Toast Titanium

displaced dub

Hi All

Looking for some help with a problem im having.

Firstly i running snow leopard on a 24" mac, Right i have toast 10 and i want to burn some TV programs that i downloaded onto dvd to watch on my regular tv.

When i drag and drop .avi files into toast it says im missing the xvid, does anyone know what i should do???

Is there another program out there that can do this without the current hassle im getting.

Any advice is appreciated

J-blk

Not sure about Toast (I don't use it) but the error seems to be complaining about a missing Xvid codec - can QuickTime play those files for you? If not, try installing Perian and then try to burn them again:

http://www.perian.org/

displaced dub

Hi

many thanks for the reply I dl perian past night and all seems ok so far.

I have left it burning 4 epesodies of desperate housewives for my misses so should know soon enough. I think it's working because the burn is taking a long time.

Do you have any other recomendations for similiar software. I think I needed perian because all my dls are using vlc

Kev.

To this day I cant see why people use DVDs for putting data on to watch on tv

If you can buy a external hard drive and a WD media player that would sort your issues out


Hope this helps

displaced dub

hi kev

can you explain further about using external hard drive and wd with a tv, i would obviously prefer this.

i have an external hard drive for my time machine backups.

dubmick

Kev. wrote: »

To this day I cant see why people use DVDs for putting data on to watch on tv

If you can buy a external hard drive and a WD media player that would sort your issues out


Hope this helps

in fairness mate not everyone would know about media players and it's not as if the WD Media player is widely advertised. I have to say I love my WD Media player

The new improved version looks class

displaced dub

if you dont have a high def tv how do you connect the wd drive to it?

Sad Professor

displaced dub wrote: »

if you dont have a high def tv how do you connect the wd drive to it?

It comes with composite cables as well. The newer one also supports component output.

finno

or if you have an xbox or playstation you can hook it up to your external drive and watch away. thats what i do

displaced dub

sorry to be a pain here, but is the WD just a drag and drop hd??

just so people know what i will use it for, i download a lot of US TV so would i be able to just drag and drop this into the WD?

dubmick

displaced dub wrote: »

sorry to be a pain here, but is the WD just a drag and drop hd??

just so people know what i will use it for, i download a lot of US TV so would i be able to just drag and drop this into the WD?

WD is a media player, you just attach your external hard drive to it.

Sad Professor

Yeah, or with the new one (the WD TV Live) you can connect an ethernet cable or usb wireless adapter and stream from your computer.