[live4ever]

I'm trying to encode a HD MPEG-2 file to DVD - but after a couple of minutes the CPU usage by Toast drops to less than 1% - I have my PowerBook set to high performance and it's plugged in.

10.4.7
QT 7.1.2
Toast 7.1

Help what's going on - I already tried reinstalling and deleting all prefs etc.

[tsantee]

I've used Toast to encode and burn DVDs from HD MPEG 2 files. I monitor the progress of very slow encoding by looking in the Roxio Converted Items folder to see if the file sizes are getting larger. It sounds like yours stops encoding very near or right at the start. My HD MPEG 2 files were created by MPEG Streamclip after converting from streams captured via Firewire from my HDTV PVR. What is the source for yours? It sounds like Toast can't re-encode it for some reason.

[live4ever]

tsantee, on Aug 8 2006, 08:42 PM, said:

I've used Toast to encode and burn DVDs from HD MPEG 2 files. I monitor the progress of very slow encoding by looking in the Roxio Converted Items folder to see if the file sizes are getting larger. It sounds like yours stops encoding very near or right at the start. My HD MPEG 2 files were created by MPEG Streamclip after converting from streams captured via Firewire from my HDTV PVR. What is the source for yours? It sounds like Toast can't re-encode it for some reason.

I've restored Toast 7.0.2 from a backup it seems to work fine - maybe there is something in the QT update that makes 7.1 not work, because the 90 minute HD mpeg shows up as 0:00 in the Toast add window of 7.1, Mainconcept's encoder seemed to work fine though so I don't think it's the file.