[GoDucks]

I recently purchased a 15 Inch Powerbook with Superdrive. This is a stock config with 512 Megs of RAM and iDVD 2. I recently burned my first DVD. Nothing fancy - just a collection of 4-5 minute videos made with iMovie. I burned 3 copies of the DVD and was disappointed that all of the DVD's have the same problems. The DVD freezes at several points and some of the menu buttons don't work - instead of the video playing when you hit the button, the DVD just freezes. The fact that these problems have happened on 3 DVD's at the same place concerns me. I have verified the errors on 2 DVD players and the DVD Player in the laptop.

I should also say that these were Apple brand DVD's - the older ones as opped to the ones that are listed as suitable for the newer, faster DVD burners.

Any suggestions - is this likely to be hardware or software related? I was hoping to have these DVD's ready for a trip this weekend to see family but that's not looking like it's going to happen.

[Axo1ot1]

Try iDVD 3?

[k_munic]

have read somewhere else:

while your are editing your project in iDVD, the prg starts to render the files (you can see the blue bars grow under status).

now, when you tell iDVD "brun dvd" WHILE this redenring is still in progress, some users report problems with the finished dvds.

so, to stop that, it is recommended, to wait, until the progress bars under status tells you "finished" and JUST THEN hit the burn button.

no, that is not apple standard, that is not user friendly - but some people swear on it..........

give it a try

[TheBum]

Originally posted by k_munic:
have read somewhere else:

while your are editing your project in iDVD, the prg starts to render the files (you can see the blue bars grow under status).

now, when you tell iDVD "brun dvd" WHILE this redenring is still in progress, some users report problems with the finished dvds.

so, to stop that, it is recommended, to wait, until the progress bars under status tells you "finished" and JUST THEN hit the burn button.

no, that is not apple standard, that is not user friendly - but some people swear on it..........

give it a try

I think iDVD 2.1 added AppleScript support, so if you want to do something else while it's encoding, you may be able to use a little freeware app I wrote called ayeDVD Batcher.

It's intended to coordinate encoding of multiple projects, but it'll work just fine with a single project (at least in iDVD3) and will pop up a dialog box to let you know when encoding completes -- something iDVD doesn't do. That way, you'll be able to make the most of your time. It's a very small download (22k), so if it doesn't work with iDVD2, you're not out much.