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[edmond4]

Do any of you have any idea how I might correct the fact that Toast crashes about 50% of the time that I burn EyeTV recordings.  Data DVD's and CD's burn just great and at full speed, but with underburn protection, and burning at the slowest speed, and doing all things that Roxio suggests, I am getting a constant rate of failure, about 10 or more disk failures in 20 attempts.  This is a huge waste of time as well as money, taxing my patience.

Does anyone have suggestions on a remedy?  It seems that Roxio sure doesn't these months later.  Also, it is not the fault of EyeTV recordings, as I've tried to burn other video with the same failure occuring.



Thanks

[tsantee]

I don't know why you would have this issue. Do you have plenty of available hard drive space? At what point does Toast crash?

Have you tried choosing Save as Disc Image from the File menu instead of clicking the burn button and then burned the resulting disc image using the Image File setting in the Copy window?

[edmond4]

I don't know why you would have this issue. Do you have plenty of available hard drive space? At what point does Toast crash?

Have you tried choosing Save as Disc Image from the File menu instead of clicking the burn button and then burned the resulting disc image using the Image File setting in the Copy window?

Thanks for the reply.

It failes it seems during the burn.  I've had as much as 60 gigs free at a time durring burning.

In terms of the Save as Disc Image, I've tried that, or so I thought.  Can I do that without actually burning as well?  It always wants to burn as well.  I'll have to go back and check on that.

[tsantee]

Thanks for the reply.

It failes it seems during the burn.  I've had as much as 60 gigs free at a time durring burning.

In terms of the Save as Disc Image, I've tried that, or so I thought.  Can I do that without actually burning as well?  It always wants to burn as well.  I'll have to go back and check on that.

When you Save as Disc Image there is no burning of a disc. The disc image can be mounted and played with DVD Player the same as if a recorded disc was in the drive. After seeing that everything looks great, burn it to DVD in the Copy window.

Are you using the Toast Media Browser's EyeTV button to access the EyeTV videos or are you using EyeTV's Toast button to send the video to Toast?

[edmond4]

When you Save as Disc Image there is no burning of a disc. The disc image can be mounted and played with DVD Player the same as if a recorded disc was in the drive. After seeing that everything looks great, burn it to DVD in the Copy window.

Are you using the Toast Media Browser's EyeTV button to access the EyeTV videos or are you using EyeTV's Toast button to send the video to Toast?

How is it that I didn't have this thing figured out where I could create a disc image through

File> Save As Disc Image

One success through that strategy now under my belt.  I saved the disc image, it muxed the files, and then I took the disc image, opened it and dropped the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders into toast for a successful burn.  It worked flawlessly on this first try.

I am using the media browser in Toast to look right at the EyeTV files.  I wish I could burn these without any problems, without such a high failure rate.  At least now I may have found the option to continue forward, though it will be more time consuming than if the outright drag and burn method one would expect to work---would in fact work for me.

Edited by edmond4, 04 April 2007 - 06:38 PM.

[tsantee]

How is it that I didn't have this thing figured out where I could create a disc image through

File> Save As Disc Image

One success through that strategy now under my belt.  I saved the disc image, it muxed the files, and then I took the disc image, opened it and dropped the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders into toast for a successful burn.  It worked flawlessly on this first try.

I am using the media browser in Toast to look right at the EyeTV files.  I wish I could burn these without any problems, without such a high failure rate.  At least now I may have found the option to continue forward, though it will be more time consuming than if the outright drag and burn method one would expect to work---would in fact work for me.

I'm glad that at least the workaround is working. You can save a little time by simply choosing the saved disc image using the Image File setting in the Copy window rather than dragging the mounted TS folders to the video window - and then burning the DVD.

[edmond4]

I'm glad that at least the workaround is working. You can save a little time by simply choosing the saved disc image using the Image File setting in the Copy window rather than dragging the mounted TS folders to the video window - and then burning the DVD.

Awesome.  I'll indeed try that.

I'm on my second try, Toast Crashed before the Image was multiplexed and completed ready to burn, so It's doing so again, but at least I'm not destroying Blank DVD Media this way when it does crash.