Obout Toast Capabilitys

[Owley]

I am new to Mac and need a program to comvert video (MKV, VOB, AVI, ect) files so I can burn them to a DVD and view them on my DVD player. I have an older player that is not Dvix capable. Can Toast convert and burn my videos for me?? I want to know for sure before I go and buy it. I have used Roxio products in the past on my PC and have been hapy with them. So I am hoping this will do what I want.

 

Ian

[Owley]

Thanks for all the info..

[sknis]

I am new to Mac and need a program to comvert video (MKV, VOB, AVI, ect) files so I can burn them to a DVD and view them on my DVD player. I have an older player that is not Dvix capable. Can Toast convert and burn my videos for me?? I want to know for sure before I go and buy it. I have used Roxio products in the past on my PC and have been hapy with them. So I am hoping this will do what I want.

 

Ian

 

AVI, yes.

VOB are just mpg2 under a different name.

MKV, probably not.

 

I believe that the video formats must be Quicktime playable. Watch this video about video (on the right side)..

 

[patatrox]

Toast has been encoding, authoring and burning video DVDs since version 6. If there is a codec that plays the video in QuickTime Toast will convert it to DVD. I don't know about MKV so that probably doesn't convert.

 

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/perian.html adds MKV support to QuickTime, Toast may inherit that support from the QT component installed.

[Owley]

AVI, yes.

VOB are just mpg2 under a different name.

MKV, probably not.

 

I believe that the video formats must be Quicktime playable. Watch this video about video (on the right side)..

 

 

I have been watching the Tutorials and no where does it say or show that you can convert and burn video to a DVD to play on a regular DVD player. I talks about viewing on iPod and iPhone, or recording to a DVD to play on another Mac computer, but nothing about playing on a DVD player. I am uneasy that this program will not do what I want it to do.

[tsantee]

I have been watching the Tutorials and no where does it say or show that you can convert and burn video to a DVD to play on a regular DVD player. I talks about viewing on iPod and iPhone, or recording to a DVD to play on another Mac computer, but nothing about playing on a DVD player. I am uneasy that this program will not do what I want it to do.

Toast has been encoding, authoring and burning video DVDs since version 6. If there is a codec that plays the video in QuickTime Toast will convert it to DVD. I don't know about MKV so that probably doesn't convert. Neither do Windows Media videos unless you purchase a Flip4Mac version that includes decoding. Some DivX videos require installing the free Perian codec or you won't have any audio with your video.

 

If you buy Toast as a download from Roxio they have a 30-day full-refund policy. So you can try it and if it doesn't meet your needs you can get your money back.

 

There are five sections to Toast: Data, Audio, Video, Copy and Convert. I think you're reading about the convert functions. The DVD authoring is in the Video section.

[jim94117]

I recently bought Toast for the purpose of converting MKV files to DVD. Perian's implementation of MKV support for Quicktime does not always work and appears to be nonstandard. It would really be nice if Toast could convert video files playable on VLC also (open source video player that's more popular than any out there which runs on Mac, Windows and Linux).