External DVD not supported?

Hi All
I bought a mac mini with a standart CD-RW/DVD ROM drive. I chose not to go for the SuperDrive as I have a external Freecom DVD-RW, which is Mac compatable. It works fine on my mac mini when I copy/back up large files to it.
I launched iDVD with the external DVD-RW plugged in, but still got the message "your mac does not have a Superdrive, iDVD will not burn DVD's". Essentially, I can create the DVD project, but not create a DVD. Is there a way round this? I know I can create an image (.img file), but how do I actually create a DVD movie from it?
Thanks

Hi Hassan,
See these Apple articles:
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