MF4 dual layer burn crashes every time

ruggy1 · Post by **ruggy1** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:18 am

I am a long time user of MF and until now MF4 has performed flawlessly. My first try to do a DL burn with MF4, whether I try to burn to ISO or Sony DR700 DL DVD burner, it crashes every time with abnormal termination errors as soon as I hit the 'burn' button. I believe that I am up-to-date with patches. The compressed video size is only 6.9GB. Anyone give me a hint as to what is going on?
Thanks

ruggy1 · Post by **ruggy1** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:02 pm

To be more precise the error (crash) is "Runtime Error, This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way - Please contact Application Support"! After a lot of experimentation I have discovered it is either due to the bit level set too high (9000) with quality set to 100%, or manually specifying 2.4x as the burning speed rather than let it default to "Maximum". Either way I cannot experiment any further as I have work to do. I got to at least start transcoding by setting the bitrate to 7000 and the DVD speed to Maximum. I hold my fingers crossed to see what happens 4 hours from now!

ruggy1 · Post by **ruggy1** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 4:08 am

OK, it burned to DL disk (verbatim 2.4x) in one go after rendering for 4 hours. But the movie could only be played on my computer, both of my newish DVD players could not play the result - disk error - they both said! There are several problems here, does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks

ruggy1 · Post by **ruggy1** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:12 am

More experimentation took DL disks and write speed out of the picture. Sorry for the posts, I will post another one for the real issue.