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[dave393]

I copied and burned an instructional movie from its web site. It was burned with Toast, as a DVD. However, when I tried to play the burned DVD, I get an error message that it's not a .movie file although it clearly is (see attachment). Any ideas will be appreciated.


Dave

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[tsantee]

It appears you burned it as a data disc rather than as a video disc. It also appears (because of the ".spanned" in the file name) that it is burned across multiple discs so this is only part of the video file. A video cannot be played unless the entire file is together in one place. So you would need to use the Roxio Restore application (presuming that Toast was used to create the spanned discs) to copy the entire video back to the hard drive from the multiple discs.

If you want to make a video DVD this is done by choosing DVD video as the format in the Toast Video window. Add your video there, prepare the menu the way you want and then burn your DVD. See Toast Help for info on how to create a video DVD.

Edited by tsantee, 07 January 2012 - 08:54 AM.

[dave393]

tsantee, on 07 January 2012 - 08:54 AM, said:

It appears you burned it as a data disc rather than as a video disc. It also appears (because of the ".spanned" in the file name) that it is burned across multiple discs so this is only part of the video file. A video cannot be played unless the entire file is together in one place. So you would need to use the Roxio Restore application (presuming that Toast was used to create the spanned discs) to copy the entire video back to the hard drive from the multiple discs.

If you want to make a video DVD this is done by choosing DVD video as the format in the Toast Video window. Add your video there, prepare the menu the way you want and then burn your DVD. See Toast Help for info on how to create a video DVD.

I don't think that I actually want a "video" DVD. I've just made one and it's blurry as hell (besides taking hours to do its "encoding).  I prefer burning it as a "data" file; it's much faster and much sharper. And it works quite well that way. What throws in the monkey wrench, I've discovered, is when a video file (that I'm burning as a "data" file) is too long for a single DVD. Only when the file has to be spanned does the error message I attached earlier appear. For the life of me, I can't see why spanning causes all the trouble.

Do you know of a way I can burn a long video as a "data" file and yet keep spanning from messing things up?

Dave

[tsantee]

dave393, on 07 January 2012 - 04:23 PM, said:

I don't think that I actually want a "video" DVD. I've just made one and it's blurry as hell (besides taking hours to do its "encoding).  I prefer burning it as a "data" file; it's much faster and much sharper. And it works quite well that way. What throws in the monkey wrench, I've discovered, is when a video file (that I'm burning as a "data" file) is too long for a single DVD. Only when the file has to be spanned does the error message I attached earlier appear. For the life of me, I can't see why spanning causes all the trouble.

Do you know of a way I can burn a long video as a "data" file and yet keep spanning from messing things up?

Dave

Yes. Burn it to a DVD+DL disc. I recommend Verbatim brand for DL discs on a Mac.

[Tyomni]

Verbatims DL discs work awful 3 of 10 are damaged but I have noticed that they have a good feedback over internet, maybe it comes from my mac or the verbatims products in our country aren't genuin?