dv video files is Toast encodes the DVD's audio to Dolby AC-3 format rather than iDVD's uncompressed audio. dv video you used in iDVD would also work in Toast without any issue.
When the video was converted by EyeTV to. What seems to have happened in your case is that the video may have had dropped frames at the point where Toast stopped working right. Multiplexing is pretty quick and has no effect on picture quality. Sometimes it is necessary to go into Toast's custom encoder settings window and turn on Never re-encode in order to force Toast not to encode. What should have happened in Toast is, after clicking the burn button, you should see Toast "multiplexing" rather than "encoding" the video. dv and then iDVD re-encoded it back to MPEG 2 so there was some loss in picture quality. With the iDVD process the video was converted to. It should have been easier with Toast than with iDVD but it wasn't in this case. At least it works reliably, unlike Toast. The ".dv" conversion and burning via iDVD gets the job done, but requires extra steps. Toast hiccuped in the reformatting/conversion process, but just kept right on going to burn just 16 minutes of my two hour video. As described above, the burning process was a disaster, with no warnings. I could scrub through the entire video in Toast, everything looking good. This drag-and-drop transfer was accepted by Toast. The method I used to move the video from EyeTV to Toast was by dragging it from the EyeTV Recordings window to Toast's video pane, following instructions in the EyeTV user manual. I exported the file from EyeTV using the iDVD format choice, yielding a ".dv" file which was readable by iDVD. The whole reason I got the new version of Toast was to make the process very simple. I'm not too keen on a lot more experimenting. Keep in mind that it did not give me any error message. I suspect that Toast 11 has serious flaws. I'm not optimistic that there is an easy solution.
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This appears to be a software problem, perhaps in EyeTV, but more likely in Toast. The second two hour show was equally successful via iDVD.
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I tried turning off verification, recording at 4x (way reduced speed), etc.įinally, I figured out how to move iDVD from another computer, Exported in iDVD format from EyeTV, launched with iDVD, set up the menu screen and burned it. Then it indicates that it has started writing and that it will be done in a couple minutes. Then it starts multiplexing again at 0%, briefly. Next it indicates that it is multiplexing and gets up to about 13%. The first progress message indicates that it is Encoding.
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I tried the second two hour show and got maybe 30 minutes of it.īy the way, I'm running Mac OSX 10.8.2 on a MacBook Pro Retina purchased a few months ago. There were no warnings issued by Toast and I ended up with 16 minutes of my two hour show on DVD. So I launched EyeTV and Toast, dragged the first EyeTV program over to the Toast video pane, verified there would be enough space on a regular size DVR disc and pressed "Burn". I was looking for a straightforward, no-frills way to transfer a couple EyeTV programs to DVD. (I had owned Toast 10 and earlier versions.) So, I purchased the current version of Toast Titanium 11.1_1072 and downloaded it. My EyeTV3 version 3.5.6 (6920) software documentation suggests an easy way to burn a DVD of my program.