Burning DVDs with iBook

mclaugd1mclaugd1
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
Is it possible to burn DVDs with a 3rd party app and a Firewire DVD burner? Apple's iDVD 2 app won't run on anything without a G4 (<a href="http://www.apple.com/idvd/faq.html"; target="_blank">Apple's iDVD FAQ</a>). I assume this is for performance reasons, but surely a 700 G3 can handle this?



Its too bad iDVD won't run on an iBook.



Oops. I meant "Is it possible to burn DVDs with a 3rd party app and a Firewire DVD burner ON A NEW iBOOK?"



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Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    I'm sure it's possible. It would be pretty slow, but possible.
  • Reply 2 of 3
    dmgeistdmgeist Posts: 153member
    Roxio's Toast Titanium 5 will burn to dvd. Its accepts most external

    burners, make sure you get the update from apple!

    <a href="http://www.roxio.com"; target="_blank">www.roxio.com</a>
  • Reply 3 of 3
    frawgzfrawgz Posts: 547member
    [quote]Originally posted by mclaugd1:

    <strong>Apple's iDVD 2 app won't run on anything without a G4 (<a href="http://www.apple.com/idvd/faq.html"; target="_blank">Apple's iDVD FAQ</a>). I assume this is for performance reasons, but surely a 700 G3 can handle this?

    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    iDVD 2 won't run on a G3 because its MPEG-2 encoding depends on the AltiVec unit, which the G3 lacks. Without this, it would take forever to encode your videos to MPEG-2. (Just regurgitating Jobs' pre-iDVD speech.)
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