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foreverandalway

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Dec 14, 2010
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I've been trying to burn some movies that I have on my computer, to DVD so they'll play in any DVD player. I don't know what format plays in every DVD player so I wanna be able to use a program that does everything for me. I've used DVD flick on a PC. You basically just upload the movie, put a DVD in and it converts it and put it on a DVD all for you. But I can't find something like that for Mac that's free.

I did some research online and found out that iDVD was easiest. I was looking for a free program to use.

So I use the 1 step thing in iDVD. I find the movie I wanna put on DVD and it starts encoding and whatever else it does.

So it says there's 1 minute left and it ejects the DVD. it keeps saying there's 1 minute left.

I put it back in to see if the DVD actually works and nothing comes up until I cancel the encoding or whatever. When I cancel it something comes up saying I've inserted a blank DVD.

Why is this happening/how can I fix it?

Is there an easier free way to burn to a DVD?
 
Which Mac and OS are you using? What are the formats of the videos that you are trying to burn?

Burn is another free alternative:
http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html

I'm using Mac OSX 10.5.8 and I have a Macbook Pro.

I'll try burn. I hate having to wait until I visit home to burn DVD's. I've been using DVD Flick on my parents computer but it's not Mac compatible.

How do I get burn to convert my videos files into the right file to play in any DVD player?
 
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