ATTENTION: beware of PERIAN !

[sascha h-k]

hi,
after several destroyed +rdl and -r dvd's i found out, that PERIAN (quicktimeplugin) is the crap that disturbs toast 8.0.3 and others from burning ..

after deinstalling of this shit all went well, i spent many hours of sweating ..

all this with 10.5.1

[SERBIAN]

Hmm..strange..All is working fine here..Toast, Perian and 10.5.1...I'm not exactly sure how Perian can make troubles to burning...

[sascha h-k]

hi serbian,
i have several mac's, all with perian, after uninstall trough the prefs pane no burning problems ..

i was so despair, that i bought an external usb dvd burner, in this configuration i had NO problems even with perian installed, funny !?

[KMJvet]

Can you describe in more detail what Perian does to Toast. Exactly what sort of bug is it, behavior-wise?

[lordsmurf]

I've had no issues with Perian and Toast here either.

[SERBIAN]

Since Toast installs divx decoder QT component and Perian, among other things, also decodes divx, maybe you have troubles with making DVD's out of divx .avi files?..Maybe those 2 components are in some collision on your Mac's?...Is that what you meant or you have general burning problem?

[patlabombe]

Uninstall everything from Divx. My system was unstable since I upgraded to Leopard and I found out I got some remnent of Divx encoder installed (I had previously removed Divx decoder). After all things called Divx were removed, everything work like a charm. Perian has been my decoder of choice for more than a year without any problems with Toast or anything else.

[terryj]

I'm third on this and I'm sorry but I'm calling B*llsh*t.
I've burned two discs today, both Verbatim DVD+R DL discs,
using Toast 8.03 with Perian 1.0 installed on an external FW burner,
from four divx files, and they built and burned fine without fail, on a MBP
running 10.5.1 leopard. WIth the Toast DIVX components installed.

Perian 1.0 is robust and does it's job.
As i asked you in the other post what it was that you trying to burn to disc,
sascha h-k, this is REALLY SUSPECT. If anything, I'd suspect your
Leopard install over Perian. Your, not according to the post, using
DIVX files, but instead are using ripped DVD output from an outdated
version of MTR ( 2.66).

If you have read any posts regarding Leopard, the main thing everyone
says is that Upgrade and Install is a bad deal, and can cause things
that worked under Tiger to not work right under Leopard.

My reccomendation would have been to try a clean install of Leopard
onto your MBP, and then try again. Then, try upgrading your MTR
to the current version and get better, concise ripped output from
a Leopard compatible version of MTR.

The toast board is full of posts where Perian is RECCOMMENDED
to handle avi transcoding in MANY cases. We highly reccomened
it here to facilitate in a wide range of transcoding many
hard to play files ( mkv, flv).

I'm sorry...and you may think you found the answer....
but it's HIGHLY suspect.

If Perian 1.0 was suspect, as many of us use it,
it would have been more widely reported as a problem.
The fact you aren't using DIVX files
trying to transcode them, that also raises a red flag.
And MTR 2.66....MTR is up to 3.0.14 ver. M.
And searching the MTR boards, lots of German release DVDs
aren't compatible with MTR 2.66...but are in the newest version.

Also, you didn't post what type of DVD +R DL Media you were using...
anything not VERBATIM would also be suspect.....
but not as supsect as the old MTR and a bad Leopard install.....

[sascha h-k]

i knew, it's suspect and i really don't want to make perian down !

but, i use mtr allways the latest, as i wrote, same, verbatim ...

and WITH perian, extern usb dvd-burner, NO problem.

[terryj]

i knew, it's suspect and i really don't want to make perian down !

but, i use mtr allways the latest, as i wrote, same, verbatim ...

and WITH perian, extern usb dvd-burner, NO problem.

But in the other posting you said:

this was with mtr 2.6.6 and german edition of bruce willis the jackal and a second, nicolas cage conair.

If your happy with your "theory" good luck then...but there is no "BEWARE of Perian"
issue, because your the only one experiencing it.
Everyone else is running Perian and Toast with no problems.

[Frobozz]

There was an early release of Perian that caused grief for Toast. It was quickly replaced by the perian developer. So some people could have a problem with Perian that is fixed by downloading and replacing it with the current download -- even if they have the same version numbers.

The codec that gives Toast nightmares is Xvid. Trash it and stick with Perian.

[pixel zombie]

does perian make up for the xvid codec?

[terryj]

from the Perian website:

Perian enables QuickTime application support for additional Media Types:
AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), MPEG Layer II Audio
AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
Subtitle support for SSA and SRT

Installation and Removal:
Please consider removing obsolete QuickTime Components: FFusion, Xvid Delegate, 3ivX, DivX, XviD, msmpeg4v1, msmpeg4v2, AviImporter, EX_M4S2, and Casio AVI Importer

[pixel zombie]

thanks for the reply, i'll check it out later...

[terryj]

u r welcome!