An Error Occurred While Writing a File ...

johnmeyer wrote on 9/28/2003, 5:55 PM

I'm trying to create a DVD using MPEG files created in TMPGEnc. I keep getting this error:

"An Error Occurred While Writing a File. Invalid data was encountered when processing an MPEG file."

I get this after all the audio has been converted (TMPGEnc can't create AC3), and after the next pass (which is where I think DVDA is making the VOB files). In other words, this happens just prior to when the burn would normally start.

After I clear the error, when I use Windows Explorer to look at the directory where the files should be, the entire directory is gone!

Does anyone have any ideas?

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BillyBoy wrote on 9/30/2003, 12:13 AM

Funny think happened to me today. First (almost) DVD crash. I always do it in two steps to AVOID what happended to you. Do the processing first,rendering to your hard drive then you'll have the files to try again if something happens. I always elect to do the actual burn as a seperate step.

Anyhow what happened...

I put a blank DVD in, DVD-A starts up gets to about 3%, I see the estimated time it says it will take to complete growing by leaps and bounds with no movement in the slider. A sure sign something isn't going right. So just as I'm about to say I bet I'll have a coaster, the DVD drawer pops open and there's some cryptic hardware did blah, blah, blah message on screen. I mumble under my breath, something I won't repeat, and just for the heck of it push the drawer back in with apparently a damaged DVD and it starts up again and darn if it doesn't produce a perfect DVD anyhow. How, I don't know, but it did. How that's for weird.

Only thing I can guess is even though the screen said it was 3% into the burn it apparently wasn't really otherwise I'd have a coaster.

johnmeyer wrote on 9/30/2003, 12:27 PM

Problem turned out to be one slightly corrupted file. The other thirty files were fine. I put the corrupted file into Vegas and had it re-encode (MPEG-2 to MPEG-2) and it now works.

TorS wrote on 10/3/2003, 5:19 AM

One thing I've learnt from retrying to burn a RW (another thread) is that even 6% into the burn process (70%+ into the "burning lead-in") nothing is actually burned to the DVD.
Tor

pconti wrote on 10/4/2003, 9:53 PM

Someone opened another thread on this same issue and I posted there as well but I just started having this error too. I have re-rendered the audio and video and keep getting the same error. And, it deletes the directory where it was all going to be housed. I suspect it's a Microsoft issue and has something to do with one of their recent patches, but that's just a guess. The reason I think that is because I have made no changes to my system, hardware or otherwise except for that and virus definitions. This problem is brand new. Never had it before.

Paul Conti

pconti wrote on 10/6/2003, 10:28 PM

I played with this for about two hours tonight. This error is indeed caused by some perceived error by DVDA and an mpeg file. In my case I rendered the entire project as an AVI, because it wasn't long. Then I made the mpeg stream from the new AVI file and it built the DVD correctly.