[MW Forums]

Roxio at the end of the month will release a new version of their CD and DVD burning software for the Mac—Toast 7 Titanium. It features extensive changes under the hood, including support for the DivX video compression format, the ability to browse iLife content and many other changes. more

[macuser25]

HOLY COW! THAT'S HOT.
I just went and pre-ordered from Amazon. ... good price... free shipping.

[d00d]

It's actually cheaper to get the physical product from Amazon than Roxio as a download. Given, you can get it sooner via download, but as I have Popcorn already, I don't see a pressing need to upgrade quite yet.

[oliverchaddock]

15gb temporary disk space??? I'm sorry but either that's a typo, or it's just ridiculous. My powerbook has a 60gb hard drive. I'm not going to keep 15 of that free just so i can use toast 7.

[macuser25]

PopCorn has the same requirements... it's for the DVD compression... you may need up to 15 GB when using that feature.
9 GB for an uncompressed VIDEO_TS folder on your hard disk.
5 GB for temp file created while compressing.
1 GB for other caching.
So... for all other uses of Toast you don't need 15 GB... but that particular feature you do...

[Peter Cohen]

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I'm sorry but either that's a typo, or it's just ridiculous

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It's not a typo.
Toast 7's video capabilities have been dramatically improved with this release; it basically incorporates all the capabilities of Roxio's Popcorn software.
If you're not going to be compressing dual-layer DVDs and burning archives of them using Toast, chances are you'll never see Toast use that much space, for the reasons that macuser25 succinctly explains in his post.

[kc1ih]

If someone buys this now, will they still be able to use it if they later buy an Intel-based Mac? Or will you then need to buy version 8.0?

[JScott]

The best new feature for me is data spanning. I've been waiting for this feature for a long time. This is going to make my job a lot easier.

[crawdad62]

Well I guess procrastination has its perks. I've been crippling along using Toast Ti 5 on Tiger for months thinking I should go out a buy 6. Glad I didn't. This looks like a more worthy upgrade!

[finchna]

The Elgato support isn't new--it's there with 6.

[JMStafford]

As the DivX website says: DivX 5 does not support Mac OS X 10.4 or QuickTime 7. We are working with Apple to resolve several compatibility issues. And there is no DivX 6 available for the Mac.

[Peter Cohen]

Of course. For one thing, there's already DivX support for the Mac in version 5. For another, Roxio has apparently been working with DivX themselves to ready 6 specifically for Toast 7 Titanium. This will be the only place you can find DivX 6 for the Mac to start with -- apparently Roxio has some sort of exclusivity arrangement with them.

[Nobody]

Hi,
I believe the DivX 6 codec for MacOSX is available as a beta known as DivX Fusion Codec coupled with DivX Converter app. More info at http://labs.divx.com/?src=footer[u]divxlabsfrom_/index.php (scroll down a bit to see earlier blog entries there).

[bigh]

I don't expect Apple to bother with Divx... isn't it basically a competitor to their goals of mp4/H.264?