I'm in a jam here. Everytime I try to consolidate a timeline, I continually get a stream_size_exceeded classname DIDwrite error. To my knowledge, I started having those errors when I updated to MCA 2.6.3. I updated to MCA 2.6.6 in the hope that it would fix my problem but to no avail.

Is this a known bug with AVID?

Also, since my last update, I started having media access violation errors. Not a serious threat but still a pain in the...

Any suggestions anyone. I'm slowly but surely running out of patience here. I'm very close to the point where I'm thinking of downgrading to 2.6.2

MCA 2.6.6, HP XW8200, 3Gig ram, XP Pro

Media Access violations are basically OS permission issues. This usually occurs when an NTFS drive from another Windows system is moved to another with incorrect security settings, the Avid was rebuild (reinstall of the OS) and the security settings was not changed, etc.

For your consolidate problem, I would rebuild your database. If it finds a corupt media click on 'Continue'. Once it is done, delete all files in your OMFI MEdiaFiles folder with a '+' mark at the front of its filename. Rebuild the database again until there are no more corrupt media.

If this does not work, use the 'Divide and Conquer' technique (search the Avid Knowledgebase).

I am having the same problems. The ACCESS_VIO:ATIONS got worse and I found it was sequence related. The error message was the same on another machine with no media.

BE SURE to BackUp. I went back to 2.2.4 from 2.6.6 and nochange.

Have you determinded what action causes the access viloation error?

Changings jobs does it for me!

 

 

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Have you been able to find out anything more about this.  Did the timeline you are trying to consolidate start from a Meridien system?

A customer of mine is having the same problem.  So far, we have been able to trace it down to title media that came from Meridien systems.  Everything works for playback, but when we try to consolidate the error occurs.  If we rebuild title media on the MCSoft system, the issue goes away.

The timeline started from a Media Composer Meridien v12.0.5 and the MCSoft is v2.7

 

Hi

I encountered this error many times today while trying attempting to consolidate Bins of only master clips (2 audio channels, 1 video) to an external Western Digital Drive, on Avid Adrenaline Newscutter 2.14, HP4400, 3Gig, Win XP.  Each bin had at least one file taht wouldn't go through and then the error would say "Stream Size Exceeded Error:DIDWrite" or something very similar.  The console would offer no further details.  And I couldn't find any similar answers nor descriptions of the problem on the forum. But with some IT/Engineers' head scratching and mine, we eventually worked it out-- here:

Eventually 3 different big steps led to getting the consolidate working for all the files. 

1. Reformatted the external hard drive to NTFS.  See Western Digital's support site on how to do this. Make sure to back up the drive's contents first.

2. Changed the Security permissions on the external hard drive to allow all on all user names. 

3. Closed out of avid and deleted possibly corrupt Media Indexes (.mpr files) on the Avid Unity ISIS.  

A pain for sure, but now all the files are consolidating without problem.  

Hi,

always good to have people posting their solutions for problems. Have you tried (before reformating) to skip step 1? I would guess this would have done it, too.

Regards, g_f