John, you don't say what format the original movie is in. Did you create it in iMovie or is it a movie off YouTube or something similar?
A home video player will play movies that are in a particular format, this is
the job for iDVD or perhaps Toast if you have that. If you open a commercial
DVD on your computer you will see a video folder containing .VOB documents.
THis is the format for videos used on a home DVD player.
When you copy and burn to a DVD disk straight from the computer the disk is
merely a data / storage disk. Home video players usually won't play these disks.
Regards,
Eugene
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On 06/04/2010, at 12:44 PM, John Daniels wrote: > > Thanks Peter > I do have iDVD which I have never used so I will read up on it. > I always burn CDs or DVDs by just copying files to a burn folder and burning > from there. > I understand there is something called multiplexing or authoring which I > think makes the discs playable on a household DVD player. Is that correct and > if so does my method do this or only iDVD? > I would appreciate some pointers on this. > Cheers > John > > On 06/04/2010, at 8:22 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > >> >> >> On 05/04/2010, at 4:56 PM, John Daniels wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Folks >>> Can anyone give me heads up on how I can burn a DVD from a movie on my >>> Power PC 10.5.8 to a DVD and get it to play on the Mac and also on a DVD >>> player. Which type of DVD to use, -R or +R and how to format the DVD to >>> play on both items? >>> Cheers >>> John >> >> >> In the absence of any further details, iDVD should do the trick for you. You >> should have a copy already installed on your Mac. If not, you'll have to >> fork out for a copy of iLife. >> >> >> Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services >> FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer >> Perth, Western Australia >> Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 064 948 >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >> > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >
