Problems with Toast 7 and iDVD 5.0.1 to burn .avi

[Manolo]

Hello fellows:

I have a problems with many .avi that I converted on ffmpegX, using the MPEG 4 [.AVI] encoder, with audio Passtrough to preserve AC3 and loading subtitles in spanish, after that I got an .avi file with Harcoded Subtitles as I wished.

But the problems starts here:
I tried several times to burn or make a disc image of 3 of this .avi on a DVD with Toast 7; using the create a DVD option on video tab. It starts encoding the first one and Toast quits by itself, says something like Toast has unexpectedly quit you want to reopen...

I tried to do the process on iDVD with just 2 .avi but after a while it quits and says something similar, iDVD has unexpectedly quit...

So I wonder if the problem is with the files tha I encoded, because the original files were able to be Toasted; or I have a system problem, or to burn a DVD with .avi I should use other encoder? Remeber that I want to burn the subtitles.

Anybody gets the picture os my problem? I may confuse you all with my explanation.

If a kind soul know how to help I would be very thankfull.

Cheers,

M.

PS: I had follow a topic about converting .avi to DVD so I think I have made my homework, but at some point it seems that I lost it.

[rumplestiltskin]

1. Try updating Toast to 7.0.1.

or

2. Drop the converted (w/embedded subtitles) file into iMovie. Then send that to iDVD.

[Frobozz]

I believe the issue is that your MPEG 4's have AC-3 audio. Certainly iDVD doesn't have any way of dealing with AC-3 sources. I may have read that Toast 7 also has problems with MPEG 4's that have AC-3. If that's the case it may be fixed when Toast's next update that hopefully will be out in early December.

[Manolo]

I have Toast 7.0.1 but if Frobozz is right I have nothing to do until the next update.

But I have a question: I could burn them before encode and embed the subtitles with ffmpegX, so What has changed?

Any ideas?

Thanks guys,

M.

[rumplestiltskin]

Just noticed that the latest version of VLC (0.8.4) has an "export wizard" which seems to work pretty well. I've used it to convert WMV files (which is pretty difficut usually). I do it in two parts: first for the video only and second for the audio only. I do the audio as "uncompressed, integer" in a WAV container. QT can open this. I do the video as mpeg-4 in an MP4 container. Then I open both in QT Player Pro, select all of the audio, copy, switch to the video, paste scaled, then "save as" a reference movie (so it's just a small file). Then I can open that file in any QT-aware app and have both video and audio present and sync'd.

Let us know if this helps.

[Manolo]

I will, but first I need to get VLC (0.8.4) i have 0.8.2.

Then I will follow your instructions and tell you the results.

Just one thing bothers me, Why Toast could burn the files before the ffmpegX encoding, that more than a real encode was a way to embed subtitles.

Thanks for your info.

M.