iDVD Stops Burning; Never Finishes

Hi

Free space on internal boot drive ? How much ?

I secure a minimum of 25Gb to let iDVD work as intended (it can't use space on other disks)

10Gb might work but instable

10 - 5Gb slow and the resulting DVD might not even play

less 5Gb ridiculous times and most probably not a working DVD

Yours Bengt W

I have the same problem and currently have 82.92 GB available on my disk. Could there be another problem?

Hi

*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:*

• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb

• Hard disk is untidy: Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)

• Delete iDVD pref file - *or rather start a new user/account* - log into this and re-try

• Program miss-match: iDVD 5.0.2, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK - DON’T work under Leopard
• Program miss-match: iDVD 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match: iDVD’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)

• iDVD (08) v7 Locate theme folder. Move out iDVD1, iDVD 2 and eventually iDVD4 folders to desktop - re-try

• Try a Cleaning CD/DVD that cleans the laser lens on the DVD burner/player

iDVD 6.0.4 and iDVD 7.0.1 are compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

iDVD pref file resides: Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences and is named:
com.apple.iDVD.plist
While iDVD is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iDVD.

Last resort: from Craig: Solved the problem!! Finally!!
I deleted every iDVD application and folder from my boot drive,
emptied the trash and then installed iDVD 08 using the customize option
and I am up and running.

Yours Bengt W