PLEASE HELP with error message problem--DVD-A

Jay Gladwell wrote on 8/17/2003, 1:13 PM
A "search" has shown nothing. I've lost 11 hours trying to prepare a file for burning to DVD, and have nothing to show for it.

At the end of two renders--5.5 hours each--for Prepare, this stupid message came up, each time: "dvdarch.exe encountered a problem... and must close." Have burned 12 discs prior without incident.

The error mesage was: "Error 0x8004e02c message missing" I hope to heavens someone finds it, and soon!

Does anyone here have a solution for this? If so, it would be more appreciated than words can describe, I can assure you. I have to have this disc ready for the client by Monday morning.

Running Windows XP Pro with DVD-A 1.0c

Thanks!

Jay

Comments

farss wrote on 8/18/2003, 4:48 AM
I've never had this happen to me, at first I thought of running out of disk space but I seem to recall DVDA warning of it before it started to render.

Are you able to render from VV to mpeg2 for DVDA?

There's other ways to render as well, such as TMPGEnc but it really sounds likea machine problem so even they may crash.

What OS are you running etc, don't know if I can help much but before anyone else can either they are going to need to know more.
SonyEPM wrote on 8/18/2003, 9:41 AM
Can you prepare without burning? We need to know if this is a prepare issue or burning issue...
Jay Gladwell wrote on 8/18/2003, 3:30 PM
No. It happens at the end of the prepare (in prepare only), and it happens at the end of prepare in prepare & burn.
Jay Gladwell wrote on 8/19/2003, 11:38 AM
Okay, here it is...

It was my fault. My mistake. A gross oversight on my part. I was not using the DVD-A template mpeg file, I was using the plain MPEG2 setting.

However, the chapter makers are not being saved and/or tranferred over to DVD-A when saving (rendering) the file as the proper DVD-A NTSC file. I had to input them, again, by hand. How come?

And the MPEG file isn't a frame-for-frame duplication of the original, I noticed. Is this due to compression?
jetdv wrote on 8/19/2003, 12:02 PM
Did you check the "Save Markers" box on the Render As screen?
Jay Gladwell wrote on 8/19/2003, 12:19 PM
Yes, I did.
jetdv wrote on 8/19/2003, 1:07 PM
Did you move the file before adding it to DVDA?
Jay Gladwell wrote on 8/19/2003, 1:33 PM
If you mean did I move the file between rendering and using in DVD-A, no, I didn't.
jetdv wrote on 8/19/2003, 2:04 PM
The reason for this question is because the marker information is stored in a separate file from the MPG file (sfl or something like that). Therefore, if the MPG files was moved and the other wasn't, it wouldn't be found. However, that doesn't seem to be the case. Given that, I'm unsure but I know it HAS worked for me.
BillyBoy wrote on 8/19/2003, 3:03 PM
In my view, there's no particular reason to embed markers in Vegas since you can easily insert them in DVD-A. In fact I prefer it. One reason is its usually days, sometimes longer between the time I finish the project in Vegas and get around to buring a DVD. Usually, if you're like me and nitpick, you're pretty sick of looking at the project by the time you're done with it. So by waiting a few days or so, you get a fresh perspective of not only where you should have chapters, but how many.
Jay Gladwell wrote on 8/20/2003, 9:48 AM
Good point, BillyBoy, but, in this case, the chapters were predefined. It was a video of a series of different speakers (talking heads).

I'm curious as to why the markers didn't transfer over with the video as jetdv said.