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  1. I don't know if this maybe a similar problem to a earlier post. I just burned a couple of movies I have had sitting on a hard drive to try to make more room. Some of these were just AVI and others were AVI Divx and they all played in QT and VLC before I burned them in Toast 6.03. I tried one or two in my DVD player and they seem to have been fine.

    Just this afternoon while getting ready to put them away in the CD rack I decided I would check them again. The video plays fine no audio. Took them into the other room put them in another different DVD player not the same company and they would not play at all.

    Now I checked even further and it seems these were ones that I split with ffmpeg to make two that would fit on a VCD. Somehow I think I overlooked the fact that they were not just plain AVI.

    Any suggestions as to what I should try doing to have audio. I have some of the original files but not all of them. I trash most of the lessor important movies original files when I split them and burn them.

    The thing that bugs me is they all played on the computer either in QT or VLC with the audio. And as couple of them played on my DVD player here in my office.
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    Boy, I never get tired of this one.....


    Ok, PLEASE TRY TO REMEMBER THIS:

    1.Toast 6 only performs well with files that are in the "Proper QT" spec.
    2. Avi's, although they play fine in QT or VLC, are not "proper QT" spec
    files, and often are only being decoded into something that
    QT can Play, through use of a third party codec.
    http://boards.support.roxio.com/roxio/board/message?board.id=0000020&message.id=1336
    http://boards.support.roxio.com/roxio/board/message?board.id=0000020&message.id=1121
    (and countless others...)

    This is why if you.....









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    3. Try and decode the files through Toast 6 into VCD or SVCD or DVD,
    Toast will most assuredly have problems with (A.) the Audio, (B.)
    the Video, or (C.) both, because it doesn't utilize the QT codecs to
    convert the files into usable files ( Codecs are mostly for PLAYING BACK,
    not for Converting). It uses its own internal engine,
    which is based upon the STANDARD QUICKTIME engine.

    Therefore you must always.....






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    4. Convert/Transmute/Transform/ Perform Post Trauma Major Surgery
    on these files and get them into the "proper QT spec".

    To do this:

    Easiest:
    Run your AVI's through Divx Doctor II, to convert to in spec QT movie files.

    or if DDII has problems with these files, then you must:

    Harder:

    Demux the files by splitting the audio and video, and in most cases,
    recapture the audio into an AIFF format, then re-add scaled the video to
    the in spec audio, and create a proper QT movie file, which plays nice
    with Toast 6.

    Now I cannot vouch for your DVD player in the office
    ( you didn't specify if it was standalone, or internal in a computer)
    But the fact that you have no audio on the standalones in other part
    of the house STRONGLY point to out of spec files in your burn.
    Bad Media would play wholly fine in a computer player, but would
    not give you anything ( video or audio) in a standalone.

    Also the fact you mixed and matched flavors of avis,
    not a good idea.

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  3. Thanks for the clarification of what I was thinking. That is that even though they play on the computer in QT and VLC it does not mean that Toast will burn them properly and I was beginning to think just that. I do have DivX doctor and will run them through.

    Now the only question I have left is there any way I can get my video and audio off the CD to redo things, on those that I did not save the original files.

    Am I correct in this idea, can ffmpeg also convert the AVI DivX to another format that toast can burn?

    I only started working with video back in December and still have a lot to learn. BTW I do have 2 separate standalone DVD players.
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    not really sure about the newest ffmpegx,
    you might be best posting that question in the ffmpegx forum.
    The version I use, build .006g, can.

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  5. Yes it seems my copy of ffmpeg does do it. I took it and ran the avi divx thru to change it to ffmpeg took that and ran it through and got a bin/cue VCD file but it was just 1 minute too long. Now I have to see if I can cut that i minute off. Any ideas anyone?
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