Trouble with VCD burning with Toast

[stevedave]

Having trouble burning a VCD on my Powerbook..

I have a bunch of .mpg files I would like to burn. When I drag them into toast it is says something about them not being compatiable. When I try to export them out of QT Pro it gets an error saying there is a problem with the track or something. I used Quick Edit pro, set it for .mpg-.mpg conversion, clicked on make Toast ready and then burned a CD.

My DVD player only plays certain brands of CD-RW. When I put the disc in it plays, it counts the time and everything, but there is no picture or sound.

I then re-encoded another clip and checked on the box that says to fix the errors or whatever in Quick Edit. That disc my DVD player ejects, wont play it at all.

IS there something I'm doing wrong? Is the last disc I made right and my DVD player won't play it? I have a RCA RC5215P Any help would be great, I'm hitting a wall, I've tried everything..

Thanks
Chris

[AntnyMD]

When I drop a non-compliant MPEG onto Toast, it asks me if I want to re-encode it. Does this happen to you?

Also, are you selecting the VCD option from the drop-down in Toast? VCDs are CD-ROM XA discs, not straight data discs.

[stevedave]

yeah that's what's happening. I am selecting VCD in toast.

I've tried re-encoding but nothings working right

[AntnyMD]

I know this is not an answer, but I'm stumped. If Toast asks you to re-encode the file, and you do, when it's finished (hours, years later!) it then says insert a blank CD to burn your VCD. Does this part happen?

[major]

When you drop a file (or multiple files) on Toast Titanium (VCD mode), this can be either quicktime .mov files, or MPG1 files.

In the first case, Toast will encode the .mov to a compliant VCD MPG (this can take some hours) and then will burn it.

In the second case, either the MPG1 file is VCD compliant (if yes, Toast will burn it immediately), either it is NOT compliant. To know what a VCD compliant MPG file is, click on "What is VCD" on the left menu of this site.

If it is not compliant (this mean that any of the stream parameters is not compliant with the VCD standard, like the image size, or datarate), and Toast gives you an error message, then you must process it first with another software in order to make it compliant and then go back to Toast for burning. Two cases here:

1- you make it truly compliant by re-encoding it again. Use MPEG Info to see what is not compliant. You will need first to de-mux the file with bbDemux and then re-encode the video or audio separately. This can be done in different ways depending on which software you have. The main options are either converting to .mov (for the video part, use the Export option in Quicktime pro, or a software like MacMpeg2Decoder v2.0a14; then convert the audio from .mpa to Mp3 with LAME or Audion and use Quicktime player to add scaled the sound to the video) and then dropping the .mov on Toast to re-encode to compliant MPG1, either transcoding and remuxing back (MMT & Mediapipe).

2- in some cases you can try to "force it compliant" (supposing your DVD player can handle it, eg. use a MPG1 with higher datarates than VCD standard) by doing a VCDGear MPG to BIN conversion, or by using VCDToolsX vcdimager, and burning the resulting .bin file in Toast VCD mode. If you can make it work, it will be lot quicker than re-encoding. If you can't, the only option is re-encoding.

[erzimeriah]

i'm havin trouble. i can get the audio and video files into quicktime but when i preview the movie it seems a little out of sync. what can i do to fix this? do i need to decode the .mov file at a different frame rate?
also, i'm not getting the option to export my quicktime file as a toast ready vcd. am i looking for the wrong file type, or do i need toast platinum?

[tgpo]

i'm havin trouble. i can get the audio and video files into quicktime but when i preview the movie it seems a little out of sync. what can i do to fix this? do i need to decode the .mov file at a different frame rate?
also, i'm not getting the option to export my quicktime file as a toast ready vcd. am i looking for the wrong file type, or do i need toast platinum?

Next time start your own topic; don't hijack topic threads!

If the audio/video are not in sync use QT mutator to change the duration of the video to match the audio. You can read how to do that under the user-guides forum. Yes Toast Plantinum is required for VCD creation.