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[Iceman]

I've recently had a couple of occasions where a DVD was compressed, but failed to burn without errors.

These are particularly fustrating, since Toast gives me no option to retry the burn. This wouldn't be so bad except that the compressed image is not retained, so I have to wait while Toast recompresses the DVD.

Could you folks change Toast so that the compressed image is retained, to be used again in the event of a failed or cancelled burn?

[John at Roxio]

Save it as an image file, rather then burning directly to the DVD.

[Iceman]

John at Roxio, on Oct 5 2006, 10:04 AM, said:

Save it as an image file, rather then burning directly to the DVD.

Well, yes I could do that, but at best that would be a circumvention (and something that Toast ought to do for me). After all, that's what Toast does (saves it as an image file in /tmp, right)? Just don't be in such a darn hurry to dispose of it so in the event of failure - or a belated neuron firing - I can retry.

I think it's pretty obvious that having spend 20 minutes compressing the movie that if the burn failed I'd want to retry it - and that I wouldn't want to spend another 20 minutes compressing it before trying to burn it again.

Come to think of it, on just about any burn it'd be nice if there was a Burn Another Copy? button so you could use your last burn setup to make another copy, whether you're Compressing/Burning a DVD or copying a CD on a single drive system (like Nero does).

Thanks for listening.