8/31/2005
Toast 7 Has DivX and iLife Features
On August 30th, Roxio released a new version of Toast, their popular Macintosh CD and DVD burning software. After launching the application the first time, Toast 7 Titanium make not look much different from Toast 6. True, between versions, not much has changed from the interface. However, several major features have been added "under the hood."
Two of the most useful new features include support for the DivX video codec and the ability to browse your iLife libraries (iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD).
Other notable features include:
Roxio is taking a cue from Apple's playbook and trying to make difficult tasks easier for the user.
Two of the most useful new features include support for the DivX video codec and the ability to browse your iLife libraries (iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD).
Other notable features include:
- The ability to burn large files across multiple discs.
- Compress and copy DVD movies.
- Add over 50 hours of music to an audio DVD - with on-screen TV menus, shuffle play, and rich Dolby Digital sound.
- Turn DivX files into DVDs.
- Create stunning multi-image HD slideshows with collages, motion effects, titles and background soundtracks.
Roxio is taking a cue from Apple's playbook and trying to make difficult tasks easier for the user.
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what version of DivX will it support? I decided to capture and encode some old home videos yesterday with version 5.1. When i got to encoding, i noticed the speed was terribly slow compared to what i was used to since the last time I encoded months ago. I had 5.1 installed. So i wound up downloading the DivX 5.1.1beta and testing its claims of 12% faster than the 5.0.5 which i had lying around too.
In my tests at framesizes of ~640x436 i see a slight improvement from 5.1, but it isn't faster than 5.0.5. Right now i'm getting 10fps on an AMD athlong 1.4Ghz w/ gf2gts. The codec is set at 1200kbits/s, virtualdub is doing the coding (and deinterlacing + resize), pv is off and this is 1st pass of a multipass.
Some older divx codecs that produced close to par quality would have encoding framerates for identical settings at 22fps. what gives here?
why are there no options to allow for those old style encodings? or do we have to trick out the codec with a special CLI line.
the irregularities with the codec settings are also annoying. from fastest->slowest is not a linear change. if it's not linear then why have a slider, or why use names that are not indicitive of their effects.
all i can say is that i'm glad i kept around all those old versions of divx that work a hell of alot better than these new bloat versions that are comming out held together with spit and a prayer.
i hope Toast has this all DivX crap worked out.
In my tests at framesizes of ~640x436 i see a slight improvement from 5.1, but it isn't faster than 5.0.5. Right now i'm getting 10fps on an AMD athlong 1.4Ghz w/ gf2gts. The codec is set at 1200kbits/s, virtualdub is doing the coding (and deinterlacing + resize), pv is off and this is 1st pass of a multipass.
Some older divx codecs that produced close to par quality would have encoding framerates for identical settings at 22fps. what gives here?
why are there no options to allow for those old style encodings? or do we have to trick out the codec with a special CLI line.
the irregularities with the codec settings are also annoying. from fastest->slowest is not a linear change. if it's not linear then why have a slider, or why use names that are not indicitive of their effects.
all i can say is that i'm glad i kept around all those old versions of divx that work a hell of alot better than these new bloat versions that are comming out held together with spit and a prayer.
i hope Toast has this all DivX crap worked out.
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