[threestain]

I have some home movies and stuff that I transferred across to divx and then wiped the originals. Now however I need to make some dvd copies for relatives and for some reason Toast is choking on this...

Bearing in mind I've managed to do half the home movies, now toast crashes silently at some point during the 8-12 hour conversion process. I'm not sure why, but I think it may be a conflict with the new divx 6 codec I installed (BTW - get a free licence for it by hosting a divx video on your website!). Now I'm not sure why this is the case, but I wondered if anyone else has found the same problem - I'm currently trying an encode following trashing the preferences, so we'll know if that worked in about 6 hours!

Any help would be cool. Cheers.

[WOPR]

Toast does seem rather picky about what divx files it will convert. Are you on Toast 7? This seems to work much better than 6 ever did.

[threestain]

yeah its toast 7...

annoyingly it's done some of the files fine, but not won't do the rest, and they were all encoded in the same way. I would use ffmpegX but I can't be bothered to - seems so much more work and the audio never syncs properly!

[threestain]

Obviously no-one has any ideas...

However, fortunately I have solved my problem (in a round-a-bout way). It became clear that the files were the problem, so I used 3ivx's Divx Doctor II to rejig them into .mov files which went through fine. Also might have reduced the file size somehow!