Trying to burn a DVD from iDVD, after about half the slideshow was "rendered" I got, "Multiplexer Error during mixing preparation" Any thoughts besides buying a new Super Drive? Thanks.
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)
See Bengt Wärleby's reply in this topic: Multiplexing Error.
Also follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
Thanks for the input OT, however, unfortunately, I got the same error msg as previously noted after about 1/2 an hour. That was well before the estimated time for the encoding. Under the error msg, the iDVD display of the project showed the burn icon spinning (that didn't happen when I initially hit File ➙ Save as Disk Image). I've never used "save as Disk Image" previously, just always it the burn icon in iDVD which used to work.
Do you have any movie files in the project that have been edited after they were added to the iDVD project? If so then start over with a new project as there's a but in iDVD that can't handle edited movie media files if they've been edited after being added to the project.
The iDVD project was built from an iTunes video slideshow from Photos and iTunes songs, no movie clips included. I burned a copy of the original video in iTunes to a blank DVD, but of course it wouldn't play on our Visio LCD TV, it also didn't play on a MacBook. I had hoped to get it into iTunes on the MacBook and then attempt to create an iDVD of it via that route. The earlier attempt to create the iDVD by going the Save as a Disk Image ran into the same problem (encoding error) that I ran into when I initially used the burn icon to start the process in iDVD. Do you see any value in getting a Laser Disk Cleaner CD? I doubt that could fix an encoding problem.
Thanks for sticking with me on this OT. I just got a working iDVD and played it on the TV successfully. I used 480 per your recommendation and it worked through the process. I was somewhat surprised that the iDVD displayed a rather small view, not the 4:3 size usually seen it assume that's a function of using 480 vs. over 1080. Will continue to experiment.
What format did you export the Photos slideshow video as? If it's anything higher than 540p that could be the cause of the problem. iDVD works best with 480 or 540.
Working this (480-540 for export) idea next 🙂
Trying to burn DVD from iDVD, got "Multiplexer Error during mixing preparation??
