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turambar
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28. February 2006 @ 20:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I am burning some TV shows to DVD for the first time. For some strange reason when I burn the them and play them on my home DVD player, only the first 5 episodes (out of 13) play. When I select any of the 6 through 13 episodes my DVD player says PAL.

I have Toast 7, and thought that it would convert my .avis over to NTSC if any of them were in PAL format.

I dragged and dropped the episodes into Toast 7's Video tap, and selected DVD-Video. I also made sure that the Toast preferences were set to NTSC.
The DVD works on my Mac, but not my home DVD player.

Have I done something wrong? Is there something I am missing? What can I do?
biggy350
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10. March 2006 @ 12:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hope this helps. From res1492 in this thread

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/2/230087

Ok i know this is a lot of encoding but this is how i get my Tv episodes (AVI) onto DVD

First start by opening toast 7...under the "Video" tab choose "Video CD"
Drop in the episodes..for some reason i find that if i try to encode more than 6 at a time
they Fook up...so no mre than 6...it doesnt matter if the little coloured bar at the bottom
goes into the red at this moment in time because your not going to burn the image to a
CD..you just need the .Dat files that it encodes
Now goto "File" And "Save as Disk Image"..Save it somewhere..After it has encoded, right
click and "Mount it"
Now open the Disk image and goto the "MPEGAV" Folder ...You should see your episodes
there...they will be called "AVSEQ01.DAT" files
So depending how many episodes you dropped in you'll have as many .DAT files

OK now copy the .DAT files out onto your desktop and rename them to your TV show.
So....
If you dropped in 3 lost eps
AVSEQ01.DAT=Lost Eps 01.DAT
AVSEQ02.DAT=Lost Eps 02.DAT
AVSEQ03.DAT=Lost Eps 03.DAT
And so on......

Now open up toast again and under "Video" tab choose "DVD-Video" and drop in the .DAT
files...keep your eye on the little colouerd bar so you know when your DVD is full.
Choose the menu style you want and Goto "File" and "Save As Disk Image"
Once this has encoded you will be able to burn the image to a DVD and watch on your
Player

Guys i know that there must be easier ways of getting .AVI files onto DVD but this has
always worked for me and with my new GigaDesigns 2GHz processor upgrade for my G4 it
doesnt take long at all
About 20 mins to encode an episode to VCD then about 1 and a half hours to encode a full
DVD

And please dont ask me any hard questions as i dont pretend to be a Encoding whizz...in
fact i stumbled upon this by accident
I hope this helps you out :D
turambar
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10. March 2006 @ 14:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks!
I'll give it a shot and tell you what happens.

Oh, one question: could I compress the episodes so I could fit more than the normal amount
on a DVD, or am I kinds stuck with the DVD limit?
I'm hoping to use the least amount of DVDs as possible, without really hurting the image
quality (I'm hoping for 2-3 disks a season).

This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 10. March 2006 @ 15:12

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turambar
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22. March 2006 @ 12:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well, I followed the instructions, and my problem was solved, but also replaced with a new one.

All the episodes I burnt play on my DVD player now, but there is no sound. At all.

Now, the strangest part is when I pop my DVD into my PS2, the exact opposite happens. When I go into an episode, I get sound, but no picture (the image stays on the menu selection).
This happens on every episode.

It seems I have made one tiny step forward with the instructions above. Is there anything else I can do? Any suggestions?
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