On Aug 22, 2004, at 12:15 PM, Ken wrote:
My Reply follows quote. On 22/08/2004 11:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
--------Hi,
Don't know whether this has been asked before or not, but I came across
a DVD R burner that is USB 2.0 and was wondering if it would work with
my clamshell ibook 300. The specs of it says it will work with Mac OS 9
and it includes BHA B's Recorder Gold v1.72 , but says it does not
include DVD authoring software for the Mac. So what would I use to burn
DVD's?
I am trying to decide whether to get the usb one or the firewire one. I
was just hoping it will work with my Clamshell, so that is why I would
consider the usb.
thanks, Pam
The Clamshell series of iBooks don't do USB 2, only 1. Therefore, you
will need an application that can drive the burner under USB 1. Probably
Toast 5 or so. Then you need to make sure that the Version of Toast
has a "driver" for that burner.
Ken
Actually, it doesn't matter. USB 2 is backwards compatible with USB 1 so the drive will look the same to the iBook as it would to a USB 2 capable machine. The difference is that the speed you would get from the burner is about 12Mbps or roughly 1.4MB/sec which is not enough for burning DVDs at all.
Also there is confusion in the original question about burning at all. B's recorder BURNS the DVDs, while you need something like iDVD to AUTHOR a DVD movie. Authoring is taking video clips and preparing them into a format for burning as a DVD movie. If you are just going to be burning data onto a DVD, or copying other discs, then you don't need to author a DVD, and B's recorder will work.
So, my recommendation is to avoid USB DVD burners as you will never create a usable disc at 1.4MB/sec (DVD 1x is somewhere around 4-5MB/sec, if I recall correctly). Firewire is really your only option if you have a firewire port on the iBook.
Regards, Adam Thayer
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