how the heck do you burn an avi/mp4/whatever to dvd on mac?

[Sento]

I'm not asking this to troll, i genuinely want to know. I got a macbook pro couple years ago to see what all the fuss was about, but for being the ferrari of music and media innovation - I sure find my self having to bootcamp into windows :S

I went to several mac forums and no one could give me a real answer, one guy even threw the "apple knows best, if your mac can't do it, you don't need it" argument :S

but the general consensus overall was to use idvd, which has been discontinued for many years now and you can't get it anymore either. i tried many of the burning softwares i found through google, but none of them would allow me to play the dvd in my dvd players...

then i went to windows did 1 google search and used dvd flick and was watching my dvd within 20 mins :/ but i digress, anyone know how to do it on a mac?

it's funny how I meet so many people on android forums with better knowledge about apple products, than on apple forums lol.

 

[mikedt]

On recent Macs you just don't burn DVDs, because they don't have a DVD burner. Think that is Apple's intention about them, officially. I've got an older white Macbook, that's got a DVD drive and iDVD of course.

"Apple knows best"....you don't need Blu-ray disc in the Mac world either, so therefore we've never supported it in our products.

Roxio Toast 11 probably OK, that is well regarded and supported Mac DVD burning software, that should work with any DVD players, it's not cheap $99 bucks. Obviously you'll need an appropriate external DVD burner if you have a recent Mac.

I use a Mac, because it was given to me...LOL I also use Linux a lot as well, really because it don't wish to be having too many dealings with Windows, especially in this country....PRC.

Other thing with burning DVDs, are you burning a DVD-ROM or a DVD-video? DVD-ROM you're basically just dumping the AVI and MP4 files to a DVD, many DVD players can't play that. You have to make a properly authored DVD video disc, which has the IDX and VOB files etc, and the video source files are transcoded.

 

[NightAngel79]

Not sure if it works on MAC or not, but Convertxtodvd is the greatest software I've ever used. It's paid, but worth it


edit, doesn't work on mac.