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appalashlyn - Aug 12, 2005 - 4:00 pm

I am running on Mac OS X Panther, iBook G4, etc. I've recently purchased the Iomega External USB DVD writer. I installed everything per instructions (the Discribe software) and my computer's USB port recognizes the device. However, when I place a Sony DVD+RW 120min 4.7GB 1x-4x blank media disc into the device, it spits it right out. I can read, but not burn. Does anyone have an idea about what might be wrong? I've thought maybe the media I bought isn't the right "speed." I've exhausted my other support options.

philippe99 - Aug 13, 2005 - 10:58 am

Ashlyn, welcome to macosx.com

(1) can you burn simple CD-R disc ? DVD+R ?
(2) which is the exact model of iomega ? "predator" ?

Regards
Philippe

appalashlyn - Aug 13, 2005 - 11:25 am

I had some luck last night with a DVD+R. It burned the file onto the disc, but won't play in my DVD player. I'm, obviously, new to this What file format does the file need to be in to be DVD ready? I've done some projects on DV that I would love to send to my mom to play on the DVD surround sound! I'm trying a .mov to .mpeg encoder to see if that works. But it still won't recognize DVD+RW and I think it may be the disc I was trying to use because I upped the speed of the DVD+R to 8x instead of the 1x-4x I was using before (didn't think it would matter). I have not yet tried burning a CD-R as I can do that on my iBook's internal (and would much rather). I'm not a fan of this Discribe stuff. Do you think I could alter my movies in iDVD and then encode them and pull them into Discribe to burn?

Why isn't the world more Mac compatible!? I thank my lucky stars for macosx.com. I know I can find answers to anything now. Or at least some support!

and under (2) I'm not exactly sure. It's a grey and black body with SuperDVD on the top and no firewire (boohoo!). I probably should have researched and gotten a firewire compatible writer. Thanks!!

philippe99 - Aug 13, 2005 - 12:04 pm

(1) one of the best Mac tool for re-encoding movies format is ffmpegX
http://homepage.mac.com/major4/
(2) the most complete guide about DVD/Movies is here
http://www.videohelp.com/
Well, I never use iDVD,iMovie, ...: most of the time I rip existing DVDs (extract main title, clean region lock, macromedia,...) - I can speak about this technology-
(3) some how-to's
http://homepage.mac.com/major4/howtos.html
http://webpages.charter.net/ernsta/macvideo.htm
(4) about Mac compatibility
Mac market is less than 8% of the installed PCs -> software developpers focus their attention on the Windows base, whatever they are freeware, shareware or commercial. Viruses also !
Apple Steve guru wants (and had always wanted) to control the mac machine form A to Z: design, software, burner compatibility, ....
Fortunately, due to the Unix base of Mac Osx , we can use all the Unix Open Source softwares !


Ashlyn, even if I cannot help you on iDvd or reletad stuff, you can always ask me questions in the DVD/CD field: philippe99 (at) macosx (dot) com

Regards
Philippe

appalashlyn - Aug 13, 2005 - 12:37 pm

Thank you so much! I looked up encoders on Google and have already downloaded your recommended encoder (encoding as we speak Thank you for all your help! I'm glad most of the world uses PCs sometimes, when I hear of friends losing everything from viruses, etc. MACs will always be my choice now (thinking of just getting the Mac Mini w/ superdrive for extra hard drive space and full compatibility).

philippe99 - Aug 13, 2005 - 1:32 pm

Happy to have help you on this point, Ashlyn
The Mini is, for me, the best ratio price/qualit for a desktop machine, even if its graphic card is a little bit outdated.
Please, add extra RAM to 1GB if you want to be in a cumfortable position: video encoding is a great RAM -and disk space- consumer !

Thanks you for using macosx.com
Philippe