iDVD to burn DVD-RW from SuperDrive
 

iDVD supports the SuperDrive to burn to DVD-R.

The SuperDrive supports burning to DVD-RW, but iDVD does not support DVD-RW.

Is there a way to enable DVD-RW burning using iDVD?

It IS possible to burn DVD-R from iDVD, then burn copy of DVD-R onto DVD-RW using toast- but, of course, that requires consuming a DVD-R in the process, and defeats the purpose of using the DVD-RW media in the first place.


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considered valium?

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i'm not sure why you would want to burn a video DVD to DVD-RW in the first place.

the beauty of DVD-R is that it will play in commercial DVD players.

DVD-R is for video DVD. DVD-RW is for data.

petey,

get over yourself. let me fill you in-

The RW in DVD-RW stands for "rewriteable". Thus, the disc can be reused. DVD-R are "write-once".

Video DVD-RW's play back just fine on Apple's SuperDrive, FYI. Many decent standalone DVD players also do just fine with them.

Personally, I'd rather burn a DVD-RW disk many different times, instead of a $5 DVD-R disk each time.

Perhaps you have too many $5 bills. If so, please consider a financial contribution to macosxhints.com, it would be appreciated more than your snarky comments.

And even if disks were free, rewriting disks is more environmentally sound than discarding write-once disks after they have served their purpose.

In any event, DVD-R and DVD-RW are NOT content-specific, as you suggest.

Hope this helps you understand why it makes very good sense to burn video to DVD-RW.

The technique described in the following thread works OK:

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showth...?threadid=6045

There was a problem- could not eject DVD-R in iDVD, Finder or any other app... workaround = open Toast and use Eject menu command within Toast.

Please post if you have any better suggestions that might be more easy or convenient.

perhaps xanax would do the trick?

snarkiness aside, (and you do seem to invite it), i'm glad you found your solution.

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on a more general note:

yes video burned onto DVD-RW will playback fine on Superdrives.

however, i believe few if any consumer standalone DVD players will play the discs. also, a percentage of computer DVD drives will not read the discs.

(my knowledge of this subject is about 6 months out of date. but even if things have drastically changed for new players, and i don't think they have, it would still mean almost all units in the field won't play the discs.)

all that said, if you're creating DVDs to playback on your own computer, or the computers of friends/family who have Superdrives, well then, great. it's not provable beyond a reasonable doubt that it's a bad idea to use DVD-RW in that case.

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ps if i send in the $5 contribution to macosxhints that you suggest, will you send me a shiny new mac with an internal Superdrive so i can play around with iDVD? that way, i'll be better able to answer your future queries.

petey:

Can I send you $5 Canadian? What does that get you guys down there, a pickle and onions at McDonalds? lol

Canadian, and proud of it, eh!!!

DVD-RW s do play in DVD units
 

I have made DVD-RWs in DVDPro and played them back in my Sony DVD player.
So they definitely do play.
I wouldn't mind being able to burn to DVD-RWs from iDVD too.

My 2 cents.

Griffon