Error message halts Make DVD process

johnmeyer wrote on 4/5/2003, 12:21 AM
I have DVDA 1.0a.

I am unable to complete my first project. I click on "Make DVD" and then click on the "Prepare DVD" button (i.e., I'm just trying to create the VIDEO_TS files, then burn the DVD later). DVDA renders and prepares all the files, but at the end of the process I get this error message:

"Warning: An error occurred while writing a file. Error 0x80047001 (message missing)."

When I look at the target directory (i.e., the VIDEO_TS directory), it is empty.

I have looked at this forum and several other users have reported similar problems, but no one has suggested a workaround.

I created a simple project just to see if the basic functionality is working, and the simple project finished with no error message.

I'm running Windows XP SP1. I have tons of free disk space (80GB on the drive I was rendering to, and more than 40GB on all the other drives).

The project that is causing the problem has one main menu with a 20 second video clip looping in the background, and one icon that links to a single submenu. That submenu has a solid background and six icons that link to about 60 minutes worth of video. The video was already rendered, so DVDA only had to render the audio (it was originally MPEG-1 audio).

This sure looks like a bug to me. Does anyone have any ideas of how to work around it?

Thanks!

Comments

PeterWright wrote on 4/5/2003, 5:32 AM
I was one who reported the same error. I'm still not sure exactly what cured it, but it seemed to be related to the amount of space that DVDA reported was available (about the third page of "Prepare DVD") in the folder I'd chosen to render into. If the reported space was zero, I experienced exactly the same error message as you.

In my case, I changed the target folder to one on the root directory of the same drive, and suddenly DVDA recognised that there were 21 Gb available, and everything went fine after that.

Hope that's some help

Peter
johnmeyer wrote on 4/6/2003, 5:11 PM
Well, I found the problem. I don't know whether this is a DVDA bug, or a problem with a specific file.

My project consists of three VOB files which I copied from a DVD that I previously created using Ulead's Moviefactory. To figure out what the problem was, I started DVDA, created a brand new project, and then dropped just one of the three VOB files onto a blank menu. I immediately clicked on "Make DVD" and then clicked on "Prepare DVD." I then repeated this process for each of the remaining VOB files, each time only putting one file into the project. Two of these tests completed successfully, but one gave the same error message as I had with the complete project. Thus, there is some incompatibility between DVDA and this one file.

I then imported this file into Vegas 4.0 and immediately rendered the audio into an AC3 file. I then imported this VOB file into DVDA and replaced its audio with the AC3 file created by Vegas. I them prepared the DVD files, but once again go the error message. I then put the VOB file back into Vegas and this time re-rendered to an MPEG-2 file using the DVD Architect template. I then used this file and the AC3 file in DVDA, and the process completed correctly.

I then went back to the original project and replaced each icon that was linked to the "bad" VOB file with the re-rendered MPEG-2 and AC3 file. This time the project completed successfully.
baltique wrote on 8/19/2003, 2:28 PM
Same probelm here and it's very frustrating:

Right at the end of the "Preparing" stage, when it's building a VO (2 of 2) it stops and an error message box pops up. words to the effect of...

"Error writing a file. Error 0x80047001. message missing."

I've got plenty of RAM and HD space. I've noticed a few other people are also encountering this issue. Any solutions found yet?
SonicClang wrote on 1/2/2005, 5:13 PM
Did anyone ever figure out a fix to this problem? Is there a simple patch/update that prevents this error? I'm having it right now with a specific video but not any others.

In one of the earlier posts someone asked what kind of burner the guy was using and that's irrelavent because it's not happening during the burning process. It's happening during the preparing process.