This great internal muxing error...

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This great internal muxing error...

Hello All,
New to the board here...and I was wondering if any of you could shed some light on an issue I've been having. I keep on receiving an "Internal Muxing Error" when trying to build and format my project into an .img file. I've searched this in the boards and tried a few things. I've deleted the parsing files as well as replaced some of the assests. The thing that makes me thing I'm doing something else wrong is that it always happens in the exact same spot. I've got a basic menu with two sub menus. Each submenu has 6 seperate videos that I've put into one track to create a "play all" feature and then created stories and linked those to each button on the submenu. The error keeps on occuring right when it comes to the first track (entitled "CORN," exciting, I know) which contains as I said, 6 stories. I'm including a portion of my log to see if anyone can make heads or tails of it. when it comes to this part of the process I'm fairly inept. Any help would be greatly appercited. Many thanks,
Logisticated

Is this a big issue when working with an external drive? i'd move the project to my internal drive except it seems to alway stop in the same spot, prompting me to think that its an operator error, rather than a slow computer issue.

Starting DVD Build THE DVD_CONKLIN2...
Compiler Initializing...
Precompiling Project THE DVD_CONKLIN2
Compiling VMG Information...
Created 9 PGCs in VTSM1
Created 5 PGCs in VTSM2
Created 8 PGCs in VMG.
3 Menu(s) will be created...
Compiling Menu PGCs...
Compiling Menu#1 (MAIN MENU)...
Rendering Menu:MAIN MENU,Language:1...
Compiling Menu#2 (CORN MENU)...
Rendering Menu:CORN MENU,Language:1...
Compiling Menu#3 (SOYBEAN MENU)...
Rendering Menu:SOYBEAN MENU,Language:1...
Writing VIDEO_TS.VOB
Compiling Menu PGCs...
Writing VTS 020.VOB
2 VTSs and 13 Titles will be created...
Compiling VTS#1 (CORN)...
Muxing VTS 011.VOB
Internal Muxer Error

Build cancelled
Formatting finished.
Building was not successful. See log.

Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Nov 24, 2005 12:39 AM

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Houghts

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Nov 24, 2005 3:31 PM in response to logisticated

Hi There
The old Internal Muxing Error is pretty general, but the problem lies in your track. If you just do a Build in DVDSP does it still cancel at the same point? If not you can burn the VIDEO_TS folder to disc in Toast.
Sometimes a corrupted chapter marker can cause this problem also. Make a copy of your project, delete all the chapter markers except the first one and try a build and format to see if the build still cancels, if so I have another question. Did you create your mpegs in Compressor, or did you take your QT movie directly into DVDSP and let it do the encoding? If the latter, delete the mpegs and let DVDSP encode them again, or better still, create the mpegs in Compressor or another encoder and replace them - then try the build again.
It can be a bit of trial and error so stick with it.
Cheers
B

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Nov 24, 2005 5:19 PM in response to logisticated

The internal muxing error owned me for about 4 straight days a few months ago. I had about 100 assets, and I basically had to narrow it down to find the corrupt one. Start building tracks with the most likely corrupted assets, and work from there. I've also found that when I find the problem assset, there's usually one or two more near it. By near, I mean assets that were compressed in the same batch. You'll find it, (it's a simple enough process), but man, so annoying and tedious. Good luck.

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Nov 26, 2005 11:13 AM in response to Houghts

Hello,
Thanks for your prompt replys...

i'm working with .m2v files--i converted out of fcp4.5 then used compressor to create ac3 files for the audio as it was taking up too much space. I created the m2v files before I bought dvdsp, so I didn't have compressor. and to answer your question, I am clicking "build and format" and sending it to my hard drive as an .img file with thoughts of burning it via toast. DVDSP recognizes my external DL burner, but the ****** DL dvds are so expensive that I thought I would make sure it could build it before I started throwing my money away. The only chapter markers are the six that I created in DVDSP. As far as QT files, I've never done that...if you just brings those straight in, won't it skew your project size so it will be difficult to know how much you can put on the DVD? Or when you build can you determine the bit rate?
I'm thinking that my best bet is to delete this track and see if it will build my second track/menu. if not, then all of my compression is screwed up. That'd be too bad since it took me days to compress!
so another question then, is the best way to prepare files for dvdsp to export them as .mov files out of fcp then compress them into mpg2's in compressor with ac3 audio files?
thanks so much for all of your advice guys!
logisticated

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Houghts

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Nov 27, 2005 3:03 PM in response to logisticated

Howdy
Just to jump back a few steps - you can take a self-containd QT file into DVDSP, but then DVDSP encodes it into the mpeg for you. This is not desireable for several reasons, 1) you have less control over the encoding process, and 2) DVDSP doesn't encode audio to .ac3 only .aif which as you know gives you much bigger files and much higher bitrates.
It's fine to export your FCP timeline to Compressor or QT mepg exporter - one thing to note here is that everytime there's a cut in your timeline Compressor will insert a Compression Marker, which forces a GOP boundary on the cut to help smooth over scene changes. If you're creating a long project or a multi angle project this can cause problems. Personally, I'ver had a few problems exporting to Compressor out of my FCP timeline since the QT 7.0.3 update so always make a QT movie which I take into Compressor to encode.
You're doing all the right things though, its just going to be a bit of trial and error. Delete the track, try re-encoding using a different process or different settings and give it another go. Hopefully future versions of DVDSP will be able to give more specific error identification, or at least a guide to what the error codes mean.
Good luck
Cheers
B

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Dec 2, 2005 10:19 AM in response to logisticated

Many Thanks to you guys for your advice, what a great, spam free board this is. I've been editing with my mac for about 3 years but it's never occured to me to check out the mac website, except for more things to buy.

I ending up creating one long file with chapter markers in FCP and then exporting that to compressor. In the end everything burned fine, but i did have to create and .img file and burn that with disk utility as my external FW DVD burner gave me errors when burning straight from DVDSP.

The only problem I ran into (which, sifting through posts it looks like you've had it too, my aussie friend) is that when you go "export to compressor" in FCP and choose one of the defaults, in my case I chose, "fastest encoding, 150 min DVD" --it creates: 1 .aiff, 1 .ac3, and 1 .m2v file. but then when you bring that into DVDSP the audio is not there. The file is, but there's no sound. As far as I've read (which isn't that far) there's no fix, only a work around? I exported my audio from FCP to .aiff, then exported my timeline to compressor, but only chose a video compression, no audio, then converter my .aiff from earlier to an .ac3. drag-and-drop into my assests folder and put to track in my project.
I've been known to do things the hard way when there's any easier one. Is there? I'm running fcp 4.5, dvdsp 4, and compressor 2.
Regards,
Logisticated

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