Toast question

i've been trying to burn four movies that i have on my HD. all the movies were .mpg so placing them into to Toast was no problem.....encoded them....fine, but when writing the movies to the DVD+R, it stopped with about 30 seconds to go before finishing. so i figured to just let Toast run and "work out the kinks" itself....unfortunately, it has been doing so for the past TWO DAYS ....any suggestions?

I am not sure what the answer is here. I have not used DVD+Rs, so I don't know. Have you used a DVD-R and get the same problem?

have you tried it again. Toast did that to me once and its not done it since (touch wood!)

this is like the second time this has happened to me. i haven't used DVD-R before, but i've had like 95% success (with the exception of this) with DVD+R. i'm still trying to figure out what is best to use as far as .mpg or .mov. when making DVDs, .mpg seem to be the best, but making VCD, .mov seems to be the best, so, i don't know. i don't have iDVD5 (that seems to be the "magic tool" for DVD creation for macs). but i've aborted the project, so it's back to the drawing boards for me......any feedback is greatly appreciated. thanx.

I don't think that the problem is the DVD+R...looks more like an encoding problem.
Do you use the latest Toast version (6.1, I think)?

Toast 6.1 is the latest version as far as I know of. I am still running 6.0.9, forgot why I did not move up to 6.1. I know something was changed, but not sure what.

i'm still using toast 6.0....would u think its advisable to update to the latest version? i've heard various things about 6.1 also (can't put my finger on any of them at the moment), but i think that was my reason, too, for staying at 6.0.

Try creating a Disk Image before burning

munkism said:

i've been trying to burn four movies that i have on my HD. all the movies were .mpg so placing them into to Toast was no problem.....encoded them....fine, but when writing the movies to the DVD+R, it stopped with about 30 seconds to go before finishing. so i figured to just let Toast run and "work out the kinks" itself....unfortunately, it has been doing so for the past TWO DAYS ....any suggestions?

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I used Toast last night to burn a DVD I'd ripped and wasted a couple of DVDs before I decided to create a Disk Image first (then burn the image later).

However, when I did this (using Disk Utility), that too failed, so Toast wasn't the problem. The problem was one of the VOB files on my hard-drive - don't know what's wrong with it but that's another issue.

You can also create a Disk Image in Toast (at least in V6.1).

You see, if you create a Disk Image, then you're nine-tenths of the way there. You can then burn your disk image later (but make sure nothing else is running at the same time - except the system things).

I suspect that these Macs (especially the slower ones) don't like doing too much at once, and if there's any conversion to do at the same time as burning DVDs, then you get a problem (at least I do with my 800MHz G4). But when you create a Disk image, there's no burning (it's all done on your hard-drive), then when it comes to burning later, there's nothing else for the computer to concentrate on except the burn.

Hope this helps,

Gary