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Toast 7 Question

Does anyone use Toast Titanium 7 (by Roxio)?

Is this the right place for a question on Toast?

I am trying to make a CD that will be able to play slide-shows in DVD players that connect to Televisions.

I tried first with Toast Titanium 6 and then realized that Tiger is not compatable with Toast Titanium 6. So I plucked down the $70 upgrade to "Element 5", downloaded and installed.

I can cut a data CD.

But when I cut a "Super Video CD" with a QuickTime slide-show that I created in iPhoto, it will not play in the DVD player on my TV, nor in the G4 iMac Superdrive.

G4 iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on May 12, 2006 10:12 AM

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May 12, 2006 10:39 AM in response to FreddieVee

Hi, Freddie.

1. You wrote:
"But when I cut a "Super Video CD" with a QuickTime slide-show that I created in iPhoto, it will not play in the DVD player on my TV, nor in the G4 iMac Superdrive."
VCD and SVCD (Super VCD) are different formats. SVCDs uses MPEG-2 video compression (encoding). VDCs employ MPEG 1 encoding.

QuickTime supports conventional VCDs: see "Mac OS X 10.4 Help: Playing a Video Compact Disc (VCD)." With Quicktime, MPEG-2 compression is only available with the extra-cost QuickTime MPEG-2 Component.

Your home DVD player may also not support the SCVD format. Check the manual that came with the DVD player for the disk formats it supports. For example, my home DVD player supports VCDs but not SVCDs.

Try burning a VCD instead.

Note that if you use iDVD to create a DVD of the iPhoto slide show and burn it to DVD-R media, it should play on both Macs running Mac OS X and most home DVD players. See:
"iPhoto 6.0 Help: Exporting a slideshow to iDVD."

"iDVD 6.0 Help: Using slideshows created in iPhoto."

"iDVD 6.0 Help: Creating an iDVD slideshow."
For information on viewing VCDs and SVCDs under Mac OS X, see my "VCD and SVCD Players" FAQ.

2. You wrote:
"Is this the right place for a question on Toast?"
Technically, no. Roxio has their own Discussion Groups for their products.

Good luck!

😉 Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

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May 12, 2006 10:57 AM in response to Dr. Smoke

Smoke Wrote:
VCD and SVCD (Super VCD) are different formats. SVCDs uses MPEG-2 video compression (encoding). VDCs employ MPEG 1 encoding...Your home DVD player may also not support the SCVD format. Check the manual that came with the DVD player for the disk formats it supports. For example, my home DVD player supports VCDs but not SVCDs.

Try burning a VCD instead.


My home DVD player supports SVCD's but not VCD's.

I made a DVD and it works in the iMac and in a DVD portable player and a TV-DVD player.

I was hoping to make CD's that would play like DVD's in TV-DVD players.

I wrote:

"Is this the right place for a question on Toast?"

Technically, no. Roxio has their own Discussion Groups for their products.




They have no discussion group for Toast 7 as of yet at Roxio.com. Support phone calls are $35 and the "Live Chat" doesn't seem to work.

May 12, 2006 5:20 PM in response to FreddieVee

You wrote:
"My home DVD player supports SVCD's but not VCD's."
Interesting. Their are three different specifications for VCD, but sometimes VCD is used as a generic term to represent both VCD and SVCD. You might want to check the VideoHelp searchable database of DVD Player features to see what others may have reported w.r.t. your home DVD player.

VideoHelp is also a good site for searching for answers or posting questions such as you have.

You wrote:
"I was hoping to make CD's that would play like DVD's in TV-DVD players."
I understand. It's the only real use for VCD or SVCD since their fidelity is about the same as VHS tape.

You wrote:
"They have no discussion group for Toast 7 as of yet at Roxio.com"
Yes, they do. See their Toast 7 Discussion.

And it's Dr. Smoke or Doc. 😉

Good luck!

😉 Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

May 12, 2006 11:39 PM in response to Dr. Smoke

Dr. Smoke: Please forgive the name mistake. I was still editing and hit the wrong "button" and posted.

I am trying to learn the tricks of this board as far as using < and >, etc.

G4 iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

It seems like everytime I "Preview" it adds on the " G4 iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6) " again. I was trying to quote you and wound up removing more (including the "DR.") than I wanted to. I wish there was a way to re-edit if you find a mistake after the "Post Message" Button is hit and/or a way to delete a post. I saw the missing "DR." and could not undo my error. I saw the "edit" ican and changed the message and when I hit "Save", I got a message that I was not allowed to edit the message. Is there a time limit?

I am used to forums that are more forgiving or at least you can PM another member to say, "Oops".

I don't know how I missed the "Toast 7" forum. It was not my best day.

FreddieVee


G4 iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

May 13, 2006 4:15 PM in response to FreddieVee

Hi, Freddie.

No problem.

After you've submitted a post, you have a limited time to edit it, something like five or ten minutes. To edit a post after you've submitted it, click the Edit icon: it looks like a speech balloon with a pencil atop it to the left of the swept arrow (Reply) which is to the left of Reply link at the top of the post in question.

The left-most icon in the following screen shot is the Edit icon:

User uploaded file

When the Edit icon isn't present, it means the time to edit the post has expired.

Good luck!

😉 Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

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