Some of the movies I have are in .avi format. Can toast burn .avi formats and it still work in your DVD Player? If so do you burn it under "DivX disc" or do you do DVD-Video. Also will .cue and .bin formats work?
ok.. here is the bin cue details.. this is in this thread: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/230087 you can thank AtrophyG4 for this one: Open toast and click copy and select Disk image in the side panel. Click Select... and find the BIN file and open it. Back in the Toast window, click Mount... (should be right next to Select...) You should have a Disk on your desktop titled similiar to your files. Open the disk and find a folder called MPEGAV and open it. Drag the .dat file out onto your desktop or HD and wait for it to copy. Change the extension from .dat to .mpg which should make it viewable mpeg in Mplayer or Quicktime. Go back into Toast and unmount your image (button used to Mount...) Click Video up top and select DVD Video in the advanced pane. Drop your newly aquired mpeg into the window, insert a DVD and click burn. Set your burn prefs in the drop window and click record. It should encode the mpeg and burn it as a DVD, but it will take some time. Set it to go before you go to bed and it should be about ready or done when you wake up. All of this seems to work on my system. The only thing I did't do is the burn process. When I did drop the MPG into the DVD Video window I noticed it only took up a fraction of the disk, whereas the .AVI files I have encoded through Toast have always taken up the whole disk for best quality. Try saving as a disk image and then mounting the image to make sure it plays in OS X's DVD player before you make a coaster. You may want to try investing in a cheap DVD player that does play (S)VCD disks and then you can just drag and drop your bin/cue combo and put them on a cdr. Also check your model number on http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers to see what your player is capable of. My player will play (S)VCD disks, but it has to be the cdrs with the real dark blue ink. I picked up a pack of 50 verbatims that look like vinyl records at Best Buy for $20.99 and they work great. Hope this helps. If you still have no success, check out www.vcdhelp.com in the Mac Forum and see some of those tutorials they have. You may find one using ffmpeg that works. I never had much luck myself but it seems to work for others. and for the avi to dvd.. try this one.. http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/2/230087 you can thank res1492 for this one: Ok i know this is a lot of encoding but this is how i get my Tv episodes (AVI) onto DVD First start by opening toast 7...under the "Video" tab choose "Video CD" Drop in the episodes..for some reason i find that if i try to encode more than 6 at a time they Fook up...so no mre than 6...it doesnt matter if the little coloured bar at the bottom goes into the red at this moment in time because your not going to burn the image to a CD..you just need the .Dat files that it encodes Now goto "File" And "Save as Disk Image"..Save it somewhere..After it has encoded, right click and "Mount it" Now open the Disk image and goto the "MPEGAV" Folder ...You should see your episodes there...they will be called "AVSEQ01.DAT" files So depending how many episodes you dropped in you'll have as many .DAT files OK now copy the .DAT files out onto your desktop and rename them to your TV show. So.... If you dropped in 3 lost eps AVSEQ01.DAT=Lost Eps 01.DAT AVSEQ02.DAT=Lost Eps 02.DAT AVSEQ03.DAT=Lost Eps 03.DAT And so on...... Now open up toast again and under "Video" tab choose "DVD-Video" and drop in the .DAT files...keep your eye on the little colouerd bar so you know when your DVD is full. Choose the menu style you want and Goto "File" and "Save As Disk Image" Once this has encoded you will be able to burn the image to a DVD and watch on your Player Guys i know that there must be easier ways of getting .avi files onto DVD but this has always worked for me and with my new GigaDesigns 2GHz processor upgrade for my G4 it doesnt take long at all About 20 mins to encode an episode to VCD then about 1 and a half hours to encode a full DVD
I have burned a few dvds with .avi files and they all played on my dvd player fine, except for some reason only my first dvd has sound. One them that I burned had an .mpg on it and it had sound, but not the .avi on the same dvd. What would I check to see why it won't have sound, and would just converting it to .dat files or whatever make it work (I didn't do it for the ones that worked). I don't know much about burning and stuff tho. I use Toast 7
