04-20-2009, 05:43 PM
Toast 7 was the last decent version for burning AVIs to DVD.
Toast 8 introduced a bug where widescreen video files would sometimes get transcoded improperly and the resulting DVD would play choppy/jerky/spastic video on any player other than software DVD Player App in OS X. It's much more prevalent if your source files are PAL.
They know about the problem. There are periodic posts in their forums about it. They've had sample files and DVDs sent to them and some of the (employee) mods in their forum have admitted to being able to reproduce the problem.
Toast 9 still has the bug.
Toast 10 still has the bug.
It used to be that while they introduced a slew of new bugs with every (Roxio) release of Toast, they at least introduced a few desirable features in new releases. Toast 8 introduced BD burning and TiVo support. What's new in Toast 9 and 10? Anyone? Any killer features to make it worth the expense and aggravation? Bueller?
Toast 8 introduced a bug where widescreen video files would sometimes get transcoded improperly and the resulting DVD would play choppy/jerky/spastic video on any player other than software DVD Player App in OS X. It's much more prevalent if your source files are PAL.
They know about the problem. There are periodic posts in their forums about it. They've had sample files and DVDs sent to them and some of the (employee) mods in their forum have admitted to being able to reproduce the problem.
Toast 9 still has the bug.
Toast 10 still has the bug.
It used to be that while they introduced a slew of new bugs with every (Roxio) release of Toast, they at least introduced a few desirable features in new releases. Toast 8 introduced BD burning and TiVo support. What's new in Toast 9 and 10? Anyone? Any killer features to make it worth the expense and aggravation? Bueller?