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How to burn discs on my mini???

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I have a mac mini, an external optical drive and Roxio Toast 11.
I tried to burn a movie (downloaded from the internet on my mini). Everything went all right and even quicker than a pc but when I played the dvd, it was all recorded on fast forward mode, without sound or subtitles. What am I doing wrong?
The media player I use to watch movies on my mini is VLC because Quick time doesn't always play.
Please answer me in plain English because I am not a computer expert
Thank you in advance
 
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Hi and welcome to the forums.
All i can say is if this is a Pirated movie then chances are it was encoded wrong and there isnt much that could be done, and if it isnt then then you could have the settings in RT11 wrong.
Try a free burning program called http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html open it. Choose Video and then DVD-Video and click burn. Nothing else to do apart from sit back and wait. it will encode on the fly so might take a little longer than expected because of this.
I suggest this as i dont knowRoxio Toast.
My question to you is, why, if you are watching the DVD's on your Mini through VLC, why you arent just watching the video file straight through VLC ?? wouldnt that be easier ??

Anyways HTH

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Thank U for yr prompt reply.
Unfortunately Burn doesn't read avi files
Maybe I need to adjust the Roxio settings or find another burner

When I burned dvds on my pc with dvd converter it was ever so easy
Yr question: yes I watch movies on vlc on mini but sometimes I want to go on holidays and take dvds on my portable dvd player
 
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We don't discuss or help activities related to piracy..we're done here..
 
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