Shouldn't it burn cd-r's?

Question

Hi all
Had by G4 emac for some time and want to burn small video on to cd. presume I can do - my machine is
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-117D
Drive Type: CD-RW/DVD-RW
I have tried verbatim cd-r & cd-rw but it ejects them and wont burn. Hope I'm not totally confused but I thought I could burn video to appropriate cd?
Should I try dvd-r and what chances it'll burn any better than cd's?
Any suggestions most welcome
Darryl

Answer 1

I seem to recall there's a little known format called MiniDVD or cDVD which consists of a DVD-quality (ie MPEG2) track burned onto a 600-700Mb CD.
As you will imagine, you only get about 5 mins of video on such a disc, and I seem to recall that I experimented with these back in the days before I had a DVD-Recorder (I used Toast, I think) - but back then I was only making 5minute iMovies from my iPhoto library.
My efforts would play in Apple DVD Player, but not in my standalone DVD player attached to my TV. I gave up on the format as soon as I got a DVD-Recorder, so I never really pinned down the problems.
You could try saving out from iDVD as a Disc Image then burning that to a CD with either Disk Utility or Toast and see how you get on.
But at the end of the day, you're better off (better compatibility) using DVD-R, just make DVDs containing several 5minute fils to make it worth the disc!
Vince
Edit: Just noticed this is in the iDVD4 section, to burn a disc image from iDVD4 you need to use the famous hack (search and you shall find) - or iDVD 5+