OK, what the heck am I doing wrong? I run MPEGs through M.Pack to get them Toast-ready, and when I put them in my player, I get no audio! Anyone have any idea why, or how to fix this?

-- Jeff Fetrow (jefffetrow@yahoo.com), January 10, 2001

Answers

M.Pack will not encode audio from an MPEG file. Use a audio extractor like SOUND MACHINE and then use a video editing program like VIDEO STUDIO and put the video and sound together.

The file when finished has to be a *.mov. Then use M.Pack to encode to MPEG with Toast-Ready.

Sorry for the bad news

-- PacMan (4machado@citlink.com), January 10, 2001.

Typo above, I meant VIDEOSHOP 3.x or so. sorry

-- PacMan (4machado@citlink.net), January 10, 2001.

I've been experimenting with VCDGear, and it seems to work pretty well. I have done MPG->MPG, BIN->MPG, and it seems to run through. It also has a 'Toast-Compatible' option, and Toast has been accepting the mpegs fine. I haven't gone all the way and burned one, but if Toast is accepting them it should work.

-- Eric (vcd@leuschen.net), January 11, 2001.

The premier tools for making VCDs is only available on the Mac.

QUERY software has been around since 1995 in Japan and is now English too. http://www.netviewdisc.com

-- Glenn Sanderse (sales@internetdisc.com), January 12, 2001.

if any of you can wait about 2-3 months, toast 5.0, titanium, or something, they had it at sf macworld. will burn vcd's from within itself. anything that's an mpeg 1 file already or copy a disc, or pretty "anything that will play in quicktime" according to the rep there will work. also if any of you know hotline, there's a toast 5.0.2 beta floating around that works pretty damn good for now too.

pants

-- pants (pants@betv.org), January 30, 2001.