[X4U] Toast | DVD Music Albums

[Nick Scalise]

On Jan 13, 2005, at 5:30 PM, verduron wrote:

> On Jan 13, 2005, at 12:28 PM, Nick Scalise wrote:
>> It may be just a bad burn. Rip it back to your HD with MacTheRipper 
>> and open the resulting VIDEO_TS folder with DVD Player. If the 
>> problem shows there, it is bad encoding. If if does not show there, 
>> it is bad burning.
>>
>> Either way, you'll know whether it just needs to be re-burned or 
>> re-encoded and then re-burned. It's probably not worth the time to 
>> try and save the DVD you have already burned.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> --
>> Nick Scalise
>> nickscalise at mac.com
>>
>
> Nick, I followed your advice and it is an encoding problem.
> Since this is a new project I have not burnt many DVD Musical Albums 
> yet. Since there is roughly 5 hours of music on each I haven't checked 
> them all for defects. The reason I found it on one album is because it 
> was right at the beginning. Subsequently I found the same problem on 
> an other one.
> I have several questions:
> 1) How does one avoid bad encoding?
> 2) Is Toast the only game in town for DVD audio burning?
> And more later.

Glad to help isolating the issue.

Unfortunately I have no experience with making DVD Music albums, and so 
I do not know how to solve the problem.

--
Nick Scalise
nickscalise at mac.com