[cgcollins]

Since I updated to 7.1, every DVD I have made stutters constantly when I play it on my Reoc A3 DVD player. The same DVDs are fine if I play them on my Mac, and also (and this is really odd!) if I play them on the £20-from-Asda player that I have in the spare room! I've now gone back to version 7.0.2, and now Toast is burning DVDs that work fine in every player again. I've been using the same media throughout. I suppose there must be something different about how 7.1 compresses the video ... ?

I've seen elsewhere on the forum that people have been having similar problems with DivX discs. Has anyone else experienced this with plain ordinary DVDs?

[Ilkka]

cgcollins, on Aug 22 2006, 09:11 AM, said:

Since I updated to 7.1, every DVD I have made stutters constantly when I play it on my Reoc A3 DVD player. The same DVDs are fine if I play them on my Mac, and also (and this is really odd!) if I play them on the £20-from-Asda player that I have in the spare room! I've now gone back to version 7.0.2, and now Toast is burning DVDs that work fine in every player again. I've been using the same media throughout. I suppose there must be something different about how 7.1 compresses the video ... ?

I've seen elsewhere on the forum that people have been having similar problems with DivX discs. Has anyone else experienced this with plain ordinary DVDs?

I have experienced exactly the same issue, for EyeTV recordings burned to DVDs with Toast 7.1 had a jerky playback on my JVC DVD player, but worked just fine on my Macs. I tried three different brands of discs (both +RW and -RW), but the choppiness remained until I reverted to Toast 7.0. So I'd agree that there's something wrong with Toast 7.1.

[andymilder]

This is a disaster!

I just spent the better part of two days trying to figure out why I had choppy playback with my Toast burned DVD and realize it's version 7.1...7.0 works just fine.

SHAME ON ROXIO. They need to fix this immediately.

[philbach]

[quote name='andymilder' date='Oct 15 2006, 05:06 PM' post='59606']
This is a disaster!

Well at times I"ve had this problem too. I switched back to Toast 6.0 and the stutter disappeared; the bad news is that when panning there was studdering too, but that issue was less than the newer one.

[John at Roxio]

In the recording options, do you have buffer underrun prevention turned on? Most DVD players dont like it when that function is used and I believe it is on by default.

[philbach]

Well the movie that I burned in toast to DVD was not acceptable. I burned the same movie using Apple's iDVD and the results were excellent. I had the buffer underrun option turned off. My conclusion is that the problem is related to Toast's Compression scheme. Perhaps more compression with less quality.

[w2wprod]

I didn't realize that I had a problem after this update until I ran 20 new copies of a production I did for a client last spring. They are all now coasters. What a waste of time and printer ink. I almost delivered them to the client without reviewing.

Is there any resolution for this problem aside from going back to the previous version?

I'm running Apple OSX 10.4.8 on a G5 dual 2G. It all worked fine before the update.

[phdemou99]

May we hope an 7.1.x update to solve this problem which still exists in 7.1.2 ?
Thanks