Toast 8 - Very slow at encoding... Alternatives?

[JoshFink]

I'm new to the Mac so give me a little slack.

Currently I pull shows off my Tivo as mpg's. Once I have the MPG's I've been dropping them into Toast to create DVD's. The problem is that Toast is extraordinarily slow. For an hour mpg it took me over an hour to encode and write to DVD.

I'm using a 2.8ghz C2DE iMac with 4gb of Ram.

Can someone recommend an application that would encode faster?

Thanks

Josh

 

[Eidorian]

http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/

http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/

http://www.dvdflick.net/

 

[~Shard~]

I would recommend trying ffmpegx or VisualHub.

 

[Eidorian]

I would recommend trying ffmpegx or VisualHub.

Have you ever used it?

 

[JoshFink]

Thanks.. I'll look into these.

 

[~Shard~]

Have you ever used it?

Which one? Regardless, yes, I have tried both...

Thanks.. I'll look into these.

No problem at all, good luck!

 

[Cromulent]

It is slow because it needs to transcode your videos to MPEG-2 format.

Whatever you do it will take some time to complete. I find Toast 8 to do a reasonable job of quality versus performance.

Which ever application you choose will take some time because transcoding video is an extraordinarily CPU intensive task.

 

[JoshFink]

It is slow because it needs to transcode your videos to MPEG-2 format.

Whatever you do it will take some time to complete. I find Toast 8 to do a reasonable job of quality versus performance.

Which ever application you choose will take some time because transcoding video is an extraordinarily CPU intensive task.

Wow... That just seems extremely slow. Plus, i could have sworn it was already in mpg2 format when I pulled it off my tivo (not from Toast).

 

[JoshFink]

I would recommend trying ffmpegx or VisualHub.

Thanks... Visual Hub just converted it in 19 minutes.. A little faster..

Is there any way to do menu's and such in visual hub like it does in Toast?

 

[Eidorian]

Thanks... Visual Hub just converted it in 19 minutes.. A little faster..

Is there any way to do menu's and such in visual hub like it does in Toast?

Visual Hub doesn't do menus. You might want to make a copy of Visual Hub and run two instances of it.