Necro bump.
I just registered here to thank the OP. Without his post I would have tossed my Yamaha in the dust bin. I had the exact same problem with a different Yamaha AVR, in my case it was a RX-V465.
I had tried 4 different DVD players with all possible audio settings, and have had nothing but errors. Ive seen invalid model, WRITE NG!, Play again, 00x0000, Ive seen the AVR turn itself off, or get stuck at some point.
I gave up and took it to my dealer. There we tried using the only CD player (not super audio cd) they still had, and it didnt work either.
Its only because I read here that these errors are not necessarily fatal, that I persisted. Otherwise Id had just thrown away a perfectly fine, and awesome sounding AVR.
But I ended up doing it through my PC. A regular mediaplayer didnt work, but I got it working under linux with this command:
aplay -Dhw:0,1 -f cd Vx65_TIdata1_ver2_08rL034_D_LR_R1_IFON_V3.2.wav
hw:0,1 is the SPDIF of my audio card, it may be different on a different PC. Vx65... is just the filename of the firmware for my AVR.
Using this it worked from the first attempt. The trick is the -f cd. This applies these settings:
16 bit little endian, 44100, stereo [-f S16_LE -c2 -r44100]
Default seems to be big endian. Whatever it may mean, this works.
YAY.
Just posting here in case someone else still has the same problem. This page is one of the first hits on Google searching for the error messages, so there you are.
Cheers!