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This time the videoplays from the top level menu on the DVD, but it skips and freezes (and crashes the playback window in VLC). I tried burning another short recording from Film 4. (Elgato support have told me that they have seen the -50 error with zero length videos.) It's almost as if the video is zero length. I get the menu, but when I select the video I get a few seconds of blank screen and then back to the menu. Have you checked that you can play the DVDs yet? I've found that, although Toast doesn't give an error and seems to burn the disc successfully, the video won't play in my DVD recorder, or using VLC on the Mac.
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Glad FilmFour seems to be blameless - though why is it only their channel that appears to be causing problems? Thanks. Have also just gone back to 7.0.1 and it seems to be working. Glad I came back and checked before trying the longer workaround. I think the second work-around is better 'cos it's faster, tho it's still slower than my normal method. All I know is, when I put the disc in my DVD player and select the video file, it works fine - the video and sound are recombined and play together in sync. I've no idea what Toast does when it burns the two separate files onto the disc. I then dropped the video file and audio file into Toast and burned a DVD as normal (it took about 2 hours to burn the disc). The export is fast, about the same as for 'MPEG Program Stream' except it seems to take a while to get started.
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This creates two separate files: a video file (with. In desperation, my second work-around was to export from EyeTV as 'MPEG Elementary Streams'.
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This avoids the -50 error but it takes forever to export the QuickTime movie - I mean it's an overnight job! So at this point I even began to consider dusting off my VCR. My first work-around was to export from EyeTV as a 'QuickTime Movie' and then use Toast as normal. (Actually, I like to put two films onto one DVD disc, so I usually drop two mpg files into Toast and use 'Save As Disc Image', then use Toast or Popcorn to copy and compress the disc image onto one DVD.) Anyway, this is the first time I've had a problem, so I assume it's copy protection in FilmFour's signal. I normally export from EyeTV as 'MPEG Program Stream' and then drop the mpg file into Toast. I first came up against the -50 error yesterday when I tried to transfer my first FilmFour recording from EyeTV 2 to to DVD.