Burning bluray - no Toast

I just bought this external Blu Ray drive (LG BP06) thinking I would have to buy Toast to burn files to a disc. It didn't come with any software (it has a DVD for windows but I never inserted it in my Mac). Surprisingly, it worked just like a regular DVD!!!
I checked the size and all the files are there (23GB out of 25 max). I wonder why everybody says you need Toast and nothing in Lion doc says you can burn BluRay discs.
So I am not marking this as a question since I have no problem, just curious how it works.
Thanks

Burning Bluray data disks have not been a problem on Macs
since the later versions of Snow Leopard. Where the issue
arises is the file system support for burning Blurays as
movie disks playable on commercial Bluray players. Also
may be some other details as well.
This is where software like Toast is required.

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Please don't create two separate threads with virtually the same topic. It makes it very hard to keep up with what has been suggested to you and what you've already tried.
>Adobe: why the hell did you do this?
Also, this is a user to user forum. Please direct any communications for Adobe directly to Adobe the clicking the Contact Adobe button.
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regards,
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and Selecting the demo video: “Easy Export”,
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http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/overview.html
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Oliver Lu wrote:
I have a set of files, .img .ccd and .sub, I'm trying to burn (or just view, it's a movie), I've tried viewing in VLC, burning using Burn, converting to a .bin file and then mounting, nothing's worked so far so I got Toast Titanium because you're supposed to be able to mount the .img file and then either
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Hi.
A problem and some questions.
My Toast (6.1.1) keeps freezing and Force Quit doesn't work.
I have deleted pref files (found two), reinstalled, cretaed new user, to no avail.
That's the problem. Now the Q's:
1
I prefer Toast over DVDSP as you can control burning speed. But having said this, I did burn today from DVDSP (I have the bundled version that comes with FC Studio 5) and it plays well on two stand alone DVD players I tried. I used Verbatim X16 media. Is burning speed still an issue?
2
If I go buy Toast 7 will it stop hanging on me?
3
Any ideas as to how I can fix my Toast?
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Thanks a mill,
D
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) FCP 5.1.1
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) FCP 5.1.1

1 I prefer Toast over DVDSP as you can control burning speed. But having said this, I did burn today from DVDSP (I have the bundled version that comes with FC Studio 5) and it plays well on two stand alone DVD players I tried. I used Verbatim X16 media. Is burning speed still an issue?
I prefer Toast also. As to the speed issue, it may be a non issue if they are playing okay. Where are the DVDs going? Clients? Friends & family? Youself? If clients then you need to be absolutely sure (different story if replicating discs and this is just samples, you can explain the issue of whaat cause playback problems from time to time), the later, you can always fix it.
If I go buy Toast 7 will it stop hanging on me?
Not sure
Any ideas as to how I can fix my Toast? (First thing this morning I was able to use Toast, the computer had been off all night... does that make a difference?)
Sounds like you did some of the troubleshooting, have you tried also repairing permissions or run diskwarrior? Sounds like if shutting it off then starting it up cured the problem, the boot up clean up repairs may have helped. Are you using an external Burner? Do you have any FW peripherals attached? Sometimes I have had hangs like that from bad cables or power supply coming slightly off, look liked power but not really getting to the device. After the reinstall to you go back to 6.1.1 (or is that your install?) I had an earlier version of 6 that I had to upgrade to 6.1.1.
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