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Uncompressed DVD burning in Toast.

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Sweenona

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So I got Toast Titanium 8.03 to burn backup copies of my DVDs...legally of course. I also bought a spiral of Dual Layer 8.5 GB DVDs so that I wouldn't have to compress my video to fit it onto a 4.7 GB disc. When I burn, I burn the VIDEO_TS folder (ripped from MacTheRipper) and it works just fine when I have "Fit-to-DVD video compression" selected. When I deselect it though, the DVD doesn't play in my XBox 360.

I guess my question is, if I have an 8.5 GB disk, and the VIDEO_TS folder is only 7 odd GB, why does the DVD video compression need to be on? Here's an example: I'm burning a 2 hour movie (with no extras) onto this Dual Layer 8.5 GB disk (the VIDEO_TS file is 6.82 GB). And with the compression on, it says it will be a 34% reduction. With the compression off, it doesn't play in my DVD player.

Does anyone know how I can work around this? I just want the highest quality copy possible.
 
If it needs compressing it looks like you're burning to a single layer DVD. 34% compression would be about 4.5 GB. Have you selected the DVD DL burn option for dual layer disks.

Richard
 
rjmarklew said:
If it needs compressing it looks like you're burning to a single layer DVD. 34% compression would be about 4.5 GB. Have you selected the DVD DL burn option for dual layer disks.

Richard
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Thanks for responding. I selected the DVD DL (next to the big red burn button) and I have a DL DVD in the drive. Is there some other place where I have to tell it that it's a DL DVD?

Like I said above, I tried burning one with the "Fit-to-DVD video compression" option off and it didn't work in my Xbox 360...is that just a fluke? Should it normally work correctly with that deselected?
 
Sweenona said:
Thanks for responding. I selected the DVD DL (next to the big red burn button) and I have a DL DVD in the drive. Is there some other place where I have to tell it that it's a DL DVD?

Like I said above, I tried burning one with the "Fit-to-DVD video compression" option off and it didn't work in my Xbox 360...is that just a fluke? Should it normally work correctly with that deselected?
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If it's like Popcorn (another Roxio product) it'll only compress if needed even if you have compression turned on. Look at the VIDEO_TS folder on the burned disk, how big is it?
 
swiftaw said:
If it's like Popcorn (another Roxio product) it'll only compress if needed even if you have compression turned on. Look at the VIDEO_TS folder on the burned disk, how big is it?
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Wow, I didn't even think to check the size of the VIDEO_TS folder on the burned disk. It IS the same size as the original folder on the computer. Thanks for your help. So when I click on "Copy Options" and it says 50% compression, quality medium, it's just talking about if you were burning to a single layer DVD?
 
Sweenona said:
Wow, I didn't even think to check the size of the VIDEO_TS folder on the burned disk. It IS the same size as the original folder on the computer. Thanks for your help. So when I click on "Copy Options" and it says 50% compression, quality medium, it's just talking about if you were burning to a single layer DVD?
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Exactly
 
Sweenona said:
Awesome! Thanks a lot for your help.
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I still don't get why it doesn't work with Compression turned off even when you have enough space on the DVD DL for the Video_TS file. Does that make sense?

I am burning a disc at the moment and, like you, I turned off compression because even though I had a DL disc in, Toast still said 34% compression, which I didn't like.

I guess I'll see if it plays...but now it looks like even if it says 34% compression, it won't actually compress anything as long as there is enough space on the DL DVD...
 
martinmartin said:
I still don't get why it doesn't work with Compression turned off even when you have enough space on the DVD DL for the Video_TS file. Does that make sense?

I am burning a disc at the moment and, like you, I turned off compression because even though I had a DL disc in, Toast still said 34% compression, which I didn't like.

I guess I'll see if it plays...but now it looks like even if it says 34% compression, it won't actually compress anything as long as there is enough space on the DL DVD...
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Well I got an error when burning with compression turned off - as described above.

So this morning I tried again with compression turned on and got the same exact error (see attached).

I'm using Verbatim DVD+R DL, which I understand to be pretty decent quality...

I did a search and it looks like Macs are plagued with this error.

Anyone have any suggestions of should I just forget about trying to burn DL discs on my MBP?

Thanks
 

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