tell me if I'm on the right track here...

[terryj]

Have an mpeg file, says audio is using little endian audio codec.
Could not get Toast 6 to re-encode to make a VCD, it caused Toast
to Crash. Quicktime plays the file fine.

took the file into ffmpegx, split the streams.
Re-encoded the audio as mp3.
brought back into QT Pro, add scaled and made
a new movie file. Plays fine and complete in QT.

Export out of QT PRo to Toast Video CD,
Quicktime crashes. Drag and Drop the new QT movie file onto
Toast 6, toast begins working, it crashes unexpectedly.

Play the movie file in VLC.
VLC gives me the following errors:
could not read block 7260
could not read sector 7260

So now I'm thinking, go back to the split files,
search the video file ( m2v) and cut out what I believe
to be the offending parts, and re-encode the .mov file
and see if Toast6 will accept it.

thoughts?

[galactica]

does the mpeg even play properly in things like VLC or Mplayer?

[terryj]

yes, oh wise one, the original MPEG plays fine in VLC.
It does have "pops" in the audio, but not once does
VLC stop or give an error.

[galactica]

i would hardlly call pops and errors in VLC playing fine.

Perhaps this time instead of splitting and reencoding the audio you could open the muxed source in ffmpegx, choose passthough (ffmpeg) and endode a new audio stream right out of the muxed mpeg

worth a try at least

[terryj]

will do, I'll post back results tonight.
8)
By "pops" I meant the audio will play, but
occasionally it stops ( like a sharp dropout)
and then picks back up, kinda like bad audio editing
to begin with. The vid stream however, doesn't stutter
at these points, though.

[terryj]

Ok,
going back to ffmpegx,
recreated with passthrough audio
as MPEG-4 (avi) and went to play in QT Pro,
caused QT Pro to crash. Tried to play in VLC,
VLC played fine without a hitch.

Went back to ffmpegx, de-muxed the mpeg
back to seperate streams.
Opened the video in QT PRo, played it,
all was well.

Went back to the original MPEG file, and used Audio HiJack Pro
to re-create the audio as a 44.1 KHZ stereo AIFF file.
Opened the resulting audio in QT PRo, played it, great audio.

Selected my video, copy, selected audio, add scaled the video to the audio. Saved as self contained QT movie.
played back file, all was in synch, no "pops" as before. weird.
Exported out of QT PRo as Toast Ready Video CD MPEG-1.
Burned in Toast6 using VCD Builder for build.
Played on settop and also on G4 via VLC.
Disc is ok.

At this point I'm thinking the audio was hosed and was the problem all along.