On Sep 9, 2003, at 4:28 PM, JeffH wrote:
I tested a Toshiba SD-R6012 DVD-R inside a Pismo optical caddy and it
worked with DVD Studio Pro and Toast, but not with iDVD. I don't know
what iDVD looks for to decide if a Mac + DVD-writer is supported or not.
I don't think any Apple SuperDrives will write to a +R format, they are all -R. My iMac doesn't even see a +R disc correctly.
He wasn't mentioning DVD+R with that comment... so I am not sure what the point of that was... *raises eyebrow*
Another question is, why do we want to burn DVD's on a Pismo/Lombard? FWIW, I just burned a Video CD in Toast - for 38 minutes of video, my TiBook 500 took 4:20 to prep the file. That's hours. I'd think a G3 will be somewhat slower....
If I were crazy enough to buy a DVD burner for a laptop, I would use it for data discs, not video.
Plus, try something other than Toast for prepping Video Discs... It uses QT for the MPEG-1 encoding which is really slow and gives awful quality compared to a semi-tuned ffmpegx encode. I do most of my encodes on a G4/400 upgraded 8600 to get 30+ minutes of video encoded into MPEG-4, MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 in under 2 hours.
Regards, Adam Thayer
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