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Toast Titanium 8 Burns Slow!
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drorbn2000
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Aug 16, 2007, 03:44 PM
 
Hey.
I started to burn a divx movie in toast titanium 8.

And toast burns it REALLY slow...!
What should I do?

thanks for helpers.

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( Last edited by drorbn2000; Aug 16, 2007 at 04:07 PM. Reason: sorry for my english, i'm not an english speaker.)
     
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Aug 16, 2007, 03:49 PM
 
C'mon, we need more info. Which computer are you using? Exact model and specs of the optical drive?
What type of media are you using, burning speed capabilities and all?
     
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Aug 16, 2007, 03:52 PM
 
Mac Mini OS X
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hope this will help you.
     
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Aug 16, 2007, 04:06 PM
 
Are you burning it as a video DVD or as a data CD?

Because if you're burning a DivX movie as a video DVD, Toast first has to transcode it into DVD video format (MPEG-2), which takes quite a while on a Core 2 Duo Intel machine, but is PAINFULLY slow on a single 1.66 GHz G4 iMac.

Toast actually tells you it's doing this. It will first say "Encoding video", then "burning disk", and then "verifying disk".

The burning and verifying should be normal speed, i.e. fairly fast.
     
drorbn2000  (op)
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Aug 16, 2007, 04:09 PM
 
Originally Posted by analogika View Post
Are you burning it as a video DVD or as a data CD?

Because if you're burning a DivX movie as a video DVD, Toast first has to transcode it into DVD video format (MPEG-2), which takes quite a while on a Core 2 Duo Intel machine, but is PAINFULLY slow on a single 1.66 GHz G4 iMac.

Toast actually tells you it's doing this. It will first say "Encoding video", then "burning disk", and then "verifying disk".

The burning and verifying should be normal speed, i.e. fairly fast.
OK man, so should I abort the current burning and make these changes?
thank you. (I'm burning a Divx movie as a video DVD...)
     
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Aug 16, 2007, 04:14 PM
 
Well, if you burn it as a data DVD, it won't play in a regular DVD player (unless it can play DivX films - my cheapo DVD player can, for example).
     
drorbn2000  (op)
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Aug 16, 2007, 04:15 PM
 
The "Encoding video" step takes hours. and I mean hours...

ok look..
I think we didn't understand each other.
in the main window of toast, I chose "VIDEO". In "VIDEO" I chose "Divx disc".
Then I pressed "record disc" (red colour).
and then is my problem...
     
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Aug 16, 2007, 04:19 PM
 
Yep. It will work, but as I said...it's painfully slow. Transcoding video is heavy work.

The Intel-based dual-core machines are *vastly* faster at this kind of stuff.
     
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Aug 16, 2007, 04:27 PM
 
So the only thing I have to do is to wait...
Ok! Thank you very much you're really nice...!!
Now it's night in here, so I'm gonna leave this at burning until the morning.
     
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Aug 16, 2007, 05:20 PM
 
Well. Rome wasn't built in a day...
     
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Aug 17, 2007, 08:25 AM
 
Originally Posted by analogika View Post
Yep. It will work, but as I said...it's painfully slow. Transcoding video is heavy work.

The Intel-based dual-core machines are *vastly* faster at this kind of stuff.
Poster said he's using a 1.66 mini. That's an "Intel-based dual-core machine".
     
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Aug 19, 2007, 04:23 PM
 
Oh whoops, you're right.

Brain fart.

Um...well, transcoding video is heavy work, still.
     
   
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