Burning a DVD in Toast Titanium 10

[olliea95]

Hello, sorry for the post here, rather than on the Toast forum, but I really didn't want to create an account for them.

Anyway, I would like some information about burning a DVD in Toast Titanium 10. My intended outcome is for me to have a DVD with a film on, in VIDEO_TS format, from the .avi file I have on my Mac.

I know how to burn a DVD in Toast, but first it needs to encode it, which seems to take forever, so I usually give up. Also, before I use all that time, I would like to know if it just burns a data disc, with just the avi on it, or if it converts it to a VIDEO_TS folder.

Any guidance on how to accomplish this?

Many thanks,

[~Shard~]

If you use Toast to burn your AVI to a DVD, then yes, it will encode it and the output will be a VIDEO_TS folder and so forth - not AVI. In other words, the DVD will play in any conventional DVD player.

From my experience I have found that Toast sometimes encodes AVIs well, other times not. For encoding you may want to look at what QT Pro or even better, ffmpegX (http://www.ffmpegx.com/) have to offer as they will do a potentially better, and if nothing else more consistent job at encoding.

As for the slow speeds, I'm afraid to say it's probably due to your older machine - crunching video like that on a 400 MHz machine with only 512 MB of RAM will take a looong time. :(

[olliea95]

Great, thanks for the reply.

As for the encoding, (I'm sorry for the stupid place to ask this question) but is there a good tool for Windows XP, as I have a much faster Windows machine.

Yet, I probably rather wait ages, than use Windows again...

Thanks,

[~Shard~]

Great, thanks for the reply.

As for the encoding, (I'm sorry for the stupid place to ask this question) but is there a good tool for Windows XP, as I have a much faster Windows machine.

Yet, I probably rather wait ages, than use Windows again...

No problem, glad to help. As for a similar tool on XP, I don't use Windows so am unfamiliar with any tools myself, however let me google that for you (http://tinyurl.com/aru6ya) and see if anything there helps. (Just having some fun with that one...) ;) You could also look into seeing if the main Windows burning programs have encoding functionality built in as well, such as Nero or Toast's XP counterpart, Easy Media Creator. :cool:

[olliea95]

No problem, glad to help. As for a similar tool on XP, I don't use Windows so am unfamiliar with any tools myself, however let me google that for you (http://tinyurl.com/aru6ya) and see if anything there helps. (Just having some fun with that one...) ;) You could also look into seeing if the main Windows burning programs have encoding functionality built in as well, such as Nero or Toast's XP counterpart, Easy Media Creator. :cool:

Thanks for the let me google that :P
Been a great help, I think I will just wait for it to encode on my Mac, seeing as I calculated it will only take 10 HOURS!!!...

Thanks :)

[~Shard~]

Thanks for the let me google that :P
Been a great help, I think I will just wait for it to encode on my Mac, seeing as I calculated it will only take 10 HOURS!!!...

Thanks :)

Thanks for having a sense of humor. ;) Sounds like the encoding job will be best left to run overnight - good luck! :cool:

[8CoreWhore]

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http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/convert_avi_to_dvd.cfm