Toast encoded DVD and DVD2ONE

[bigjuggler]

I used Toast 6.0.5 to encode six 25 minute TV episodes to one lovely DVD with menus.

After 12 hours on my little 450 Cube, the resulting disk image is about 5.0 G. No problem methinks, I'll just use DVD2ONE to shrink it. NO GO. I cannot get DVD2ONE to recognize the VIDEO_TS folder correctly. It lets me select it, but shows no further info, no audio and disables the "start" button.

I tried FfmpegX DVD4 tool and it tells me the "file is not supported". I did notice that it seems to have pcm audio....maybe that's a problem?

I did try ripping the disk image with MTR to see if that helps. It didn't.

So, is there a way to compress my 5G toast DVD image so I can burn it to a 4.4 G disk?

Thanks.

[Frobozz]

Something is wrong because a 150-minute DVD encoded by Toast would be much bigger than 5 GB. Remember, Toast takes more than 4 GB to encode 90 minutes at its tightest compression setting (I'm presuming you don't have Jam 6 because you encoded with PCM audio).

Therefore, I believe some or all of your encoded videos are garbage.

I'd download the Toast 6.0.7 update and try again with it. That version (unlike 6.0.5) was designed to support burning to dual-layer media so it should have no problem encoding to a disc image file that is large enough to hold your 150-minutes of video.

Other options are to keep your DVDs to the approximate 90-minute maximum of Toast for single-layer media; getting Jam 6 so you can get 120 minutes on a DVD with AC3 audio; or finding a different application to compress your MPEGs smaller than Toast's 5 mbps minimum.