I am burning some TV shows to DVD for the first time. For some strange reason when I burn the them and play them on my home DVD player, only the first 5 episodes (out of 13) play. When I select any of the 6 through 13 episodes my DVD player says PAL. I have Toast 7, and thought that it would convert my .avis over to NTSC if any of them were in PAL format. I dragged and dropped the episodes into Toast 7's Video tap, and selected DVD-Video. I also made sure that the Toast preferences were set to NTSC. The DVD works on my Mac, but not my home DVD player. Have I done something wrong? Is there something I am missing? What can I do?
hope this helps. From res1492 in this thread http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/2/230087 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 And please dont ask me any hard questions as i dont pretend to be a Encoding whizz...in fact i stumbled upon this by accident I hope this helps you out
Thanks! I'll give it a shot and tell you what happens. Oh, one question: could I compress the episodes so I could fit more than the normal amount on a DVD, or am I kinds stuck with the DVD limit? I'm hoping to use the least amount of DVDs as possible, without really hurting the image quality (I'm hoping for 2-3 disks a season).
Well, I followed the instructions, and my problem was solved, but also replaced with a new one. All the episodes I burnt play on my DVD player now, but there is no sound. At all. Now, the strangest part is when I pop my DVD into my PS2, the exact opposite happens. When I go into an episode, I get sound, but no picture (the image stays on the menu selection). This happens on every episode. It seems I have made one tiny step forward with the instructions above. Is there anything else I can do? Any suggestions?
