igirl
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Hello, and thanks in advance for your thoughts on this.
I'm new to OSX but a long time Mac user...even would have considered myself above average techie until I got OSX which I find as obtuse as Windows. I've never burned a DVD before, but in O/S 10.4.5 new out of the box it seems no where as elegant as burning a CD in Toast on OS9 - drag and drop files, click "burn".
Now there is all this .dmg nonsense, iDVD doesn't burn anything unless it's input from a videocam and constructed from within the app, disk utility is devoid of any features or logical interface in the sense of drag and drop...then I do some searches and I read that I have to jump through all kinds of hoops just to do a simple copy of something.
Here's the scenario. I have a non-copyrighted movie DVD that i would like to make a copy of. (It even has a VIDEO_TS folder on it, but for sake of this discussion let's say maybe it didn't - is that now different somehow?) I can copy the contents of this DVD to a folder on my HD no problem, but I can see no way how to then copy/burn this data to another DVD. What's up with this?
If I bought Toast or Popcorn would things then work as elegantly as I expect them to for a Mac? Is the iMac G5 DVD burning capability stripped down to nearly nothing out of the box? Comments would be appreciated...
I'm new to OSX but a long time Mac user...even would have considered myself above average techie until I got OSX which I find as obtuse as Windows. I've never burned a DVD before, but in O/S 10.4.5 new out of the box it seems no where as elegant as burning a CD in Toast on OS9 - drag and drop files, click "burn".
Now there is all this .dmg nonsense, iDVD doesn't burn anything unless it's input from a videocam and constructed from within the app, disk utility is devoid of any features or logical interface in the sense of drag and drop...then I do some searches and I read that I have to jump through all kinds of hoops just to do a simple copy of something.
Here's the scenario. I have a non-copyrighted movie DVD that i would like to make a copy of. (It even has a VIDEO_TS folder on it, but for sake of this discussion let's say maybe it didn't - is that now different somehow?) I can copy the contents of this DVD to a folder on my HD no problem, but I can see no way how to then copy/burn this data to another DVD. What's up with this?
If I bought Toast or Popcorn would things then work as elegantly as I expect them to for a Mac? Is the iMac G5 DVD burning capability stripped down to nearly nothing out of the box? Comments would be appreciated...