iDVD 4.0.1

[johnnyjibbs]

Yep, as been said, look for BBdemux, a little freeware app that separates audio and video for mpeg files. Then you can get them into a format that iDVD understands.

I'm going to update this update but I haven't yet burnt a DVD in iDVD4 - had no problems in version 3 but I'll give this a go anyway.

 

[Sol]

iDVD 4 buggy all-right

iDVD 4 had this habit of stopping the render of MPEG2 video after a few minutes. The application would just stop rendering and I had to re-import the video files to begin the process again. Has anyone else experienced this problem and if so has the latest update made any difference?

 

[lord_flash]

Progress chart?

(Hmm.. it's been a while since I posted, and now there are Word for Windows 2000 icons at the top of the page... )

Anyway, I burned a few discs with iDVD 3 on my lovely (blotches aside) PowerBook and it ruined nearly a third of them. Not an especially good ratio. Then I read with horror about iDVD 4 after I'd already installed it, but had no call to use it until last night (I've not done the update yet).

It worked fine, but what happeend to the progress bar? We seem to have gone back to the dark ages? My MOBILE PHONE has a progress meter for most operations. And, let's be fair, in the last stage of the burning it can't exactly be difficult to work out how much is burned and how much is still to do.

Seriously, this is shockingly poor. Now, folks, I am a switcher. I'm very pleased with my new Mac, but I switched because I was looking for things to be better than my PC. I'm not an evangalist, and normally i hate it when the nutters in here come up with pages of spurious justifications for something they know, in their heart of hearts, is a bit of a cop out. But, on this occasion, I'm all ears. Go on - tell me why I've sacraficed a useful feature to get a moving stripey line for an operation of a broadly predectiable duration? It was there in version 3.

 

[MattG]

Hopefully this resolves the problem I was having with not being able to burn a full 2-hour DVD without it crashing.

 

[cubist]

Hopefully this resolves the problem I was having with not being able to burn a full 2-hour DVD without it crashing.

I think it will! My first DVD was only 12 minutes, and it crashed just like yours did. Updated to 4.0.1, and it burned successfully.

 

[veedubdrew]

I don't know about your Macs, but on mine the progress bar did absolutely nothing for me. It would commonly lock up or show the exact same remaining time all the way through the burn process. When I first switched I "force quit" iDVD several times before realizing the progress bar wasn't indicating that the program froze, but only that the progress bar itself sucked. This ruined quite a few DVDs before I finally just let it sit for half a day and do its thing and my iMac spit out a perfectly good DVD. I was *very* happy to see the progress bar removed from iDVD 3 so that I'm not constantly wondering if iDVD bit the dust (which it never has on my machines).

-Drew

(Hmm.. it's been a while since I posted, and now there are Word for Windows 2000 icons at the top of the page... )

Anyway, I burned a few discs with iDVD 3 on my lovely (blotches aside) PowerBook and it ruined nearly a third of them. Not an especially good ratio. Then I read with horror about iDVD 4 after I'd already installed it, but had no call to use it until last night (I've not done the update yet).

It worked fine, but what happeend to the progress bar? We seem to have gone back to the dark ages? My MOBILE PHONE has a progress meter for most operations. And, let's be fair, in the last stage of the burning it can't exactly be difficult to work out how much is burned and how much is still to do.

Seriously, this is shockingly poor. Now, folks, I am a switcher. I'm very pleased with my new Mac, but I switched because I was looking for things to be better than my PC. I'm not an evangalist, and normally i hate it when the nutters in here come up with pages of spurious justifications for something they know, in their heart of hearts, is a bit of a cop out. But, on this occasion, I'm all ears. Go on - tell me why I've sacraficed a useful feature to get a moving stripey line for an operation of a broadly predectiable duration? It was there in version 3.

 

[rjeffreyproctor]

If you have DVDSP 2.0 take the time to learn, it's worth it and is quite simple to use. If you have 1.5, upgrade it!

DITTO!

 

[lord_flash]

I don't know about your Macs, but on mine the progress bar did absolutely nothing for me. It would commonly lock up or show the exact same remaining time all the way through the burn process. When I first switched I "force quit" iDVD several times before realizing the progress bar wasn't indicating that the program froze, but only that the progress bar itself sucked. This ruined quite a few DVDs before I finally just let it sit for half a day and do its thing and my iMac spit out a perfectly good DVD. I was *very* happy to see the progress bar removed from iDVD 3 so that I'm not constantly wondering if iDVD bit the dust (which it never has on my machines).

Firstly, how do you know it was the progress meter, and not some other dodgy programming, that caused your Mac to destroy an expensive DVD, and secondly, are you arguing that, just because it isn't always accurate, it's better to have NO IDEA how long your computer will be tied up, rather than an estimate?

That is either madness, or one of those stupid justifications for Apple's incompetence that I don't want to hear. If it doesn't work, fix it, don't get rid of it.

Why defend them? Why? Deep down you must know that it would be better if they got it working, yet you're happy to say 'I'm glad they got rid of it'. What else would you let Apple get away with if they simply couldn't be bothered to do it?