DVD burning with Toast Titanium

kill4kam · kill4kam #1 (**permalink**)

07-26-2009, 09:26 PM

Hi everyone!

I need help, I am burning a DVD using a file that is avi. I was wondering why it takes so long for toast to "encode" it. it took 2 and a half hours to encode the avi file.

I thought this was ridiculous because i can make DVD's on my PC in the matter of 20 minutes (including burning).

If this is only a problem with toast, i am open to other software (free or not).

Thanks in advance!

Kevriano · Kevriano #2 (**permalink**)

07-28-2009, 06:31 AM

Are you burning an avi to be able to watch it on a normal player? If that's the case Toast needs to encode it and it takes ages. If you just want to burn the avi to a disc as a back up, or if you have a dvd player that reads avi's then burn it as data in Toast. It will take no time then.

bobtomay · bobtomay #3 (**permalink**)

07-28-2009, 07:40 AM

I have not done all that much encoding of video on my Mac.

Did some experimenting right after I first got it, and this Core2Duo at 2.33 vs. my P4 at 3.9 (or even at it's default 3.4), all the programs I tried on the Mac were ridiculously slow in comparison.

Wish some folks, like maybe TMPGEnc would start writing OS X apss.

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kill4kam #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jun 18, 2009 Posts: 20	07-26-2009, 09:26 PM Hi everyone! I need help, I am burning a DVD using a file that is avi. I was wondering why it takes so long for toast to "encode" it. it took 2 and a half hours to encode the avi file. I thought this was ridiculous because i can make DVD's on my PC in the matter of 20 minutes (including burning). If this is only a problem with toast, i am open to other software (free or not). Thanks in advance!
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