Toast 7 - multiple Video-TS on one DVD

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Toast 7 - multiple Video-TS on one DVD

Hi all!
I'm new to the world of DVD (having just got my first DVD writer!!).
I'm now trying to convert some older AVI files I've got to put them onto DVD. I want to convert them overnight at home on my old, slow iMac, then transfer the files to my work G4 to write to DVD.
I have been using ffmpegX to convert the AVIs into Video-TS files, which write to DVD very well. (I find the ffmpegX quality much better than Toast 7's own conversion process).
However, I am then unable to put more than one Video-TS file onto a DVD, where I could easily fit two!
Is there a way to get Toast to accept two different Video-TS folders for burning to one DVD? (Without having Toast re-encode the files first!)

Many thanks for any help!

Quicksilver G4 733, Mac OS X (10.3.9), I need a new, faster Mac!!

Posted on Jun 27, 2007 7:50 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 27, 2007 8:56 AM in response to Mike Graham1

As I understand it, DVD's by definition have only one VIDEO_TS folder. I don't think a conventional player would understand having more than one. The only way to have more than one on a DVD would be to burn them just as data. You could play them with a software player on your computer but not a conventional hardware player.

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Answer 2

Jun 27, 2007 9:10 AM in response to Mike Graham1

You have to tell Toast to make a multiple title video DVD from your AVI files, with a menu to select the movie to play. Everything will go into one VIDEO_TS folder. You can't combine files from existing video DVDs.

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Jun 27, 2007 1:43 PM in response to George LaForge

What about DVD2one? I have read about that working to combine two Video-TS files.
I tried the demo, but it just crashes after about 50% processing the files.
Anyone else got it working?

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Answer 4

Jun 27, 2007 2:40 PM in response to Mike Graham1

D-Vision 3 can merge the VOB files from multiple Video_TS folders, just make sure to add them in the right order.
Click the Tools button to get to the options.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16486

Toast 7 can process the combined VOB file into the correct sized segments and create a single DVD.

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Mike Graham1 Author

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Jun 28, 2007 2:04 AM in response to Dave Hamilton

Thanks for that.
Before I get too far into finding out how to use the software, perhaps you would be able to tell me...
What I'm actually trying to do is put two 40 minute episodes of a TV series (which I've saved in the past as AVIs) onto the one DVD.
Would D-Vision enable me to do this, and to retain the episodes a separate things on the DVD, or would it combine them into one long 'episode'?
Many thanks!

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Answer 6

Jun 28, 2007 2:26 AM in response to Mike Graham1

"What I'm actually trying to do is put two 40 minute episodes of a TV series (which I've saved in the past as AVIs) onto the one DVD.
Would D-Vision enable me to do this, and to retain the episodes a separate things on the DVD, or would it combine them into one long 'episode'?"

When I used it, I got one long episode, but I didn't try to separate them. The original recordings were low quality, and I didn't want to risk any loss of quality from processing whatsoever.
If your recordings are good quality, you might be able to create a menu in Toast to make independent episodes on the same disk.

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