LOL

[LFN]

As Scott has suggested build to volume and you don't have to worry about if it fits till you actually burn. And the size calculator does not always calculate correctly so another reason to build to volume and see what the actual size will be before burning.

 

If you scan back a few pages you'll see my pain with the EOF error

 

i found that burning to volume or to image didn't work, still would get an EOF error, only difference was didn't waste media. course could also get a hung application, but that's another pain

[SS Scott]

sounds like a conflict with your burner or media. did you try outputting a volume or image instead of going directly to disc? If that is successful you can then burn the results to disc with either DVDit or another program.

[guztavee]

Scott... Thanks for the quick response!

 

I just tried to do as you said and tried to burn Image and I got a Pop-Up saying the following after it began to write the files:

"End of File - 10003"

Any idea..???

[plee]

Thanks Plee I will try that also...

 

Is there a patch in the works for the EOF issue that you might know of. I would hate to have to go thru this all the time... LOL

 

If you have the latest version, that's pretty much it. I only use elementary streams and the EOF problem doesn't happen when I do it that way. So I would recommend everyone to do this, if you can't then try to import and if you get the EOF you'll have to demux.

[SS Scott]

can you tell me what build of DVDit Pro HD you are using? it is on the "About" screen. could be a newer build will take care of the "end of file" issue.

[LFN]

Thanks Plee I will try that also...

 

Is there a patch in the works for the EOF issue that you might know of. I would hate to have to go thru this all the time... LOL

 

 

I've confronted same eof issue sometimes with an application hang, sometimes without. my analysis & diagnostics made an overflow condition on expected output size one of the possible culprits. found that /dvdit Pro HD was miscalculating the output size--it wouldn't fit on the disc. haven't really explored the tolerances but try backing off on the percent fill settings, such as changing, lowering the bit rate, etc. i've found about a 25mb margin seems to work. exact same project that got an eof hang burned fine to completion when i reset bitrate and left about 50mb unused space on the disc.

[guztavee]

Thanks Again Scott:

 

Version 6.3 630B91A

[plee]

I've confronted same eof issue sometimes with an application hang, sometimes without. my analysis & diagnostics made an overflow condition on expected output size one of the possible culprits. found that /dvdit Pro HD was miscalculating the output size--it wouldn't fit on the disc. haven't really explored the tolerances but try backing off on the percent fill settings, such as changing, lowering the bit rate, etc. i've found about a 25mb margin seems to work. exact same project that got an eof hang burned fine to completion when i reset bitrate and left about 50mb unused space on the disc.

 

As Scott has suggested build to volume and you don't have to worry about if it fits till you actually burn. And the size calculator does not always calculate correctly so another reason to build to volume and see what the actual size will be before burning.

 

If you scan back a few pages you'll see my pain with the EOF error

[plee]

Thanks Again Scott:

 

Version 6.3 630B91A

 

try demuxing your footage (separate video and audio files), usually this will prevent the error.

 

The EOF error is a known issue.