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9jds - Sep 8, 2005 - 6:57 pm

When attemping to burn a dvd i am consistently getting an error code of:

"could not record disc because of a mac os error. result code = -2126."

any idea what this means & how i can resolve this issue?

thanks in advance for your assistance!

btw:

machine name: imac g5
machine model: powermac8,2
cpu type: powerpc g5 (3.1)
number of cpus: 1
cpu speed: 2 ghz
l2 cache (per cpu): 512 kb
memory: 1 gb
bus speed: 667 mhz
boot rom version: 5.2.5f1

pioneer dvd-rw dvr-k04l:

firmware revision: d441
interconnect: atapi
burn support: yes (apple shipped/supported)
cache: 2000 kb
reads dvd: yes
cd-write: -r, -rw
dvd-write: -r, -rw, +r, +rw, +r dl
burn underrun protection cd: yes
burn underrun protection dvd: yes
write strategies: cd-tao, cd-sao, cd-raw, dvd-dao
media: no

philippe99 - Sep 9, 2005 - 2:31 pm

Joseph, welcome to macosx.com
The error is notAllowedToSaveMovieErr = -2126.

What kind of video do you try to burned ?
How do you burn it ?
Does the file plays fine in QT ?

Regards
Philippe

9jds - Sep 9, 2005 - 8:46 pm

the movie file is an .avi

i tried burning it with the Roxio Toast software.

the file does not play in QT. i've been using VLC Media Player to view it.

thanks again for your help!
Joseph

philippe99 - Sep 10, 2005 - 3:27 am

So, this file has been coded with a codec that QT cannot find.
Good idea to use VLC: this freeware supports more codecs than Apple.
Happy you find a workaround and thank you for using macosx.com, Joseph
Regards
Philippe

9jds - Sep 10, 2005 - 7:04 am

yes - i can watch the movie on my mac using VLC, but i was trying to burn the video onto a dvd. that's when i got the error code.

can you only burn videos you can watch in QT?

philippe99 - Sep 10, 2005 - 9:24 am

No, but as you burn the movie with Toast.... so for playing it elsewhere and not as data for archiving... so by selecting the Video Tab in Toast (am I right ?)... Toast has to reencode it.
And for this, Toast rely on QT tools

The best tool for encoding/reencoding is ffmegX
http://homepage.mac.com/major4/download.html

The new Toast 7 as built-in divx -xvid .. codecs, and will certainly offer more possibilities as far as movies are concerned

Quite sure that you avi is a divx/xvid coded film
DivxDoctor
http://www.3ivx.com/divxdoctor/
can help ypou to decode avi file to QT mov file
You can also install codec for QT
http://www.3ivx.com/download/macos.html
but I do not like this: plug-ins in QT are always source of instability
Philippe