[BeyondtheMacintosh]

Exactly how do you burn a disc??? AND IM NOT TALKING ABOUT IDVD!! I TALKING ABOUT A FAST ENCODING HARDWARE!!! Like Burnz, Disc-o, Toast, etc. How DO you do it? Everytime I select, Burn a VIDEO_TS DVD, I drag the video files to the menu list (the files are avi) and I burn it, whats strange is that it takes only like 1-2 minutes to burn it, BUT nothing burns, I put it in my DVD Player and nothing plays, not even on my computer. HOW DO YOU DO IT???!! I really need help, I just want for once to burn a DVD with an encoding hardware instead of having to use the asslong iDVD.

[mduell]

You can't drop arbitrary AVI files into a VIDEO_TS folder and expect anything meaningful to happen. Those programs are probably being smart enough to know that the files in VIDEO_TS need to be MPEG2 (and possibly with some special headers).

If you want to place the AVI files on a DVD data disk for playback in a computer, make a DVD data disk instead of a DVD Video disk.
If you want to play the video files in a set top DVD player, you need to reencode them as MPEG2. There are several alternatives to iDVD to do this with.

[Tsilou B.]

If you have Toast 7, you should be able to click on the "Video" tab, click "DVD Video" (do NOT click "DVD Video from Video_TS", because you do not have a Video_TS folder but avi files). Then drag the AVI files into the list, choose a menu style, encoding quality etc. and click burn. That's it.

[BeyondtheMacintosh]

How do I get Toast 7? Is there anyway to download it?

[Scooterboy]

silly me

[iluvmymactoo]

Originally Posted by BeyondtheMacintosh

How do I get Toast 7? Is there anyway to download it?

Yes you can download it from HERE