Toast Video CD encoding expired

[AntnyMD]

Has anyone experienced this with Toast Titanium? When I drag over a Quicktime movie, Toast says the Video CD encoding preview has expired. Admittedly, I got this software from an anonymous internet pirate, but I haven't heard anyone mention this little bit before.

[Jimp]

If you goto Roxio's site, you will find an update to correct the problem.

[AntnyMD]

I thought as much ... so I did. I downloaded an update, to 5.1.2, but that didnt solve the problem. I'll try the site again tonight to check for other updates, but in the interim, do you have a specific update in mind?

My Toast was originally installed as Toast 5 for OS 9, then patched to OS X, then updated to 5.1.2.

[Jimp]

I upgraded mine to 5.1.1 which addressed the expired vcd component then 5.1.2 which makes toast work with OSX.


How do you encode "mpg" movie clips (with sound) into VCD? all my attempts have failed due to the soundtrack not being converted over.

Do I need Quicktime 5 pro. I only have Quicktime player 5?

I only work in MAC OS 9.1

[AntnyMD]

I havent learned how to take, for example, MPEG-2 program streams from DVD and convert them to Quicktime easily, and keep the audio soundtrack. However, once you have a Quicktime movie with sound (for example, the movie trailers on Apple.com), you can just drag these items into a Toast Video CD project and Toast will re-encode to Video CD 1.1.

I put a 51 minute DVD clip onto a Video CD with sound, but this is the (annoying) process I had to go through. My goal was to stay within OS X:

1. Rip DVD. I did this awhile back on a PC laptop and sent the files into my Mac via FTP.
2. Use bbDEMUX to demultiplex the MPEG2 video and AC3 audio to different files.
3. Encode the MPEG2 video to Quicktime with MacMPEG2Decoder version 1.0b7r2. Other versions gave weird results.
4. Downmix the AC3 audio to stereo AIFF with mAC3dec.
5. Encode the Quicktime video made in Step 3 to MPEG1 with Movie2MPEG. This neat little piece of software allows you to control bitrate and make XVCD MPEG1 video (Toast does not; Toast's video encoder aims to make only standard VCDs).

6. Start up VirtualPC, open TMPGEnc and encode only your audio to an MP2 file (MPEG1 Layer 2).
7. Using TMPGEnc Tools, multiplex your MPEG1 video and MP2 audio into a Video CD stream.

8. At this point, the authoring step, you can either stay in VirtualPC and use VCDEasy/VCDImager to make a Toast VCD image (you can add entrypoints!), or you can exit VirtualPC and add your MPEG file to a Toast VideoCD project and burn. Note that Toast only makes VCD1.1 discs.

[AntnyMD]

Rechecked Roxio site ... Toast Titanium upodate posted in January 2002, the one I downloaded, had a bug that made the VCD encoder expire on January 31. The new download, called "revision 2" doesn't have this problem.

[Jimp]

This is where my problems start...

I have some video clips which have ben made on a friends pc, which playback just perfectly in "Quicktime player"

If I drag the file into Toast Titanium it says the files ars not suitable, and to make a VCD file with my MPEG encoder.

I played around with Quictime and found I can "export" in various formats, but none of them has the audio option enabled. What am I doing wrong?

Why in your "steps to create mpeg2 program steams" do you start using a PC program?

All I want to do is make a standard VCD not a SVCD.

[AntnyMD]

This is where my problems start...

I have some video clips which have ben made on a friends pc, which playback just perfectly in "Quicktime player"

I can't be totally sure, but if your friend is encoding MOV files on a PC, there may be PC-only codecs involved. I've never encoded to Quicktime on a PC, so I can't really speak to that particular issue.

If I drag the file into Toast Titanium it says the files ars not suitable, and to make a VCD file with my MPEG encoder.

Try exporting it using the DV-NTSC or DV-PAL codec. It will create a HUGE file, and it may allow you to keep your audio. Give it a try.

Oh I just thought of something. I've seen several times in the Quicktime help where they say if the audio and video are encoded into a single track in Quicktime, it pretty much makes the file no good for transcoding to VCD. I suspect thats your issue right there. I don't know if it can be undone.

Why in your "steps to create mpeg2 program steams" do you start using a PC program?

I start using a PC program because I still have not learned how to make Quicktime movies WITH sound using an MPEG2 video stream and an AIFF audio stream. I would really love some help on that.

All I want to do is make a standard VCD not a SVCD.

I don't want to make an SVCD, either. At least, not yet.