[2009059]

I want to burn some .m4v files to a dvd in Roxio Toast Titanium to give to my friend but once it fills the RAM cache it starts to write Lead-in it pops up with a screen saying: Drive detected an error ERROR: Medium........ and some other crap.

And then I can't get my disc out for like half an hour because it is still spinning at full speed, or at least it sounds like it is. But the stupid thing is, it still says my disc is ready later and when I stick it in it doesnt recognize it! Also, I seem to have found that only certain files cause it to do this, but what a coincidence, those are the ones I want the most!
Someone help!!!!

[brokenjago]

Version of Mac OS X? What version of Toast?

Are you talking about the system in your sig?

Details!

[2009059]

10.4.2, version 6 i think, and ya the system in my sig.

[allblue]

I can't offer help here but I did have a very similar problem. Tech details: iMac G4800, 512mb ram; Toast 6. I wanted to free up some HD space (c 2.5 gig) by archiving a pile of old photos (jpg and tiff) and got the same 'Error...medium' crap message after 'Lead-in' had been written. I didn't get the spinning after that 2009059 reports, the disc ejected itself. The first time I tried was using a third party DVD + R, and I noticed that the Apple DVDs I bought at the time I bought the iMac were DVD - R, so I tried again with an Apple disc and the same thing happened (this was particularly galling as they cost £5 each!). I have burned plenty of CDs using the same set-up without any problem.