Toast Titanium freezes up when "toasting" a .avi

[Mario8672]

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).

[ElDiabloConCaca]

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?

[philippe99]

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

[Mario8672]

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.