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Eug Wanker · 02:09 PM

It was already posted in this forum in this thread, but I suspect the ambiguous title kept some people from bothering to read the thread. Hopefully, the mods won't mind that I've posted this again with a clearer title (instead of just bumping the other thread):

Download the .sit archive from here and place the two files in the archive (but not the archive directory) in your home directory. (Open the Finder - The home directory is the one with your user name in the left column of the Finder.)

Note: THIS DOES NOT DIRECTLY MODIFY IDVD IN ANY WAY.

However, these files turn on an Easter Egg within iDVD. When you CTRL-click on the burn button in iDVD it will give you a menu listing your DVD-R drives, including external DVD-R drives, to which you can burn. It will also give you the option to save to .dmg.

ThisGuy · Mar 11, 2004, 02:18 PM

worked for me last night. does this work for 3rd party DVD burners that are installed internally?

Eug Wanker · Mar 12, 2004, 10:58 AM

I have to wonder where these files came from... It seems Apple is definitely being more liberal at supporting machines which aren't endowed with SuperDrives. First they allowed iDVD to work with machines without SuperDrives, and now suddenly the activating files to allow burning .dmgs and use of external burners appears out of nowhere on the net, requiring no patching of iDVD.

I hope that Apple maintains this functionality with subsequent releases of iDVD. Personally, I think this should be standard with iDVD. They can limit the number of external drives supported to make updates easier, but they should still specific external drives, like they do with DVD Studio Pro. Plus standard .dmg support should be a no brainer, since it requires no non-Apple hardware.

BTW, I'll post a screengrab when I get home (a couple of days from now).

RogueJay · Mar 14, 2004, 03:30 PM

Has anyone tries this with the latest iDVD update 4.0.1?

sandsl · Mar 14, 2004, 05:03 PM

Yes and it works with the latest version of iDVD.

Moonray · Mar 14, 2004, 05:52 PM

Originally posted by ThisGuy:
worked for me last night. does this work for 3rd party DVD burners that are installed internally?

Does it? Did anyone try yet?

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Eug Wanker · Mar 14, 2004, 07:44 PM

OwlBoy · Mar 14, 2004, 07:49 PM

Erm, I know this might be the wrong place to ask this. But is there a good priced Firewire DVD burner for the mac?

I am not blessed with a Super drive in either of the macs I have. So yeah, firewire or an inexpensive internal and inexpensive firewire enclosure.

-Owl

alex_kac · Mar 14, 2004, 08:25 PM

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
I have to wonder where these files came from... It seems Apple is definitely being more liberal at supporting machines which aren't endowed with SuperDrives. First they allowed iDVD to work with machines without SuperDrives, and now suddenly the activating files to allow burning .dmgs and use of external burners appears out of nowhere on the net, requiring no patching of iDVD.

I hope that Apple maintains this functionality with subsequent releases of iDVD. Personally, I think this should be standard with iDVD. They can limit the number of external drives supported to make updates easier, but they should still specific external drives, like they do with DVD Studio Pro. Plus standard .dmg support should be a no brainer, since it requires no non-Apple hardware.

BTW, I'll post a screengrab when I get home (a couple of days from now).

As has been said before, its all about licensing. Apple has to pay $$$ to license the MPEG2 and such. Apple pays a lot less when it restricts it to Apple ROMed DVD-R drives, whereas a program like DVD Studio Pro includes a more liberal license.

The Jackalope · 08:28 AM

Originally posted by OwlBoy:
Erm, I know this might be the wrong place to ask this. But is there a good priced Firewire DVD burner for the mac?

I am not blessed with a Super drive in either of the macs I have. So yeah, firewire or an inexpensive internal and inexpensive firewire enclosure.

-Owl

I'd suggest this NEC 8x model, then getting this enclosure, putting them together and then go to this site, open the "Optical" drives menu, and downloading the driver that is called "LaCie DVD FireWire drives profile for Mac OS X 10.3.2". Works perfectly for me.

Well this turn of events will definitely get me to buy iLife then. Thanks for putting this up!

mishap · Mar 15, 2004, 09:56 PM

i Just picked up an external LaCie 8x today at the Apple store. Now i'm twice as happy that i stumbled upon this thread

Bill Kinkle · Mar 16, 2004, 10:02 PM

I am a little confused as to where to place these files. I am using OSX 10.2.8. Thanks.

mishap · Mar 16, 2004, 11:29 PM

Originally posted by Bill Kinkle:
I am a little confused as to where to place these files. I am using OSX 10.2.8. Thanks.

Place the two files directly in your home directory.

Eug Wanker · Mar 17, 2004, 01:32 PM

BTW, even if iDVD doesn't natively support your external DVD-R burner with this work around, you could always save the DVD as a .dmg file and then burn it with Toast. (I've found that Toast supports many more drives than Apple's software does.)

King Bob On The Cob · Mar 17, 2004, 06:35 PM

Or you could always take that drive out of the enclosure and put in your Mac like I did

I got a DRU-530A cracked open my eMac (not literally cracked), put the new drive in, turned on my computer, dropped in the DRsupport file (I changed the 510A online slightly to support the drive, no restart needed) and I could use the burn feature just like as if it was my previous (and broken) Pioneer 104A [AKA SuperDrive] but with 8x8x? DVD+/-RW burning and 40x24x? CD-RW burning. It's really nice for authoring DVDs. As an added bonus it reads everything really fast.

asmack · Mar 18, 2004, 01:44 AM

Awesome! I just tried burning the completed tutorial that came with iDVD 3 and it burned flawlessly onto a DVD-RW on my external LaCie d2 DVD+/-RW. The resulting DVD-RW played flawlessly on my standalone Panasonic DVD player. Now I don't have to use Toast 6 or CaptyDVD anymore. Maybe now I will buy iLife '04!

Buck_W · Apr 9, 2004, 10:42 PM

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
BTW, even if iDVD doesn't natively support your external DVD-R burner with this work around, you could always save the DVD as a .dmg file and then burn it with Toast. (I've found that Toast supports many more drives than Apple's software does.)

How do you save your iDVD project as a .dmg file? I've been playing around with iDVD and cannot figure it out. Thanks

sandsl · Apr 10, 2004, 06:35 AM

Originally posted by Buck_W:
How do you save your iDVD project as a .dmg file? I've been playing around with iDVD and cannot figure it out. Thanks

By reading the post

:
Download the .sit archive from here and place the two files in the archive (but not the archive directory) in your home directory. (Open the Finder - The home directory is the one with your user name in the left column of the Finder.)

When you CTRL-click on the burn button in iDVD it will give you a menu listing your DVD-R drives, including external DVD-R drives, to which you can burn. It will also give you the option to save to .dmg.

CambAngst · Apr 10, 2004, 07:33 AM

On a different but somewhat related topic, is there a hack for iDVD that will allow you to control the regional encoding of the discs it produces?

Eug Wanker · Apr 10, 2004, 08:00 AM

Originally posted by CambAngst:
On a different but somewhat related topic, is there a hack for iDVD that will allow you to control the regional encoding of the discs it produces?

iDVD makes region free discs.

cnelson87 · Apr 12, 2004, 11:09 AM

I'm a bit confused about where to put these files. Mishap makes sense but Sandsl does not (archive? archive directory???) so I'll put them in my home directory and cross my fingers.

Originally posted by mishap:
Place the two files directly in your home directory.

Originally posted by sandsl:
... and place the two files in the archive (but not the archive directory) in your home directory. (Open the Finder - The home directory is the one with your user name in the left column of the Finder.)

sandsl · Apr 12, 2004, 02:12 PM

Originally posted by cnelson87:
I'm a bit confused about where to put these files. Mishap makes sense but Sandsl does not (archive? archive directory???) so I'll put them in my home directory and cross my fingers.

I'm sorry your having difficulties understanding the original post by Eug Wanker - it could have been phrased better, I was simply quoting it.

Very simple instructions for those not yet following, where the reader is below 15 years of age, or where english is their 4th language

1. Download this file.
2. This will download a file called HPfurz.sit, which will need to be unstuffed. ("The archive")
3. Open the resulting folder, "HPfurz Folder".
4. Drag the two files contained in that folder, "Hurz" and "Pfurz" to your home directory. (Your home directory is the folder with the house icon, found within your hard drive, in the users folder).
5. Launch iDVD4, create or open your project and control-click on the burn button. Then select your external burner, or save as a disk image.

ism · Apr 14, 2004, 06:53 AM

Interestingly these files allow idvd2 to launch on my imac g3, previously it would just moan about hardware. I can't do anything when it has launched, perhaps because it was installed through pacifist? Perhaps still because of hardware? (no g4, but I can't remember if this was a requirement in idvd2?)

mishap · Apr 14, 2004, 07:14 AM

Originally posted by ism:
Interestingly these files allow idvd2 to launch on my imac g3, previously it would just moan about hardware. I can't do anything when it has launched, perhaps because it was installed through pacifist? Perhaps still because of hardware? (no g4, but I can't remember if this was a requirement in idvd2?)

hmmm... interesting.

Eug Wanker · Apr 15, 2004, 12:05 PM

Originally posted by ism:
Interestingly these files allow idvd2 to launch on my imac g3, previously it would just moan about hardware. I can't do anything when it has launched, perhaps because it was installed through pacifist? Perhaps still because of hardware? (no g4, but I can't remember if this was a requirement in idvd2?)

I wonder what would happen if you booted off a hard drive with a properly installed iDVD (ie. Firewire target mode of a G4's hard drive). Hmmm...

direktor · Apr 15, 2004, 12:09 PM

Originally posted by CambAngst:
On a different but somewhat related topic, is there a hack for iDVD that will allow you to control the regional encoding of the discs it produces?

The spec for DVD-R General does not include region codes.

In other words...it's not possible to restrict a DVD-R to a certain region.

Same goes for CSS and Macrovision.