DVD ARCHITECT PRO 5b copy probs

akwaaba wrote on 11/9/2009, 1:03 AM
I have made adisc of a family wedding and when trying to make a second copy got the following message;

SFMMCX'-(17)
''-(1)
-'Optiarc DVD RW AD-7581S 4H03'-(0)
Module f:\source\sonic3\release\dvdarchitect\5.0\cddrvs\sfcd\sfmmcx.cpp Line 2144
An illegal request was received.
A specified address is out of range.

Status: 00020202
Command: 2a 00 00 00 08 a0 00 00 20 00
Sense: 05 21 00
Info: 00 00 00 00
Specific: 00 00 00
Extra: 00 00 00 00 00 00 d8 2d e0 83

Any ideas guys,
thanks Chris

Comments

Former user wrote on 11/9/2009, 5:06 AM
What software are you using to create the disk? Are you trying to copy the original disk or just make another copy from the software?

Dave T2
akwaaba wrote on 11/9/2009, 6:31 AM
Movie created in Vegas 9c.
Rendered as MP3 audio, and mpeg2 using DVD A template.

In DVD Architrect 5b select wedding template and import rendered files via explorer to make DVD.

1 disc is created perfectly, and tried to create second disc in response to the programme, and get the above error message

thanks
Chris
MPM wrote on 11/9/2009, 9:07 AM
Google "SFMMCX"

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Alternative = prepare to hard drive & use a regular burning app. If you just want to knock out more DVDs ASAP, use ImgBurn to create an ISO of the disc you got, then burn as many times as you wish.
TOG62 wrote on 11/9/2009, 9:36 AM
Just curious, but why create an ISO rather than burning direct from folder?

Mike
akwaaba wrote on 11/9/2009, 6:14 PM
Many thanks . I will use 'nero' to make copies.

The computer is a 4 mth old HP pavilion dv6 notebook with 4 Gb ram, 32 bit operating system.
All device drivers are up to date. I started the project using Vista home premium.....[will change soon to W 7]

I reflect did not have this problem with Vegas pro 9b and DVD Architect 5b

many thanks for your help

Chris
MPM wrote on 11/10/2009, 10:19 AM
>"Just curious, but why create an ISO rather than burning direct from folder?"

Save the trouble of recreating the DVD layout on hdd in DVDA since DVDA was giving problems -- had one DVD that worked, so creating an ISO in ImgBurn gives you an image that can be burned an infinite number of times. Copying a DVD disc in Windows Explorer is usually time consuming because most DVD drives have a speed limit imposed as DRM -- use Media Code Speed Edit to change that. Copying a DVD using Roxio/Nero apps creates the iso, burns the disc, & deletes the iso by default, so for multiple copies...
MPM wrote on 11/10/2009, 10:25 AM
>"I reflect did not have this problem with Vegas pro 9b and DVD Architect 5b"

Sony apps have a history of sometimes being flaky when it comes to burning. Way I figure it, I use DVDA instead of the minimal DVD app in Nero &/or Roxio, why should I use the minimal burning app in DVDA instead of something better that's dedicated to burning? ;-)
cbrillow wrote on 11/10/2009, 2:33 PM
"Sony apps have a history of sometimes being flaky when it comes to burning."

According to the relative handful of people who report problems, in contrast to untold numbers of users who burn from DVD-A without incident.

Count me among the latter -- starting with DVD-A 2 and continuing through DVDA-5. I've used these versions on 4 or 5 different machines, all of them without exceptional hardware, and have never had a failed burn or a disc that wouldn't play in any of several DVD players.

As always, YMMV...
MPM wrote on 11/11/2009, 9:52 AM
Totally FWIW...
from Google: "Results 1 - 10 of about 1,510,000 for dvd architect problems burning"
Terry Esslinger wrote on 11/12/2009, 3:52 PM
<<Rendered as MP3 audio, and mpeg2 using DVD A template.>>

I assume you meant AC3 not MP3?
akwaaba wrote on 11/14/2009, 2:47 AM
Thanks Terry will change the audio to AC3
cbrillow wrote on 11/14/2009, 6:12 PM
"Totally FWIW...

Some more FWIW:

At this point, 3 days after your post, there are only about 1,450,000 links in the results pile. By your rationale, that must mean that about 60,000 users have solved their problem in the last 3 days.

I'm also wondering if Sony has sold nearly 1.5 million copies of DVD-A. If not, how can there be that many people complaining about it?

Your search criteria is flawed, as it simply looks for occurrences of all the terms on a single page. Any page that contains DVD Architect burning and problems will generate a hit. Someone could have a blog post in which he raves about how much he loves DVDA and never has any problems burning DVDs, and it would return a positive hit for your search terms.

And here's another example, from the FIRST page of results: http://www.donstevenson.net/DVD_Architect.htm If you visit this page, you'll find that it's a tutorial on authoring DVDs with DVDA. The word "problems" is not even found on the page. It is found only in links POINTING TO THE PAGE. The word "problem" does appear on the page, in this context: "...you should not have a problem making a DVD that is viewable on a standalone DVD player..."

I'm not arguing that some users don't have trouble using this, or any other NLE or DVD authoring software. My guess is that it's like any other package. It works for the majority of users, who don't write in to say so, and it doesn't work for others, who either complain or ask for help.

There's a serious fallacy in quoting a Google search number and citing that as conclusive proof of anything. Try 'Bush Hitler' or "Obama sucks'... What do those millions of results prove?
MPM wrote on 11/17/2009, 12:20 PM
Apologies if I offended, or ever offend anyone. It's been enough years that I've lost anything remotely resembling/hinting at fanboi-hood. With anything PC related.

A brief recap => some people like to burn from DVDA, others do not.

Whenever this discussion comes 'round -- & it has, as regularly as the mother-in-law come the holidays -- there are some people who appear to take tremendous offense at the thought of not burning from inside DVDA. As long as both sides of the debate are voiced -- many folks are led here by Google -- I prefer to remain silent, or at most stick to the bare minimum amount of words. TO me this single issue is like discussing politics or religion -- I don't do either. That's background for any of these unfortunately recurring threads about burning,

Why do these threads pop up?

Usually someone experiences burning problems of one sort or another, often getting a cryptic error message, & asks for help.

What do these threads say?

Sometimes the user follows through sometimes lengthy troubleshooting. Other users normally make the observation that it's easier to burn elsewhere than worry about it -- they also normally point out advantages of doing so. Often some people take offense at that -- why I have no idea.
MPM wrote on 11/17/2009, 12:56 PM
@cbrillow
If & in case it helps you or anyone else understand Google a bit better.

>"...There's a serious fallacy in quoting a Google search number and citing that
>as conclusive proof of anything... What do those millions of results prove?"

Actually it's a recognized research technique, though not as refined as stats finding what topics interest people at any given time near instantaneously.

>"...3 days after your post, there are only about 1,450,000 links...By your rationale,
>that must mean that about 60,000 users have solved their problem in the last 3
>days."

Not necessarily... That number isn't an absolute number of sites dealing with any topic -- if it was, that reduced number would mean however many pages on however many sites had just vanished, and normally old pages stay up. This thread will survive long after the original poster's started it. All it means is that there's a bunch of people who were interested in the topic. Right now I also get: "Results 1 - 10 of about 3,560,000 for encore problems burning." & " Results 1 - 9 of about 18,300,000 for Nero problems burning." That doesn't mean Encore does better or worse than DVDA -- Nero gets far more that both DVDA & Encore put together, but burning is Nero's main job, so far more people use Nero to burn all sorts of discs combined... and far more people are interested in that topic.

At any rate I hope that some folks might find that useful, whether work related or just personal interest., whether for marketing or finding topics to brief yourself on for conversations with friends, clients, & holiday parties. There are sites with most Googled, &/or most Tweeted about etc... if I remember correctly Bing just signed a deal to feature Twitter topics. If/when you don't look up this sort of thing, consider if you have competition, they might. ;-)