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Of course, if I could work out how to use iDVD, this'd be less urgent. I dropped an .AVI onto a project, but preview doesn't show jackshit.
iDVD can only accept video files that Quicktime can play. If the AVI is DivX encoded, you might need to install a DivX Quicktime codec to make this work. Still might not work, though, as I find even with the codec that Quicktime player can only play about half the AVI files I come across.
As an experiment, open the file in Quicktime Player and see what happens.
as I find even with the codec that Quicktime player can only play about half the AVI files I come across.
I've run into this. What's a good non-Quicktime player to use?
VLC has the best UI. MPlayer plays sligher more WMV files, but has an odd UI.
If, then, I want to burn a DVD, do I need another (commercial) product? I mean, if I can't find the right code?
ffmpegx is free software that converts video from one format to another. You should be able to use it to turn the AVI into MPEG2 suitable for burning to a DVD.
Sweet. Thanks. I'll still need to replace the burner on the PC, but of course the reason I discovered I couldn't work iDVD and that the burner was broken was because I had urgent burning needs.
I have a large file on a DVD. I want to make a copy of it. I have done it before with Disk Utility (on my mac) but I can't remember how to start.
(I know I have to do something to the disk image before it will burn because "burn" is currently greyed out on the menu.) Anyone?
Don't you think that's rather personal, DCJ?
I figured it out. I needed to make a new disk image first.
No mounting required.
