Best Method of Burning Video File?

macman

I want to burn an MPG4 video file to DVD-R in the hope that this can be replayed on a standard DVD player linked to a TV. File size is about 700MB.
I'm using Toast 9 Titanium running on Leopard. Would my best option be to select 'Video' and then 'DVD Video"? Is there anything else I need to check/be aware of please?

aliEnRIK

The file needs to be converted to VOB files (a 'VIDEO_TS' folder with files inside such as BUP and VOB)
I personally use IMGBURN to burn them (And it also VERIFIES that whats on the disc is the same as whats on the hardrive)

asininity

I like avi2dvd on windows and imgburn. I could give you a few programs for linux but have no idea what program to use for apple sorry.

macman

Thanks RIK but I don't think IMGBURN is available for Mac. I was hoping I could do it all within Toast from the raw MPG-4 file?
The other alternative is to create a Video-CD, but the file size is just a bit too big to fit on a CD.

Donnie

Choose DVD Video. No need to choose Video beforehand. It should convert directly from MPEG4 to DVD Video.

M4RKM

Follow what donnie has said, ignore people who don't read that you're on a mac....

amazing really innit...

aliEnRIK

markymoo wrote: »

Follow what donnie has said, ignore people who don't read that you're on a mac....

amazing really innit...

Its not that I didnt read. I said the file needs to be converted to VOB files which is true WHATEVER machine you have. So at least the op new what was needed on the harddrive before attempting to burn them.
And that I personally use IMGBURN to burn them (Which MIGHT have had a mac version. I couldnt be ar*ed looking)

Marty_J

With Toast you don't need to do any conversion yourself. You just add the files, tell it you want a video DVD, and it'll convert and burn it.

macman

Thanks to everyone for the advice, did it all within Toast with one click straight to DVD Video.
But I had no idea the encoding took so long. I'm running a Core 2 Duo iMac with 3GB of RAM and it still took over one and a half hours to encode 700MB.

Donnie

macman wrote: »

Thanks to everyone for the advice, did it all within Toast with one click straight to DVD Video.
But I had no idea the encoding took so long. I'm running a Core 2 Duo iMac with 3GB of RAM and it still took over one and a half hours to encode 700MB.

That's normal.

Marty_J

macman wrote: »

Thanks to everyone for the advice, did it all within Toast with one click straight to DVD Video.
But I had no idea the encoding took so long. I'm running a Core 2 Duo iMac with 3GB of RAM and it still took over one and a half hours to encode 700MB.

Yep, video can take a long time to encode. OS X 10.6 should speed things up in that regard, and there has been talk of Apple putting dedicated h.264 encoding chips in their computers for awhile now (not that that'll help with making DVDs).

If you want it to go faster, that's what these things are for.