Toast Titanium freezes up when "toasting" a .avi

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jasfa131

The Lone Deranger
I have a 714MB .avi file which I want to burn to a DVD. However, when I drag it, Toast becomes unresponsive. I have the latest version (8.0.3).
 
It could be that Toast is simply doing some initial processing or examination of the file, which could be very processor-intensive, causing Toast to appear frozen.

Can you let it sit for a while (an hour or more) and see if it unfreezes?
 
If, through Toast, you plan to re-encode the .avi as a DVD (Video tab), Toast is well known to be so slow.
And depending on the codec used to create the .avi file, Toast can be slower... yes, it is possbile ;)

In my case, a typical 20' minutes when I drag a 700MB .avi file to the Toast803's Video window before gaining the focus again ... is ?normal?

Such a long time was not with Toast 7.0 !

So, tired of this latency time, I decided to buy a home dvd-player which can handle avi/divx file: less than 50$

Opening a Data/DVD-ROM(UDF) Toast's window, I burn 4 or 5 .avi files on the same DVD without the need to re-encode them
 
Yea, that's basically it. I let it sit for an hour and it finished. Then the burning and "encoding" took another 2-3 hours. Really lame. Roxio should improve on that.
 
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