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bigu2fan - Jul 1, 2005 - 8:25 am

I am having some problems burning DVDs. I am using a G4 with OS X 10.3.9.

I have successfully used iMovie and iDVD to edit my own home movies and burn them to DVD. However, when I try to burn DVDs just by dragging and dropping a VIDEO_TS file onto a blank DVD, there are problems on the resulting DVD. I can get the resulting DVD to play on my G4 just fine with the DVD Player application by going to "file" and then "Open VIDEO_TS" folder and selecting the VIDEO_TS folder on the DVD. However, several standalone DVD players I have tried won't even recognize this DVD. I used Disk Utility to compare this DVD with one I burned using iMovie and iDVD and the only difference I can find is that one says "Universal Disk Format" under "file system" and the other says "Mac OS Extended." The "Universal Disc Format" DVD (this is the one I created with iMovie and iDVD) plays fine in any standalone player, while the "Mac OS Extended" DVD will not.

Any suggestions on how to burn a DVD just by dragging and dropping the VIDEO_TS folder onto a blank DVD and then having the resulting DVD be able to be played by a standalone player?

Thanks very much in advance for any help you can give.

--Will
willgreenlee@yahoo.com

vinko - Jul 1, 2005 - 1:46 pm

Dear Will,

My name is Vinko and I will attempt to answer your question.

You should really not duplicate DVD by dragging the content from the original to your DVD-R disk.

You can use one of the commercial programs like Toast's component Popcorn, or your can try some of the Freeware/Shareware alternatives.

BTW: why don't you burn your home video again from iDVD?

I hope this helps.

-- Vinko

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