External double layer support?

Does iDVD 6 support double layer burning with an external drive? I currently use iDVD 5 and use the "French plug-in" to accomplish this. If not, does this plug-in work with iDVD 6? Do we know if iDVD 7 will support external double layer burning?
Thanks.

Actually, ALL DVD players support dual layer. If it doesn't it is not a DVD player. Most commercially produced DVDs are Dual Layer (DVD-9 or DVD-14, I cannot remember which.)
The reason you should use iDVD to make the dual layer DVD is to ensure proper placement of the data on the layers so that a player can handle the layer transition without a pause. Disk Utility can burn a dual layer DVD, but it does not check the contents of the image file to ensure correct placement of the video data. Other applications may look inside the image to correctly place the data. You will need to look at the applications user guide to see if it does so. A dual layer disk burned with Disk Utility might work, it might not. It depends on how Disk Utility happened to burn the data.

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