Re: Assistance with Movie translation

MacFan wrote:
I have a MAC (10.4.10). For some time, I've unsuccessfully
tried to proceed from movies (downloaded as rar files) into
something that Toast can burn onto DVD. Simply can't do it.
Toast (8.0.1 Titanium) is great at burning wmv files to DVD
and also works fine with mov-mpeg4 files. Toast usually burns the
video part of an avi movie, but always loses the audio portion. I use
ffmpegX to convert avi files to mov4 files which then burn fine. Toast

works fine with mpg files but not many long movies are split
into mpg segments.

So I download the multiple rar files and use MAC-PAR Delux
(3.7) to produce the files with the .l00, l01, etc.,
extensions. I can then use Terminal (1.5) to produce an
extension-less file that'll play with VLC but never one that
Toast can recognize to burn. I found ffmpegX for
changing formats but it can't recognize the file Terminal
produces either so, of course, it can't convert to anything usable.
I've seen advice on changing the .l00, .l01 names to .iso.100, etc and
then using Terminal, naming the file to be produced
"name.iso." Terminal will do this but I still can't get it
to load into Toast (always "damaged source.") So I have lots of great
movies waiting to burn onto DVD discs but no clue how to proceed.
Somehow I just can't believe this is a difficult thing to do,
but........

Can anyone advise? Or tell me where to look?

I might be misinterpreting what you wrote (I got lost in ffmpeg and gave
up as good guis became available), but anyway, you can unarchive rar
files with unrarx:
http://unrarx.sourceforge.net/

this will produce an .avi or whatever the original was. I didn't
understand the process you described and this sounds easier to me. Then
you can save almost anything (wmv and most AVIs--DIVX and so on) to mov
which it seems toast will do, using MPEG streamclip
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html

if you do save as... it won't do any re-encoding. But I think the
problem with loss of sound is not to do with the wrapper but something
in the movie file (or sound file) itself, like an audio format that
toast doesn't support. There are so many fuckin movie codecs it's just
insane. If you really need them in DVD format, something like iDVD might
be better than toast, at least you can 'see' what's happening with the
audio track, and it uses quicktime. I don't think toast does. There's a
thought. Do you have perian installed as a plug-in for quicktime? I put
that and flip4mac in and now practically everything works in quicktime.

Well, some of that might help, even if not in the way I meant it!

Andy
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