How do you burn? If the words “hot and slow” crossed your mind in a silky tone, chances are you burn with Roxio Toast. A fine product that does, well, just about everything you can with an optical disk, Toast has been a staple on the Mac since Dr Markus Fest first released it back in 1997.

For a smaller and faster app with an compact feature set that’s free, have a look at Burn 2.5 (change log). This latest version offers some significant changes:

• Fixes a problem with authoring DVD-Video discs
• Added support for a joliet long filename hack (103 characters)
• Fixed a problem with ‘Apple Intermediate Codec’ video files
• Fixed some aspect ratio problems
• Creates an .isoInfo file to make Audio-CD iso files reproducible in Burn
• Fixes copying Audio-CD discs
• Fixed French spelling error
• Fixed problem with mono audio files
• Fixed NTSC VCD size
• Fixed DV conversion to NTSC DVD or SVCD
• Updated convertion engine, new ffmpeg binaries
• Fixed some sync issues with mp4, m4v and mov files
• AC3 sound of avi files is used when converting to DVD mpg
• Added support for QuickTime chapters
• Fixes mount/eject setting
• Other bug fixes

See also: Wikipedia: Roxio Toast

Get your copy of Burn 2.5 here (19.2MB).