Encoding-queueing in Toast Titanium 10 (or elsewhere)

contraband

I have a bunch of .MP4 video files I'm burning to DVD-Video using Toast Titanium 10 on my MacBook Pro. Right now, I'm doing them one at a time. Because my computer is several years old, encoding video for a single DVD takes approximately six hours. I've discovered that it appears I can encode the video directly to a .toast format — however, I have yet to figure out if I can burn these directly to DVD. Also, I have quite a bit of video left to burn, and even that method would require me intervening manually to start a new encoding or burn job every six hours. Would it be possible to somehow queue up multiple DVD-Video encoding jobs at once, and have the computer work through them automatically? The actual writing to DVD disc doesn't take nearly as long, and if I had all my video encoded for me to begin with my job would be a lot quicker.

Maybe this can be accomplished with a different piece of software?

Doc

Are you comfortable with the command line? If you have ffmpeg (open source video encoding software. Used everywhere to the point that I'd bet $1 that Toast is using it under the covers) you could do something like this:

If your source directory has all the video files in it and nothing else, and output directory is somewhere else.

find <source directory> -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} ffmpeg -i {} -target ntsc-dvd <output_directory>/{}.dvd.mpg