Converting an AVI file in Toast PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!

[thasco]

Every time i add any avi file to toast to convert it to a burnable file it quit. I mean as soon as i drop it in toast it quits
. WHY!!!!! Does anyone have an answer. Thanks in advance. Please help its killing me.

[hech54]

Obviously Toast doesn't like what is inside of that .AVI file. Not all .AVI files are the same.

[thasco]

It is doing it to all my avi files.

[hech54]

What type of AVI files does Toast accept?

[Case]

What type of AVI files does Toast accept?

Toast accepts any AVI file that QuickTime Player also accepts. That is, Toast hooks into QuickTime architecture for decoding AVIs.

As soon as i drop it in toast it quits.

A few crashing problems with Toast can be linked to its Preferences files. Try trashing the Toast plist and prefs files in your User>Library>Preferences folder and relaunch Toast to see if this fixes the problem.

[thasco]

When i trashed the toast plist file emptied the trash then relaunched toast and it still quits only when i try to add an avi. Also the toast plist file never came back. WHAT CAN I DO!!!!!

[hech54]

MediaInfo works on Mac. Find out what is inside the AVI file that you know crashes Toast.

[pixel zombie]

Toast is terribly slow for video conversion, i usually use VisualHub or similar app for such conversions.

[rumplestiltskin]

VideoSpec also works well for identifying the nature of A/V sources.

[MacDSL]

Is Quicktime able to PLAY the file?

[terryj]

I second MacDSL...if it crashes Quicktime, then either your .avi file is bad, or
your in need of some serious downtime using Disc Utility to clean up
and diagnose the state of your Hard Drive. If a known good .avi file
that you have played in the past also crashes Toast or Quicktime Player,
I would seriously then look at cleaning up your Hard Drive, first with Disc Utility,
then second look into how much Free Space you have on the disc.

the fact that the .plist file for Toast didn't regenerate points to a problem with the Hard Drive.
Once Toast was relaunched, that .plist should have regenerated.