[MacDV] Re: Various newbie questions

[Mark O'Brien]

On Monday, Dec 30, 2002, at 03:40PM, Ira Flatow <iflatow at iraflatow.com> wrote:
>
>I have not had any luck burning VCDs from Toast. They are not recognized by
>my regular VCD player or even by my Mac with VCD capabilities.
>Any hints?  I followed the directions for exporting to VCD from Quicktime
>Pro into Toast, then I burn the VCD using the Toast menu but the resulting
>VCDs are not playable.

I have had luck burning VCDs when I've either a) exported the video from iMovie with the Toast VCD plug-in doing the MPEG1 encoding in software, or b) selcted "Burn VCD" from within the EyeTV software, where the MPEG1 encoding is done in hardware.

Both do a hand-off to Toast Titanium for the actual burning.

Some DVD players just don't handle VCDs, and I've only been able to play a VCD on my Mac using Video Lan Client or other third-party players.

Mark