DVD Burner

[Eric Noa]

Hi guys,

I have some homevideos on DVD's that I created a while back and I wanted to make a couple copies for the family and I was wondering if there was any free software I could download that would let me copy does DVD's and play them on a DVD player.

Thanks

 

[DoFoT9]

hey there,

you should use OSX's built in "Disk Utility" application. it can be found in Applications->Utilities.

its very good.
1. insert you DVD to copy
2. open Disk Utility
3. on the left list in Disk Utility, click the DVD when it comes up
4. Click the "Burn" button up the top.
5. away it goes

 

[Eric Noa]

thanks... I did that but its asking me to select an image to burn

hey there,

you should use OSX's built in "Disk Utility" application. it can be found in Applications->Utilities.

its very good.
1. insert you DVD to copy
2. open Disk Utility
3. on the left list in Disk Utility, click the DVD when it comes up
4. Click the "Burn" button up the top.
5. away it goes

 

[DoFoT9]

thanks... I did that but its asking me to select an image to burn

that means that you are not click on the DVD disc when it mounts. to fix this, on the left panel make sure you have the name of the DVD highlighted. then click Burn.

 

[Eric Noa]

thats the thing.. I have it highlighted

 

[DoFoT9]

thats the thing.. I have it highlighted

there are two scenarios that will bring that up for this instance.
1. you havent inserted the DVD
or
2. you have selected the DVD drive itself and not the actual DVD that you have inserted. the picture that i have attached shows the DVD drive itself. i dont have a disc to insert - but the DVD will come below that and it will be indented. you need to click that indented DVD.

 

[Eric Noa]

Here is a picture.. I have the DVD selected... which is IDVDR and its asking me to select an image to burned

 

[DoFoT9]

Here is a picture.. I have the DVD selected... which is IDVDR and its asking me to select an image to burned

thats annoying, thanks for the picture

what you will have to do is click "New Image" from the menu to create the image - then once that is done you can click "Burn" and then navigate to the image you just made.


p.s. i may or may not have made a mistake about the process

 

[Eric Noa]

Thanks.. What should I put for the image format nd Encryption?

 

[DoFoT9]

Thanks.. What should I put for the image format nd Encryption?

the DVD master selection will be fine (i cant exactly recall what it says) - or even "read/write disk image". it wont make any different

do not worry about any encryption, just select none for that.

goodluck!

 

[Eric Noa]

thank you

 

[DoFoT9]

thank you

no problems. have fun

 

[Eric Noa]

is there any other way of doing this? because for some reason is not letting me do it with disk utility

 

[slpdLoad]

I like Burn: http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html

 

[Eric Noa]

thanks I'll give it a try

 

[DoFoT9]

is there any other way of doing this? because for some reason is not letting me do it with disk utility

thats stupid. i wonder why it isnt working. works every time for me.

any errors or anything?

I like Burn: http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html

yea i guess burn will work. worth a shot.