What MPEG-2 spec does Toast 7 need to allow button image?

[broaddd]

I am encoding MPEG-4 to MPEG-2 in ffmpegx to then burn in Toast 7 (as Toast 7's encoding always seems lesser quality to me). But I find that Toast won't allow me to select a button image (for the DVD menu) for the MPEG-2's I drag in. It just displays a generic media icon for the button, and burns the disc with those buttons. Can I fix this?

Cheers,
B

[macuser25]

After you drag/drop in your MPEG2 video, click on the thumbnail image that appears in the main window. Hover your mouse pointer for a few seconds and you will get a slider to pick a new keyframe from the video.

[broaddd]

Yes, I get the slider, but Toast only displays the generic media icon in the thumbnail regardless of where I put the slider. it burns ok, just with that ugly icon as the button.

[mberndt100]

I believe it's because you don't have the mpeg-2 component for quicktime.
I also don't have this component, and I know Toast uses quicktime in some capacity. I have also experienced this problem.

then again, I may be completely wrong

[macuser25]

no... it has nothing to do with the mpeg-2 component... you don't need that with toast... it includes an mpeg1/2 encoder and decoder.

i just tried it with my mpeg2 file and it works fine... are you using v7.0.1 of toast? what is the source of the mpeg file?

[broaddd]

As in my original post, the source of the mpeg-2 file is a conversion from mpeg-4 by ffmpegx - so I'm wondering if different ffmpegx settings will fix the issue.