01-06-2005, 08:12 AM

I need to know how to burn an .avi file onto a DVD with Toast. How do I do that?

I've been using ffmpegx and following the guide at videohelp.com but I'm not having much luck. The guide says that I'll end up with two files, one audio and one video, but I only get one mpg file and when I burn it it isn't recognized at all by my did player. Any tips? All help is greatly appreciated obviously.

01-06-2005, 08:39 AM

use divx doctor 2 to convert to a .mov, then use ffmpegx or quicktime pro to convert to an mpeg, then burn in the video tab of toast as a dvd. alternately, in ffmpegx, you can click the button to create as a video_ts and audio_ts folders and burn that as a data cd(udf) in toast.

01-06-2005, 08:42 AM

in the tools tab is where I mention above, its called "author as video_ts and audio_ts or something like that. and welcome to mac-forums.
BTW:if youre on a mac, you shoulda been getting help here to begin with IMHO.

01-06-2005, 08:57 AM

hmm dvix doc 2 doesn't seem to convert my avi can't i just export the avi to a .mov?

01-06-2005, 09:13 AM

no, divx dr. 'repairs' and realigns avi's craptastic built in flaws, avi is simply a wrapper
for other formats so idiotic divx player to play things like mpeg and .mov.
avi is inherently bad, misaligned audio and video is a main flaw.

01-06-2005, 10:42 AM

Thanks MacMan. I actually posted here because I had seen some of your posts, and was hoping you could be helpful to me as well. So take that as a compliment if you will. Anyways, too late to try it out now, but I will tomorrow, and I'll post again if I have any futher questions. Thanks again

01-06-2005, 01:00 PM

Originally Posted by gabe90

Thanks MacMan. I actually posted here because I had seen some of your posts, and was hoping you could be helpful to me as well. So take that as a compliment if you will. Anyways, too late to try it out now, but I will tomorrow, and I'll post again if I have any futher questions. Thanks again

thanks, I will take it as a compliment.

01-09-2005, 06:22 AM

When I author it as a DVD, do I still need to change the quick presets, or can I leave them as is? If so, what setting do I set them to?

Thanks again.

01-09-2005, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by gabe90

When I author it as a DVD, do I still need to change the quick presets, or can I leave them as is? If so, what setting do I set them to?

Thanks again.

you dont need to change quick presets if you set your desired settings in the video and audio tab,which most of the time dont need much changing except what format to convert to. as far as the 'author as video_ts, its under the tools tab, view the screenshot, its where the arrow is on my screen.

01-10-2005, 09:18 PM

Sorry to continue being such a noob, but I'm still having dificulty.

I've just had the most success I've had so far, but something is strange. I ran an avi file throught ffmpegx and selected author it as a video_ts optiion under tools. In the video tab I also changed the selected format to mpeg2 [.mpg](ffmpegx). By default this option was set to mpeg4[.avi](mencoder). I don't know if this is what format I want it to end uo in or what format I have.

Anyways, I got two different things when if was over. I got a document of 1.3GB and I got a file that has audio_ts and video_ts files in it. Sounds good, but the audio file is empty, and the video file has a file in it that is in .vob format.

Last thing, the progress report on ffmpegx had about 1,000 lines of "make sure file header is set to 18 bytes" or something like that.

Anyways, that's as much detail as I can provide. Again sorry to be so dependant, but I'm pretty confused.

01-10-2005, 10:21 PM

first, use divx doctor 2 to convert the avi to a .mov, then add the .mov to ffmpegx, and that quick preset thing is your destination format with a default set of options selected.

01-10-2005, 10:34 PM

Use compressor.. It gives you the best quality and everything,, And all ready to burn..

01-11-2005, 07:28 AM

Got it working. Thanks a lot MacMan and everyone that helped.

Sorry to keep this going, but I have one more question. If I have many files tha I want to put onto one DVD, how would I do that after converting them?

01-11-2005, 10:34 AM

Well toast can create dvd menus for multiple .mov files, so you can select the right film with your dvd remote. I'd imagine you'd need to do something like that...

01-11-2005, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by Aptmunich

Well toast can create dvd menus for multiple .mov files, so you can select the right film with your dvd remote. I'd imagine you'd need to do something like that...

yea, thats the best way, just make sure you put them in the order you want them in the menu.