How to burn an mp4 movie to dvd?

[michael31986]

I want to know what program i can use to burn an mp4 video to a blank dvd so it plays on my dvd player?

thanks guys!

 

[chabig]

Toast will do it. But you should know that burning DVDs can take hours. It would be much easier for you to connect your Mac to the TV with an HDMI cable, or get an AppleTV and stream to it.

 

[michael31986]

i should clarify. something free?

I thought iTunes would burn dvd

 

[chabig]

There is nothing free for that. I believe the encoding technology to burn DVDs has to be licensed.

 

[Dave Braine]

But you should know that burning DVDs can take hours.

Well...that depends on the length of your movie. Using standard definition video, I find that it takes about minute for minute.

I thought iTunes would burn dvd

No, just cds AFAIK.

There is nothing free for that.

Yes there is. Burn is a favourite:
http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html
Make sure that you choose to make a Video DVD, and you will have to accept the option for Burn to convert you mp4 to mpeg, which is what dvds require.

A search for DVD creator in the App Store will bring up a few, but they all basically do the same job in the same way with just a different GUI.