Osx 10.6 burn dvd - different machines

Hi there forum,
to help out my father-in-law, who is a bit tired generally and has been wasting 18months trying software changes because he doesn't believe his PC burner is busted, I said I'd help. He, for some reason, wants to burn MP4s to DVD.
I have a OSX.6 MacBook with SuperDrive without iDVD and a separate, not networked, MacMini (OSX.?) with ComboDrive and iDVD.
but I've heard such good things about iDVD.
Any tips on how I can quickly and easily get a flashdrive mp4 onto a DVD with these tools?
Thanks in advance.
ChrisInOz
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Hi
Yes - but I'll doubt the Quality..
In iMovie - Share/Export as QuickTime
- as .mp4 / H.264
Save it onto a Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted USB-Hard Disk / Memory
I think iDVD should be able to import this and create an usable DVD from it.
Save as a DiskImage - first and test this so that DVD Player tool plays it OK.
Yours Bengt W

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name's avatar is of the representative PowerPC iMac G4, of this forum area.}
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