Strange Problems with Toast & ffmpeg in Panther

[Macman]

I have at last count 6 machines running Mac OS 9.1, 9.2.2, Jaguar 2.8 and Panther 10.03. I use Toast 6.03, QT Pro 6.5 and a whole bunch of other apps for my video work.

Seems that Toast 6.3 on my Jaguar machine a souped up Umax S900 has no problems burning SVCD and VCD. The machine with Panther is a Dual 1.25 Ghz Mac purchased last fall. Before I open Toast I have to throw the plist files for toast and Roxio in the trash otherwise it does nothing. If I quit it I have to do the same thing over again. Also on the Panther drive I had ffmpeg work perfectly for a week, now it will not split a MPG or AVI file that is too large in running time for burning to a VCD or even encode. I doubled checked to make sure that everything had been installed.

Anyone having problems like this or that have some answers that could help me out.

Now my other problems are that I could not split a DivX AVI into two parts with ffmpeg and I have a MPG that QT said is 1:05 in time length but Toast said that it was 2.05 and it could not burn it.

Any suggestions as how to tackle this would be appreciated.

Macman

[WiseWeasel]

Repair permissions? When in doubt . . .

[Macman]

This is a follow up to my first post.

Yes repairing permissions does help but it seems that Toast 6.03 has a bug in it when used with Panther 10.3.3, which gives a Mac OS error 50 if you quit the program and then open it to do something else. Then you have to throw the plist files in the trash, reinstall than it is OK. This does not happen in Jaguar 10.2.8.

The other problem with a mpg file that QT said was 1:05 and Toast said was 2:05 was solved by using QT to export the file to a mov and burning it in Toast. I also was able to create a bin/cue of it with VCDtoolsX also.

Macman

[WiseWeasel]

Yeah, I had to revert to Toast 6.0 because of that bug...