DVD burner jerking me around

When I burn home movies with my iMac - either through iDVD or Toast - for some reason in the last couple days the results are awful. The playback DVD jerks movement consistently, not randomly. Almost like we are looking at the action with every other frame. And it plays back that way on any DVD player I use to show it.
I have a MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-85J
When I burn the same movie on my MacBook all is well. It appears to be just the DVD burner. To my knowledge I have done no changes in the last week. (It worked great last week. In fact, to check, I reburned a movie from last week which was perfect then, only to find that now it jerky.)
Any ideas before I call apple? Thanks!

Hmmm, at 6 months I think you have the record for the longest burn time ever...
Seriously though, welcome to the forums. I hope you will receive better advice here than you got from "one of the people" you encountered in your computer search. Both CDs and DVDs go in the same way - label side "up."
John

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PSE8: unable to complete DVD burn. Stops around 95% each time. [was:Queston:]

I have adobe Premier Elements 8. I have updated with any updates. I compiled a bunch of home videos and I wanted to burn them on a DVD for Christmas. Once I compiled everything and got audio all set and disc menus the works. I went to the share tab and selected the burn to dvd, I selected my settings and hit burn it took about 5 hours for the DVD to burn to the disc and about at 95% complete a message came up stating that it was not able to burn. I have wasted about ten DVD's trying to get them burned. I have even saved the file for PC format to watch and burn the movie on another program and that save took about ten hours. I am not sure if it is the program or the computer. It is really frustrating. Any help would be appreciated.

jrkkke
Are you doing the burn to with "Fit Content To Available Space" with check mark?
Assuming that you do, immediately before you hit Burn, what does the Quality area of the burn dialog show for Space Required and Bitrate?
And, the usual drill for those working with Premiere Elements 8...
a. do you have the automatic background rendering and autoanalyzer features turned off?
b. are you working from the 8.0.1 Update version of the program?
c. do you have the latest version of QuickTime installed on your computer?
d. are you running the program as Run As Administrator or from a User Account with Administrative Privileges?
Right now a and b seem more relevant than c and d to what you are reporting, but I include them just in case.
Do you have the equipment to go Blu-ray?
ATR

DVD Burning takes so long, first time around - why?

Hi guys,
I wonder if anyone can help with a query I have please?
I use an external DVD burner to burn DVD's for a customer each day (http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MRF82SD22/).
The interface I'm using on this particular burner, is the FW800 interface, and burn times for the same job, are typically around 7minutes per session.
However, (and here's the issue) - first thing every morning, or after a long period of inactivity, a burn will take as long a 18 minutes, then come back to the 7 minute burn time over 3 or 4 burns. If I use it constantly, the burn times sit around 7 minutes all day long . . . . but never first time!
(I noticed too, that the DVD takes a while to mount on the Desktop at times.)
This happens constantly, and I've been taking note of this phenomenon for over 3 months.
iMac is about a 18 months old (2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo/2GB Ram)
OS is 10.6.8 Snow Leopard
DVD's are DVD-R
Filetypes being burned are always .MPG.
If anyone can explain to me why this may be happening, I'd be very grateful.
Thanks in advance.

No replies so I would assume no one has or noticed. The only thing I thought of, but not sure it applies to your case (which is why I didn't reply but I mention it now anyhow) is perhaps a disk image is created the first time before burning it to the dvd and then reused for additional copies. The fact that you said you do this throughout the day made me think you couldn't be burning the same thing each time so new disk images would have to be created for those new times which throws out that disk image theory.

How can I work around a DVD burning problem

Steve Grisetti: How can I work around a DVD burning problem?
Question: Does PSE and PE -7 solve this problem or make any difference at all?
Joanna

This article, from the FAQ list at the top of this forum, is valid for all versions, since it may be a problem for any.
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b5f52c
The problem is not so much with Premiere Elements as it is with challenges faces in the operating system registry. Basically, DVD burner programs, like Nero, which are installed on your computer at the factory, refuse to share access to the DVD burner with other programs.

Is there any work-around in Mavericks for DVD burning issue's

Ever since I installed the updated OX I get errors and problems burning disc's ( with my external Sony and OWC DVD burner's. Sometime's it freezes in the middle of burning and other times it hangs by the verification process. Even using Apple's own internal burner give's me these issue's. Even aborting the burn after it hangs is problematic. I usually have to turn off the burner and then on again and eject the disc . I use the latest version of Toast but have tried with Mac's own burning option. It makes no difference, both ways aren't working for me. In Bootcamp while trying to burn (on PC) side. The computer keeps crashing. I have had this experiance on my iMac and Mac Book Pro both early 2011.

Hi Pavan,
I am assuming you want to persist some intermediate values from a process XSLT invocation to another process XSLT invocation in BPEL.
An approach to persist variables in XSLT could be to persist them the target variable itself (in an optional section):
<li>This can be achieved by having an additional root element and mandatory element (say, data), having the actual schema and an optional complex type element (say, parameters, which would in turn consist of 2 elements name and value and maybe, if needed, type) attached to both the source and target schemas.
<li>whatever variable you would want to persist, you can append it in the XSLT to the target variable,as children of parameters node.
<li>Whenever, you want to invoke a partner link, you can have an assignment before invoking, which would assign the actual schema data (from element data) to the input variable of the invoke.
As there is no inbuilt solution for this, things could get messy.
Regards,
Shanmu.
Edited by: sthiagar on Feb 15, 2010 5:31 PM

My DVD burning problems solved....here's what I did.

Like some of you, I was having MAJOR problems burning DVDs. My initial setup was a dual 2.0 ghz G5 purchased in July of last year, so it came with a 8x burner and iLife '04 (iMovie 4.0.1 and iDVD 4.0.1). Seeing as how I have 1.5gigs RAM and a fairly new system running 10.4.3, I didn't think I was going to have any problems burning DVDs....
HA.
Nothing worked right......a 1-hour long project burned for more than 8 hours without finishing, or iDVD would quit for no reason, or the burn would fail. I noticed that Terminal said that during these burns it was only burning at 4x even though 47x was requested. Chapters were not working. Applecare was not helpful, only suggesting that I try to burn under a new user, and then call them back. That didn't work either.
I probably took the lazy man's way out, but I decided this waste of time was unacceptable. I went out and purchased a 16x SuperDrive Pioneer DVR-110D replacement from MCE for $92, and upgraded to iLife '05 for another $79. I installed the drive myself (VERY easy with the included instructions), and tried the new setup under a newly created user.....
PERFECT burning every time. Not only that, but Terminal showed a requested burn speed of 16x and a burn speed of 16x. A two-hour project is now burning in less than 8 minutes. Multiplexing still takes time, but it's less than 1 hour!
On an interesting side note: when I try to burn under my regular user name, I STILL get an burning error (says image not complete, or incomplete....something like that). But under the user name created just for burning I have no problems. The chapter problem was solved when I stopped putting a chapter marker at the very beginning of my iMovie projects, since iDVD automatically puts one in called "Beginning," which you can change to anything you want.
Maybe this will help others.....
Dual 2Ghz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3) 1.5 gigs RAM, iMovie 5.0.1, iDVD 5.0.1

it was only burning at 4x even though 47x was requested.
That's a issue discussed in the past.
It turns out that 8X DVD burning means about 47X CD burning - you were requesting 8X DVD but only got 4X DVD burning.
I haven't seen it discussed anymore so maybe Apple got around to eliminating that 'quirk' in terminology.
I suspect some of the early 8x DVD burners didn't perform as advertised. I'm glad your new 16X burner is working for you.

DVD burn error - SOLVED!

I recently had errors when burning DVDs and noticed many people on this forum shared the exact same problem, but no solutions were posted. However, I've recently solved it, and decided to make a whole new thread so that it is easier for people to find.
First of all, the error is this: Since owning my laptop I've done 1 or 2 successful DVD burns, but then suddenly it wouldn't do it anymore. It would begin but then fail, somtimes at around 42%, other times before it got to 1%. and this happened no matter what software was used. I tried Finder and Toast 8. The error codes output from Toast are as follows:
The drive reported an error:
Sense Key = HARDWARE ERROR
Sense Code = 0x03, 0x01
http://www.bilious.org/filez/forums/Apple/Drive%20Error%2001a.png
Followed by:
Sense Key = ILLEGAL REQUEST
Sense Code = 0x30, 0x05
CANNOT WRITE MEDIUM - INCOMPATIBLE FORMAT
http://www.bilious.org/filez/forums/Apple/Drive%20Error%2001b.png
(Thankyou to user: billious, for the images)
The error code you get from Finder is 0x80020022.
Now, the information about my system and my drive are as follows:
Apple MacBook (Intel Core Duo, 2Ghz) in white
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857:
Firmware Revision: HBE4
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: No
Now, I know a lot of people here have said "Use highest quality DVDs, your cheap ones are bound to fail!" but in actual fact, it doesn't matter. People all across this forum have said that they've used the most expensive brand DVDs on the market, right down to the cheapest, and it's failed on all of them. Even the Apple brand ones. Here are a just a few that people have tried: TYG03 (Taiyo Yuden 1-12x DVD-R), TTH02 (TDK 1-16x DVD-R) and TDK003 (TDK 1-16x DVD+R). Taiyo Yuden are widely thought of as the highest quality on the market.
Also, I know people on this forum have said "Check the Mac is on a flat surface" and "Check the Mac is at a comfortable temperature". These may be factors, but it's very unlikely and are certainly not how I resolved the issue.
I took mine to my local Apple store and told them about the issue and they said they'd test it and if they found a fault, do whatever was needed. They tested and sure enough, it wouldn't burn so they decided to replace the DVD drive. I tried to tell them that loads of people on this forum said that doing that hadn't helped, but they weren't going to take our word for it, and so they replaced the drive. 2 days later I got a call to say they'd done it but it hadn't resolved the issue (fortunately they'd re-tested it and not just told me to come and collect it!) and so they decided to replace the motherboard. 2 days later they called to say the work was done and it was burning fine, and I can confirm that it now burns full DVDs successfully.
So there it is, a motherboard fault. I dont know why, perhaps a manufacturing error. Anyways, so if you're having this problem, go tell Apple to replace your motherboard (I believe you can send your laptop to them if there isn't a store near you).
Oh, and if you do this and it works (or if it doesn't) please post it here, as it will help keep this solution on the front page of the forum.

Hi Vai,
I'm quite pleased to read your post, I'll even forgive the linking to my error messages because the news is that good.
Any information whatsoever as to the actual repairs undertaken would be very much appreciated, as I am interested in twisting Apple Australia's arm over this issue - my DVD drive may as well not be there. Any information from the service receipt, or if your could contact the service staff for a specific description of the error and service method, I'd very much appreciate it.
Congrats on the repair, and now I've got five months to fight the machine that is Apple to see that my drive actually works.
Thanks.

Dvd burned in premiere pro cc does not fill the screen. Desire a 4:3 aspect ratio

I am using premiere pro cc. I burned a dvd several times,trying different presets. On each occasion the dvd never fills the screen. It does not lool like letterbox ( 16 x 9 ). There is space all around the picture / video. Need assistance fast,project is already late.Thanks in advance.
Theo Smith

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DVD burner (UJ-825) does not recognize blank media - alignment error

Hello,
when inserting (tried several) blank DVD into my iMac DVD burner, it spits it out after a few seconds ...
error message in the logs
Jul 4 04:43:46 Bazounga kernel[0]: disk2: alignment error.
is there anyway I could re-calibrate the head of the DVD burner or is could the problem be coming from somewhere else.
N.B.: home burned DVDs cannot be read anymore (same behaviour)
When inserting a blank CD it recognises it but trying to burn a "burnable folder" is fails with error message 0x8002006E)
Finder: Write (10), block: 4294967146, count: 32 -> 3/0C/00 Medium Error, Write error
Finder: Burn failed, Wed Jul 4 05:33:38 2007
Finder: Burn sense: 3/0C/00 Medium Error, Write error
Finder: Burn error: 0x8002006E La gravure a √©chou√© √† cause d'une erreur d'√©criture sur le m√
same kind of error appeared previously with DVD's
But commercial CD's and DVD can be read after some "hesitation noise"
Is my burner dead ?

Normally this error message is caused by incorrect Format or some of the cheaper incompatible Brands of Media. I suggest you use this.
http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm
I also suggest you use DVD-R Media.
it is the most recognized all around.
Be sure when you buy that your optical drive will burn at the speed it was designed to use.
Many of the higher speed media like 16X will not work on older computers.
They will give you error messages
Here is another good link that explains it.
http://www.videohelp.com/dvd
I suggest you find Maxell 16X DVD-R media in the individual Jewel Cases and read the packaging and you will see that it will burn at 1X,2X,4X,8X,and 16X this media will work with just about anything in the way of computers.
Don

Need Video Capture Card and DVD Burner Quick!

Here's my situation. I've created some movie titles in iMovie and have no way to get them from my Macintosh to my DVD/VCR to incorporate them in a tape I'm making. I need it like NOW as a lot of people are waiting for copies of the tape!
For some time I've wanted a device called a video capture card. It has the ability to play videos on your computer and you can print out images from them. What I want to do is make DVDs of my VHS home movies. I did learn you can't just walk into any local store and buy such a device; it must be ordered.
Desperation is a great motivator and finally (duh) I decided to look at a site specializing in Macintosh products, instead of studying every capture card online. Surprisingly, they offer three models: one cheap ($50-some), one at twice the price of the first, and a third at ten times the price of the second! That's quite a jump! Here's the middle one, which they claim is the best on the planet: http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail~dpno~197329.asp
So, as I understand this, I somehow connect this device to my computer (Power Mac G4), hook a VCR to it, and then I can play videotapes on my computer. If I'm in a desperate hurry to burn DVDs I suppose my friend's DVD player will also connect to this device, or am I wrong in this?
Even if I am right (that a DVD player/burner will connect to this) I still don't see how that gives ME a DVD burner with which to transfer my videos to DVD! My combo player will make videos from DVDs but not the other way around! So do I have to run out and buy a DVD burner, and should it be any special kind since it will be used with a device connected to a Macintosh? I need this ASAP so thanks for any advice, or clarification to my understanding of how this process works!

Cornelia,
Lennart's links are very good and informative. But one thing you should know is that an external DVD burner will not play a DVD - it only burns them. Since you want to view the DVD and pause at a particular scene and print it, you'll need some way to view your DVD. You also need a way to convert the iMovie project with the imported VHS footage, to a burnable format. iDVD can do that, but I noticed you have OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). If you don't have iDVD you'll need to buy it from the Apple store.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/70901/wo/u13Sbz1 DQJRc2kZnHbi1QKZybZA/1.0.19.1.0.8.25.7.11.0.3 or you can buy Roxio Toast 7, but toast is much more expensive. For Toast go to: http://www.roxio.com/
You also need a media player so you can view your final DVD. I did some quick research and found out that none of the free media players allows you to print - which is what you want to do. There are quite a few free media players available, like Nice player and Xine Player, but you need Panther or higher to use them. Because you're running OS X 10.2, the only free media player that you can use is VLC media player. To download a free VLC player go to: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ You do need QT 6.5.2. or higher. So you may need to update your QT.
You can't print a paused image, but you can take a snap shot of the still image, then print that. Snap Shot=CommandShift4. This will allow you to select the paused picture in the screen, or if you like just a portion of that paused picture. It will save on your desktop as a picture. Double click on the Picture, then print that.
Then it sounds like after you've burned the DVD with your titles, you will need to connect a VHS recorder to a DVD player and record your DVD on to VHS tape.
Good Luck,
JAM
iMac G5 2.0 GHZ 1.5 RAM, 250 internal HD, 160 ext. HD Mac OS X (10.4.1)

DVD burner wont burn...keep getting error's. please help me

So here's the situation, ever since i downloaded Audio Highjack Pro i've not been able to burn dvd's or cd's...it starts to burn and gets to about 2.3% or somewhere around there and it gives me this error....
"Burning the disc failed because communication to the disc drive failed. (Error code 0x80020022)"
This is the model of my dvd burner "HL-DT-ST DVDRW GWA4080MA" i dont know if that helps
I bought the computer just over a year ago and havent had any problems until this.
Does anyone know how to fix my problem??
Please help me. I'm a Productions manager for an extreme sports Tv show up here in Lake tahoe and i need my Dvd burner to work so i can use it in my daily work. thanks alot
Harrison

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it only gets tricky when you want bold or italic or bold and italic fonts embedded. those are different fonts and those need to be embedded seperately.

External DVD burn problem

I realize I am far behind everyone else here; but here goes.
I finally got a DVD burner for my G4 iMac (snowball) 1Gig OSX 10.4.11. iDvd v. 6.0.4; iMovie v. 6.0.3.
It's a (used) Lacie d2 8X.
I tried my hand with iMovie for the first time this Christmas using my digital camera in movie mode. Took a few minutes of the train set running around the tree.
I did pretty good with the clips in iMovie; even adding sound, titles and opening credits.
So, today I put the movie in iDvd; using the share function as instructed.
When I tried to burn the DVD; it went thru the sequence of building the DVD and then failed at the "burn" mode.
So, here are my questions -
Is there a problem burning on the external Lacie drive from iDvd?
I have DVD-R discs; is that a problem?
I tried Toast; but could not drag the iMovie into the the window (it just snapped back)?
The burner is 8X and I bought some 16x discs, is this wrong?
I hope this all makes sense and someone can help me out.
Well, trying something different to get the DVD to record.
I tried this time with Toast 6.
Got BurnPatch. Taost now recognizing the burner after unplugging it and re hooking it up.
I exported the movie as a QT file as directed in the Toast instructions. Drag/drop into the Toast window.
I am getting two error messages -
"Drive error
sense key=illegible request
sense code= 0x30, 0x05
Cannot write medium
incompatible format
and-
Couldn't setup the track for writing
last window (upon closing ) states
"this disc cannot be used because it is not recognized"
Could it be that using the 16x DVD-r discs is causing the problem? Also, they are a 'store brand'. If I need to use 8x; does anyone even carry them anymore?
Help, please
Thanks
Jay

I have an external firewire LaCie Burner and, once connected to my iMac, it does not show up in Disk Utility, but does work. It is recognized in Toast (if connected). I've used it almost exclusively without any problems. I've also tried it with Disk Utility:
Try this: connect the external burner, open Disk Utility, select a disk image (.dmg) and hit the burn button; my Disk Utility then gives me the option to burn with either the external or the Superdrive and tells me to insert a disk. But, unless I've selected an image to burn, there is no indication or icon anywhere in Disk Utility (or on the desktop) that an external burner has been connected. I've always thought that as being a bit strange, but since it does work, I haven't questioned it.
Another possibility might be that you did not install the (correct?) LaCie driver? You might want to check their website, find the latest driver appropriate for your model and Mac OS and follow their install directions. LaCie burners do need drivers installed to be recognized by the OS.

File name punctuation WILL cause MP3 and DVD burn errors – workaround?

OK, I’ve seen TONS of questions about problems burning MP3 format CDs and DVD. I’ve been having this problem for quite a while and today I just got ****** off enough to do some deep research. I seek to share my finding and suggestions for work arounds.
THE PROBLEM
iTunes can burn regular CDs since the song file name is not actually put on the CD. The CD or DVD burner work for burning audio discs and with other applications. All the burn preferences are set correctly and have been validated. But when you attempt to burn an MP3 CD or DVD (for backup, transfer or for player that play MP3 discs), iTunes may do the following:
Checking media (iTunes will ask: “You have inserted a DVD. Are you sure you want to create a Data DVD? answer yes, it’s a blank DVD disc in a working DVD burner)
Checking playlist
Burning disc… initializing
"The attempt to burn a disc failed. An unknown error occurred (xxxx).”
THE CAUSE
Many times the error is due to song, album or artist names with unacceptable punctuation in them. iTunes does not tell you why and the error message and Google searches and Apple support/discussion forum details are sketchy… but in most cases its “illegal” punctuation in the song name, artist or album. I isolated at lest the apostrophe ‘ there are probably other illegal name punctuations too.
The cause my be explained by Apple following ISO or Joliet file name specifications or file name length specifications for CD or DVD discs. But since this appears to be undocumented (to the iTunes user) there is a need to understand the restrictions to allow error free disc burning.
THE CHALLENGE
Even if the playlist name does not have punctuation, if ANY playlist song name/artist/album does, the DVD burn will fail. Removing the offending songs from the playlists results in a successful burn but hey, I WANT those other songs too!
POSSIBLE WORK AROUNDS
Changing actual song file name – even if you change the name in iTunes (Get Info, Info, change name, artist, album) the actual song file names are not updated and continue to have the punctuation error resulting in a burn failure.
It appears that the actual file name needs to be changed. This can be a challenge. If you change only the file name you need to add modified file back into iTunes and the old file link is now broken. This is a bigger problem if that song file is in multiple playlists (the old ones are broken and the new one needs to be substituted). This is a REAL problem if you have 2,800 songs with an ‘ in them (like I do).
LETS WORK TOGETHER AND SHARE RESULTS
I’ve seen many, many unanswered questions about iTunes CD and DVD burning problems that will likely be solved if we can collectively develop and document a workaround. So, here is
THE QUESTION
What is the best way to rename (or retag) MP3 song files to eliminate punctuation and update iTunes and playlists so these songs can be burned to CD or DVD without violating the undocumented illegal punctuation restriction? The work around may differ for OS X vs Windows users so help on both would be appreciated.
Thank you all in advance for your help!
Windows XP Pro

been searching myself to create my own cdg for use in universal karaoke players. Kjams appears to offer the most hope for all I want to do. although there's something new now called Aria which promises to do a bunch of stuff for 79 $. Otherwise, all that I want to do as listed by the original poster, would cost me Kjams lite, plus the burn plug in is extra, plus I'd need the kjams producer as I would be building a cdg by adding the synced lyrics to something I've removed the vocal from, on Audacity program. if I go with Kjams, those 3 softwares, it will cost me 150, while I'm so jealous all those PC karaoke singers have free software for karaoke they can download.
I've been buying my cdg discs at 1.99 a pop, but they don't have special songs I want to perform. Aria for Mac might just do it all but I don't need the "scratch" sound they are pushing. that makes me steer away from the software.
experimenting with the Imac 10.6 idvd movie quicktime might work. I made a few cdg but have not tried them in the club karaoke machine yet. I added the lyrics to tuneprompter which is a free software that lets you add and sync the lyrics to the music with the spacebar. thats fun. but it's all in experimental thing so far. I know Kjams does not let you add lyrics and sync them yourself. you are supposed to import cdg to kjams that are already available and pay for them. in this case I want to find my own special tunes. good luck to you. there's one other thing but it's expensive. buying software which turns your mac into a windows platform by partiioning it and you start up in one or the other. that's also about 100-150 software.

Rate SONY 820 UL/T DVD burner for burning iMovies-what's better?

I have an iMac G5 with internal CD burner, but not DVD burner. I do have the iDVD and iMovie software--so I installed this external driver to burn iMovie projects and after hours of messing around with my blessed iMac G5 and mystified SONY support techs finally learned it won't burn iMovie or Quicktime movies with Mac software bundle it comes with (Roxio Toast Lite 6..) Should I send back driver and get something else, or stick with it and upgrade to Toast 7? I am frustrated since the Sony/Mac software bundle leads you to believe you CAN burn your videos.

Hello Artcart,
the main difference between iDVD and Toast is, that iDVD is primarily an authoring software (it authors the structure of the DVD with possibility of multiple menus, movies/slideshows) while Toast is a disc burning app ( with the possibility of encoding movies for DVD).
If you look through the iDVD discussion board you'll find that most users adopt the "divide and conquer" method:
1. Author the DVD in iDVD because it gives you more choices for menus etc.
2. Create a disk image (a file that behaves like a DVD, but is stored on your HDD)
3. Burn the image file to DVD with Toast (more reliable for burning)
I should be able to select/drag my (NTSC formatted) iMovie project into Toast and the SONY drive will indeed burn a nice DVD for me?
Absolutely. Toast does the encoding, but offers you only a very simple menu (start-up screen). if that is sufficient for you, you can do without iDVD.
To add this: I've been using an external LaCie burner for the last 2 years to create DVDs for a living, and have had a very low failure rate .... no worries
I am not sure what "menu" selection you mean--the "play" title menues offered in iDVD?
Yep.
hope this helps
mish

DVD burner not recognizing DVDs

I've had a mini for quite some time now, and recently in the past few weeks I've had a strange problem where it no longer recognizes burnable/burned DVDs. CDs work fine, retail DVDs on movies work fine, but I am unable to access any of the things I've burned myself.
I've tried 3 of the types of burnable DVDs, and have even dug up some of my old DVDs I burned myself on this computer and they all do not mount. I've checked the system info, and the drive is still being detected as a DVD burner, so I am at a complete loss as to what could be causing this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

I'm having exactly the same problem as this.
The last discs that I burned would have been in October/November, and after that I noticed that the Mac would no longer recognise burned DVD's.
As I need to burn some more discs I've been testing in the past few days and can confirm:
1. Will not read from burned DVD-R
2. Will not recognize blank DVD-R
3. Will recognize blank DVD-RW, but will not burn to them
I'm now searching around to see if it's a hardware or a firmware problem.
The data on the drive from System Profiler is as follows:
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-835F:
Firmware Revision: GGND
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: No
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks in advance.
Mac Mini G4 1.42ghz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

DVD burner jerking me around

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