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Friends,

 

I have Roxio 10 fully updated and have successfully burned projects to Memorex +R DL 8.5. Now suddenly after the lenghty encoding process, the actual writing begins as I can see the light activity. After a half hour or so, I get:

 

Failed to start the image writing operation Error while Burning Image

 

No code given. Most posts I've seen on this gives an abort error immediately after encoding. Mine at least TRIES to write then quits. It's done this twice (tried again thinking it was a fluke), the disc is no longer usable.

 

Thanks in advance for any submitted assistance.

 

- Paul

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Thanks for your quick reply. I'll try it tonight when I get home and advise of results for all to see. I hope that does it because I'd hate to waste another disc not to mention the time involved. The encoding process is EXTREMELY slow - like 10 to 12 hours, so I'll do it over night.

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Thanks for your quick reply. I'll try it tonight when I get home and advise of results for all to see. I hope that does it because I'd hate to waste another disc not to mention the time involved. The encoding process is EXTREMELY slow - like 10 to 12 hours, so I'll do it over night.

 

If it takes 10-12 hours then there is something wrong. Usually you can figure 1 hour of video = 1-3 hours encoding time depending on your system

Could you list you system specs especially video card.

Is your rendering method set to hardware or software? If set to one method, try the other. You can select the method using Tools then options.

Have you done a defrag of your hard drive, deleted all proxy files, cleared out the Temp files?

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Sorry it's been a while but here's the latest. First and foremost, thank you so much for offering the suggestion of changing rendering to software - it did increase the speed noticably. In my haste I forgot to creat an image file but the disc was completely written. Only problem was, not all my DVD players actually play the menu but will start at begining when I press 'play.' Good enough for me considering my major disappointment of having wasted discs.

 

The next attempt I made with 8.5 DL (after a successful 4.7, no probs) I remembered to also create an ISO file on my hard drive at the same time. This time it went back to failing to write!!!!! Same quitting after starting to write after the encoding process. I then tried to burn off the ISO file and it failed then too!!!!

 

Right back where I started! My question is: Does the fact that the ISO file was completed mean that the file is good? I really hate to go throught the encoding process again. Also, do you have enough information to recommend anything definative before trying again? At this point I'm so upset, I'm ready to look at Roxio's competitors for something better, rather than rewarding them with and upgrade.

 

Always, Paul

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Something must be wrong with my computer that doesn't allow writing to DL only. The ImgBurn didn't work and I tried Power to Go and got a failed description stating 'setting DVD+R DL disc Layer Jump address failed.' btw appreciate the ImgBurn tip. The iso file plays great off the emulated drive.

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Something must be wrong with my computer that doesn't allow writing to DL only. The ImgBurn didn't work and I tried Power to Go and got a failed description stating 'setting DVD+R DL disc Layer Jump address failed.' btw appreciate the ImgBurn tip. The iso file plays great off the emulated drive.

 

In your first post you stated you were using Memorex disc. Have you tried any other make? Memores are considered to be near the bottom of the barrel.

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The #$^@ thing just won't burn! I am able to play the ISO file from the emulated drive. Can I try to burn the file to disc using another product? What other recourse might I have? I just can't keep wasting discs like this! Thanks again as always.

 

Google for a free utility called ImgBurn. I use it for my iso burns.

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myguggi,

 

Here's the specs:

 

Emachines T3418

Windows XP Home Edition preinstalled version 2002, 2.01 GHz, 384 MB RAM

AMD Sempron processor 3400+

NVIDIA GeForce 6100, 256 MB memory

DirectX 9.0c

 

I changed rendering method from hardware to software and defragged again. Do you recommend trying now?

 

Thanks again, Paul

 

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myguggi,

 

Here's the specs:

 

Emachines T3418

Windows XP Home Edition preinstalled version 2002, 2.01 GHz, 384 MB RAM

AMD Sempron processor 3400+

NVIDIA GeForce 6100, 256 MB memory

DirectX 9.0c

 

I changed rendering method from hardware to software and defragged again. Do you recommend trying now?

 

Thanks again, Paul

 

Your system is definitely on the low end for doing video work, especially your RAM is much too low. Having changed to software rendering should definitely make a difference, I know it did for me.

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