[portfoleyo]

I was given a disc that had an mpeg video on it, when i rip it to my hard drive (drop and drag) it shows the file as 2.93 gigs. When i bring it into toast 9 to burn to a dvd it shows up as 1 gig and the dvd comes out with bad quality and skips all the way through. any advice on what i'm doing wrong? i even tried to make a disc image and that file size came out to only 850 mb. something is wrong here. I am running toast titanium 9.0.4. on an imac with 3 gigs of ram and os 10.5.8.
Any advice would be appreciated,
Thanks

[firenhancer]

When you mention a "mpeg video" do you mean a DVD content (Video_TS) or .mpg files? This could also be due to bad source media.

[portfoleyo]

When you mention a "mpeg video" do you mean a DVD content (Video_TS) or .mpg files? This could also be due to bad source media.

it isnt in a video_ts folder, it's just an mpeg file. it plays fine from my hard drive, like in vlc player. hope that helps.

[tsantee]

it isnt in a video_ts folder, it's just an mpeg file. it plays fine from my hard drive, like in vlc player. hope that helps.

It probably has timecode breaks that are causing Toast to misread it. If that is the case you need to use MPEG Streamclip to fix the timecode breaks. When that is finished choose Convert to MPEG in MPEG Streamclip's file menu which simply saves it. Then use the repaired file in Toast.

[portfoleyo]

It probably has timecode breaks that are causing Toast to misread it. If that is the case you need to use MPEG Streamclip to fix the timecode breaks. When that is finished choose Convert to MPEG in MPEG Streamclip's file menu which simply saves it. Then use the repaired file in Toast.

Thanks for the the help, that still didnt work, streamclip usually fixes problems like that

[tsantee]

Thanks for the the help, that still didnt work, streamclip usually fixes problems like that

Beats me, then. You could use Streamclip to convert it to elementary streams and then drag just the .m2v file into Toast. Toast will automatically match the audio file or ask you to locate it. This way Toast only needs to multiplex the audio and video rather than first having to demux it.

[portfoleyo]

Beats me, then. You could use Streamclip to convert it to elementary streams and then drag just the .m2v file into Toast. Toast will automatically match the audio file or ask you to locate it. This way Toast only needs to multiplex the audio and video rather than first having to demux it.

Would that be converting to mpeg with mp2 audio?

[tsantee]

Would that be converting to mpeg with mp2 audio?

No, it's under Demux in the File menu. You shouldn't need to convert anything.

[portfoleyo]

No, it's under Demux in the File menu. You shouldn't need to convert anything.

Thanks, I'll try that, thanks for the help