Please Could Someone Help Me. Im New At This. I Have Mac Osx 10.5 & Im Trying To Burn A Movie I Download Of Limewire. Im Trying To Do It With Toast 7. Please Help. I Also Used Idvd Put They Dont Play In My Tv.

With Toast it's easy, open Toast, click video tab, then dvd video & drag & drop the video file onto the main window. Toast will convert it to the appropriate format after you click the burn button.

Need to make sure you click the video format as image shows.

Other things to keep in mind:
1. Burn at minimum speed your DVD burner & the disk supports.
2. Be sure your player supports the dvd format you are using; ie: DVD- or DVD+ or DVD RW
3. Not all players support RW disks. They don't read as well as DVD R disks.

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Thank You For Your Help Lord It Works Fine. I Was Wondering If You Can Help Me With A Nother Problem? When I Download A Avi Mp4 Movie It Downloads But Will Not Play Some Times It Says You Need More Software. I Have A Mac Osx 10.5.2 Moves Play On Guick Time 7.4.5. What Im I Doing Wrong? Please Save Me Again.

There are many different variations of mpeg4.

I like to keep these two players for back up: 1. VLC - (click on link) _ (choose nearest mirror site)

2. MPlayer - The Movie Player & download the extra libraries also.

3. Perian -> http://www.gnutellaforums.com/292880-post4.html will sort many of your issues for playback via QuickTime.

Thanks again lord it works. only problem is that the sound & picture don"t match, maybe its just a bad copy when that happens.

Thanks again.

hmm did the sound match on the video file when you played on the computer? The codecs within Toast 7 might be getting a little old if the video file had been converted using a newer version of codec than Toast 7 possesses. Alternatively, if it was pal or ntsc & you were converting from that format over to the other, it is something that can happen. Toast is now up to version 9 btw, though I think they jumped between versions fairly quickly in last few years. Check for updates for version 7 at the Roxio site, there may be an update that also updates some of the codecs within the program.

Once again you saved the day. thank you. I upgraded to toast 9. One more thing when i download a crisp & clear movie then burn it, its not as crisp & clear & its a little darker when i play it on my tvs DVD an it doesn't play in all of my DVD players. IM using maxell DVD-RW 4.7gb. may that be the problem?

Different burner brands seem to burn better with different brands of dvd's. Personally I use Verbatim.

One reason it's not as crisp & clear is Toast will re-convert the video from whatever format it was to MPeg-2 dvd format. Each conversion stage will mean throwing away some information & 'some' loss of quality. Also as suggested, if the video file was ntsc & you converted to Pal or vice versa, then yes, there will definitely be some colour, brightness & other issues. Another reason is that viewing on Computer Monitor screen smaller than TV, the pixels can only stretch so far. When the video was converted down to the format you downloaded it at, it's pixel dimensions will have been reduced. eg: Pal format of 720 x 576 pixels, whereas the video you downloaded was probably downsized to perhaps 352 x 240 p.

If it is possible to connect your computer to TV, play the file you downloaded thru the TV & see if there's much difference compared to the DVD.

Another reason for the quality difference might have been your burning quality settings within Toast.