iDVD 3 help?

Question

Whenever I try to burn a dvd on idvd I get the following message:

"Errors were found during the burning process.
The recording device reported the media error:
Power calibration area error. (0 x 73, 0 x 03.)"

Do you know what this means, or what I can do to get it to work?

thanks

Answer 1

no, but I can point you in the right direction - The Apple Forums. I've learned so much from all the knowledgeable people there. I've had pretty much every question answered there.

Here are some posts on this topic:

Basically a power calibration is the drive writes to the blank and then tries to read it back and adjusts the laser power accordingly to get a proper burn. So there are a number of reasons you might get this problem.

One is the media itself. A bad disc or poor quality media might give you this error.

Next, you may have a dirty laser and running on of those cleaning CDs (they have little brushes on them to dust off the laser) might do the trick.

Third, could be a laser on the drive is giving up the ghost. Hopefully it is not the last one.

Well, try the old tried and true fix for a bunch....

Quit iDVD. Locate a file named com.apple.iDVD.plist and get rid of it. iDVD will create a new one the next time it runs. Empty the trash and restart if needed.

-->/Users/YourName**/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iDVD.plist



try the link below and search in that forum