Problems with mpg and Toasy 6.0.5

[kard_rellik]

I have been looking for an answer to this problem in previous posts but nothing has worked. Here is the problem. I have episodes of six feet under in .mpg format, when i try to make a dvd with toast i get an error on some of the episodes stating:

Error Messages From Toast
"Could not record the disc because there is a problem with the source material."
Result Code = -18774

I have compared the file sizes, format to other .mpg files that have burned to dvd for me but i can find no difference.

Any suggestions or alternate ways of working this problem out would be greatly appreciated.

[kard_rellik]

oops was supposed to be "Problems with mpg and Toast 6.0.5"

[AntnyMD]

Try demultiplexing your files before adding them into Toast. When you add a video file without audio to a Toast project, Toast will ask you for the associated audio file. I think Toast prefers files it can multiplex itself.

[kard_rellik]

Thanks,

I have tried to demux it with both bbdemux and extractor. bbdeux works but extractor doesn't pick up the audio. With the bbdemux files i throw them into Toast and try to burn the dvd again, the same error comes up as before. Guess I am stuck watching this files through quicktime. Thanks for the help.

[Frobozz]

I have received this error at times with MPEGs created with PixeDV. I have found nothing that works to make the MPEG usable with Toast once this error appears other than

1. Re-encode the MPEG from the source, or
2. Use QuickTime Pro to save a .mov (hinted movie) from the MPEG and drag that file to Toast. Toast then re-encodes the MPEG which takes a very long time.

Addendum: If you choose option 2 you will need to demux the MPEG audio and then copy it back in QuickTime Pro as an aiff audio track in order to get both picture and sound with the Toast encoding.

[terryj]

The fact that your audio is getting hosed in emuxing in your indicator.
I've pointed this out several times before, and Frobozz has touched on it:
To Reiterate:
TOAST LIKES ONLY COMPATIBLE QT FILES.
If you encode your files outside of the QT spec,
God Help You. If your files are downloaded from Kazaa,
Limewire, USEnet, etc., and Toast doens't like them,
it's not the fault of Toast.

To insure Toast will like all your files,
let Toast do the muxing
from QT.mov files.

If you have to use .mpg files, the fact that they playback
in VLC, QT does not mean they are 100% compatible.
PLAYBACK has NOTHING to do with COMPATIABLITY.
This is why there is such a "stubborness" on the Apple
QT boards about .avis. People think just because
QT can playback .avis that Toast should be able to burn them,
and they are stumped when Toast says "Error with Source material."

Because, unlike QT, Toast has no "playback" plugins to CONVERT
anything into spec. TOAST strictly deals with CONVERSION, not PLAYBACK.