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From: Rowland McDonnell on 5 Apr 2010 21:33
David Empson <dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz> wrote:

> Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote:
>
> > I'm looking to write a video file to DVD so it can play in a DVD player.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest what software I might use for the job?
>
> To play in a standard DVD player, the video must be in the correct
> format (a specific variant of MPEG-2), which will almost certainly
> require converting (transcoding) from its current format. You must also
> use the correct file structure (.VOB, .BUP and .IFO files in a VIDEO_TS
> folder), and the file system must be the correct variant of UDF.

I was hoping to be able to get the machinery to take over so I don't
have to think about that too much.

> Depending on how fancy you want to get, you may need to create a menu
> structure for the DVD. Some applications provide a simple default menu
> structure.
>
> As a general rule you need software specifically designed for creating
> DVDs.

Yup, I assumed so.

> The obvious candidates are iDVD (possibly with help from iMovie), DVD
> Studio Pro (part of Final Cut Studio) and recent versions of Toast
> Titanium (at least version 8 and later).

Righto - so there's no straightforward way to write a video DVD without
buying some commercial software? (which makes no sense for me as far as
I can tell.)

> It appears that Burn (free) can also create a simple DVD-Video, but I've
> never tried it.

Uhuh - righto. A simple DVD-video is fine by me.

Ta.

Rowland.


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From: Rowland McDonnell on 5 Apr 2010 21:33
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:

> Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote:
>
> > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm looking to write a video file to DVD so it can play in a DVD player.
> > >
> > > Can anyone suggest what software I might use for the job?
> >
> > <http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html>
> >
> > It's free, but quite unstable. When burning a Video DVD you *must* turn
> > off the DVD menu option or it *will* crash.
> >
> > It may also crash anyway. It was last updated...some time ago, shall we
> > say.
>
> There still seems to be development going on with it. In the svn source
> there are commits from a few weeks ago

Righto.

Ta all.

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From: Jim on 6 Apr 2010 01:37
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:

> > > I'm looking to write a video file to DVD so it can play in a DVD player.
> > >
> > > Can anyone suggest what software I might use for the job?
> >
> > <http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html>
> >
> > It's free, but quite unstable. When burning a Video DVD you *must* turn
> > off the DVD menu option or it *will* crash.
> >
> > It may also crash anyway. It was last updated...some time ago, shall we
> > say.
>
> There still seems to be development going on with it. In the svn source
> there are commits from a few weeks ago

That's good to know. There's a distinct lack of software that does what
this does, or so it seems to me.

Jim
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From: Phil Taylor on 6 Apr 2010 06:32
In article
<1jgi9lb.1qj071h1wx26kiN%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid>,
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote:

> David Empson <dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz> wrote:

> > The obvious candidates are iDVD (possibly with help from iMovie), DVD
> > Studio Pro (part of Final Cut Studio) and recent versions of Toast
> > Titanium (at least version 8 and later).
>
> Righto - so there's no straightforward way to write a video DVD without
> buying some commercial software? (which makes no sense for me as far as
> I can tell.)

iDVD comes with the OS. There is also an app named "iDVD getting
started" which lives in /Library/Documentation/Applications/iDVD which
will tell you what to do. It's a bit of a long-winded process, as you
have to first import your movie into iMovie, then export it from there
to iDVD.

Phil Taylor
From: Chris Ridd on 6 Apr 2010 06:38
On 2010-04-06 11:32:48 +0100, Phil Taylor said:

> iDVD comes with the OS. There is also an app named "iDVD getting

It comes with new Macs (and copies of iLife :-) not the OS. I suppose
there's some cost incurred on licensing the right variety of MPEG 2
encoder which is why there are no - or very few - free encoding apps.

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