I need some help with DVD converting.
This reply would have been at least twice as helpful if you'd only
told us what machine you're running on. It makes a big difference.
Everything was working fine on Panther, then I upgraded to Tiger
and had so many
problems. Ive gone back to Panther but still running into problems.
This tells me that a) either the problem wasn't really with Tiger to
start with, or b) you've been unsuccessful in fully migrating back to
an earlier OS. The only way I know of to do this is to either revert
to backups, or completely erase and reformat the drive, reinstalling
the OS and using Migration Assistant to put back your apps and prefs
from your backup.
I am using Toast Titanium 6.09 to convert AVI files to DVD, this
takes ages and
over the weekend after about 2 hours Toast would unexpectedly
quit. I upgraded
to 6.1 and now it gets about 2 hours through and gives a 'not
enough memory -
error 108'.
Ah, I think we've identified the root problem -- you don't have
enough disk space for this. Toast is (probably) using your boot drive
for scratch space, and needs about 8GB or more free for that to work.
On top of that, OS X may be reserving a lot of free space for it's
own VM files as well, so really you need to make Toast's "scratch
disk" a drive that has as much free space as possible.
If you're reading this and asking "well where did all the free space
go?" I'd suggest looking for something called "Previous Systems" on
your hard drive. I'll bet a fair amount of the "missing" space went
there. You could also try restarting the machine, that will clear out
all the temp files and VM reserved space.
I have tried FFMEG to convert AVIs/MPGs into DVD format then
burning them with
Toast. This works sometimes, but more often than not the DVD comes
out wrong.
Could you be more specific in what you mean by "wrong"?
ffmpegX seems to work fine for me ...
Burning with Toast is fine its the converting to DVD I am having
problems with.
Couldn't it be a problem with the AVI files? Are they DVD-quality?
Are they playable in QuickTime? If so, what's the info on them (frame
rate, encoding of video and sound, etc)?
I know it will take a long time, but after encoding for over 8
hours I still dont
have a DVD finished.
If you're trying to do this on a G3 (and it certainly sounds like you
are), here's my advice: GIVE UP.
Get a G4 or forget this exercise. On a G3, this will never work
perfectly and you will waste MASSIVE amounts of time trying to make
it work. I know, I've been there. G4s are cheap and plentiful. Get
one, along with plenty of RAM (for best system performance) and HD
space (for Toast and general conversion needs).
_Chas_
Claiming that the Macintosh is inferior to Windows because most
people use Windows is like saying that all other restaurants are
inferior to McDonald's.
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