Toast

formatted. If you're burning in Toast there's a checkbox somewhere that says "Make disc bootable". You will need to find and check this box. ...

Let's see if you drive is toast. Boot into Single-User mode. then run the following steps:

Are you sure that is the disk for that machine? Mac OSX disc 1 implies that is an OEM machine specific installer. If its not the one for that machine, it either won't boot the machine or take you to the beginning of the installion then tell you its not the right disk. So if it will not boot from either the HD or the disk it could mean fubared drive and fubared optical drive or...

It's ok if the HD is toast it didn't have anything important on it. ...

Sounds like the HD is toast. I hope you had a backup or didn't care about the data. During the boot picker you said it showed the HD as a selection but not the CD. Are you sure it maybe it wasn't showing the HD and was showing the CD?

You should be good-to-go. Using Toast Titanium 10, simply drag the video file into the "DVD-Video" pane and click "Burn." You can also save a disk image of the DVD video -- this is useful for checking whether the conversion went ok or not without having to waste a DVD-R -- if it went ok, simply burn the image to a DVD. If not, you can try again without having to waste a...

ok great recommendations, i already have Toast so i guess VisualHub wont be neccesary,right? ...

You can use Handbrake to convert the MKV file to a format that's compatible with Toast/Popcorn, then use Toast/Popcorn to burn the file to a DVD. Handbrake won't get you directly from an MKV to a VIDEO_TS folder -- but it will (as far as I know) convert an MKV file to an MP4 or AVI and embed subtitles (under the "Audio & Subtitles" section), and then you can take the...

Use any number of programs (VisualHub, Handbrake, Toast, Popcorn, etc.) to convert the MKV to a VIDEO_TS folder. Burn VIDEO_TS folder in the appropriate format to a DVD. Watch DVD.

No dice. Still can't read the DVD Video I just burnt. I even tried to burn it from img in Toast. Suprisingly I can burn VCD but the quality is so bad. For info I am using MacPro MacOS 10.4.11