Problem with ffmpeg coded avis and toast 7

[paulek666]

hi,

i have some avi-files. i would like to get 4 of them on one dvd. this can easily be done in toast 7.x but takes ages and the quality is a mess.
i tried to do this by coding through ffmpeg with the "DVD ffmpeg" setting.
works fast and i get good quality.

the big problem is now that when i drag the mpg-files (all at once or one at a time) into toast 7.02 (and 7.01) into the "video" window i get a "my playlist" (audio) entry for each mpg instead of the video.
when doing this with the original avi files the video is recognized as such and also displayed correctly.

toast seems not to recognized these mpgs from ffmpeg as video-files but as some playlist-files.

i tried anything now, deleting all preferences and plists for toast, reneming the mpg-files etc. but nothing helps.

does anybody know what to do?

any help would be appreciated

thnx

paul

[Case]

Try checking Decode with QT. This changes the way of encoding and the file structure, I guess. And in my situation, the output files have better Toast acceptance.
Another alternative is to let ffmpegX author as DVD, then feed the DVD folder to Toast. Toast will take the one title as input.

[paulek666]

thanks a lot i'll try!

but when i do this:

"Another alternative is to let ffmpegX author as DVD, then feed the DVD folder to Toast. Toast will take the one title as input."

how can i get zhen multiple avis on one dvd?

[Case]

When using the DVD ffmpeg preset, the checkbox Author as DVD is set by default. This should result in a ffmpegX authoring the generated clip_01.ff.mpg file into a clip_01.ff.mpg.DVD folder with a VIDEO_TS folder with VOB file(s).
Say you do that for 4 clips, then you can drop each DVD folder on Toast's window with the Video tab active. Toast will say it won't accept some of the files in these folders, but it will take the important ones: the VOBs, each as a separate DVD title.
If you let Toast generate a menu, then each clip/title is separately selectable.
Save as Disc Image, mount it, test in Apple DVD Player.

[paulek666]

thanks alot again!
i will have to try this!

hope it works - as i don't trust toast very much.
do you maybe know any similar app?

[Case]

i don't trust toast very much.

The folks at ffmpeg and Roxio seem to differ on what a proper MPEG file should look like, but I think Toast is a fine app.

[amavida]

i don't trust toast very much.

The folks at ffmpeg and Roxio seem to differ on what a proper MPEG file should look like, but I think Toast is a fine app.

Dragon Burn is a lot cheaper & does a great job.

[terryj]

i don't trust toast very much.

The folks at ffmpeg and Roxio seem to differ on what a proper MPEG file should look like, but I think Toast is a fine app.

Dragon Burn is a lot cheaper & does a great job.

But does Dragon Burn handle:

converting DIVX files to DVD?
allow you to burn Divx DVD Discs?
Handle muxing of mixed Content ( NTSC 29 and NTSC 24fps)?
allow you to extract content from VOB Sets/DAT sets?
and
have a built in re-quantamizer for handling the latest output
from MTR that has been ArCCoss'd, Ripguarded, and Puppetlock'd?

I may be biased, but last I looked at Dragon Burn ( v2) it
was no more than a glorified version of Apple's own Burn Disc feature.

Toast may cost more, but it's amazing what it can handle.
And if you having quality problems, you should read up more
on COMPRESSION and FILE CODECS to understand how to get great
DVDs made, not blame the software....

[amavida]

i don't trust toast very much.

The folks at ffmpeg and Roxio seem to differ on what a proper MPEG file should look like, but I think Toast is a fine app.

Dragon Burn is a lot cheaper & does a great job.

But does Dragon Burn handle:

converting DIVX files to DVD?
allow you to burn Divx DVD Discs?
Handle muxing of mixed Content ( NTSC 29 and NTSC 24fps)?
allow you to extract content from VOB Sets/DAT sets?
and
have a built in re-quantamizer for handling the latest output
from MTR that has been ArCCoss'd, Ripguarded, and Puppetlock'd?

I may be biased, but last I looked at Dragon Burn ( v2) it
was no more than a glorified version of Apple's own Burn Disc feature.

Toast may cost more, but it's amazing what it can handle.
And if you having quality problems, you should read up more
on COMPRESSION and FILE CODECS to understand how to get great
DVDs made, not blame the software....

It's true that dragon Burn is intended to be a Burning program not a transcode et al application.