If you did the AVI conversions yourself from the rip, you should be able to re-do them using a standard home-theatre DivX format that Toast will accept.

If you used software to backup the commercial DVDs, then you ought to be able to make back up copies of the unencrypted VIDEO_TS folders using any software capable of burning a UDF DVD-ROM (including Disk Utility). (It has been legal since the cassette days if you recall.)Īny other bright ideas that're irrelevant to this discussion?ĭon't know if the following could be considered bright: But I do wish to make copies for family, which is perfectly legal - if this is the sermon you were after. Which is how I got my AVI in the first place. Unfortunately you seem to have encountered one that isn't on your Mac or within Toast. Toast does have some codecs of its own such as the ones it uses to read and encode MPEG 2 and DivX video. This is different from depending on QuickTime Player which is what you're referring to. Toast depends on the codecs from QuickTime and others such as perian, if needed, for its encoding. I just want to clarify one thing I stated. It's more expensive than other paid software for Mac.

Programs that depends in such ways on other programs should be bloody free. Relying on this fading sun in the Apple world (surely QT is not going to be Apple's focus, as the rumor is) is pretty stupid. This version 10 of QT is worse than version 7 of QT! With less features, and not even 'Preferences'. QT with OSX Lion has basically shown the finger. If Toast is 'relying' on Quicktime, they're missing the plot. Sorry, this has nothing to do with Perian.

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