Third party DVD burner?

Can anyone recommend a reliable third party DVD burner for my iMac with Lion OS? iDVD is no longer available.

The latest version of iDVD is very easy to get. (Will run on PPC or intel.)
It is for sale on Amazon and eBay as part of iLife 11 on disk.
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MC623Z-A-iLife-VERSION/dp/B003XKRZES/ref=sr_1_1?ie=U TF8&qid=1332999376&sr=8-1
I've tried most of the other DVD authoring programs out there. So far, iDVD remains vastly superior.

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Does anyone know if Apple has a document that list third-party DVD burners compatible with Mac?
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
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SuperDrive in my Power Mac G4 stopped read DVDs, so I replaced it with Ricoh DVD Burner. But now iDVD will not recognise my new drive. How can I fix it?

you should give the hardware experts a chance....
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I can't tell you, as my D2 DVD burnt out quicker than a candle burning at both ends, but of these...
http://www.lacie.com/products/range.htm?id=10014
It'd have to be the one with Firewire at least... just don't know what's happened to LaCie in the last couple of years.
I'd ask OWC about these...
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Recently, I have come across an issue playing back DVD's with
VLC or XBMC. When I start playback of the DVD, it plays the first
segment ( the studio leader at the beginning) and will then just quit.
Apple's DVD Player works fine (quality is crappy and can't get surround
tracks out of it). Yet, when the DVD is ripped to the hard drive and
played from there, it is works just fine.
Also, this happens when the DVD is played back from an internal
or external drive.
Has anyone else seen this issue or do I have a unique problem?

My unit is a 2010 MacMini with HDMI. (see list)
The quality issues with Apple DVD player vs. other solutions are certain
scenes have a graininess akin to noise on old analog tv's that aren't
present on the other players and severe banding in gradients that
do not appear in other players, at least when they were working.
As far as the audio, selection in the DVD's menu itself just makes no difference.
Tried all the combinations of messing with Audio MIDI setup, third party
plugins like Perian, none of which work for Apple's DVD player. This was
the other reason for going to third party players, the higher quality video
was just a bonus.
Your point has been taken that it may be a software issue with the third party players.
Some update at some point may have broken them, be it OSX or their own.
I've beaten the Apple DVD player issue enough, let's just consider the topic dead.
The audio issues with it are spread over many, many threads across the web, with
no silver bullet solution to all.
As for BluRays, play them back all the time on my Mini. Either with
PowerDVD 10 in a Bootcamp windows7 when I want full DTS-HD or
TRUE HD decoding (decodes these to up to 24 bit,192kHz 7.1 since the
Mini chipset does not have the "protected" path for pass through of
these technologies) or a MakeMKV/XBMC combo in OSX. The OSX
solution doesn't give you the fancy menus and all or HD audio if present,
but if I only want to watch the movies it's fine. If I ever do want the other
nonsense, I just use PowerDVD 10. And please note this is BluRay disk
in player, not "ripped" or transcoded.
I do appreciate your help, but was primarily curious if others had issue
as well.
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IDVD 6 not burning to my 3rd Party DVD burner

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I have an external superdrive but iDVD is not recognizing it and not letting me burn a dvd.When I look at my system profiler it recognizes the lacie burner, but then says that it doesn't support dvd burning?? anybody know about this and how to get around it? thanks!
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Currently upgraded to 2 ProMacs .. lovely! However have 3 older G4's that are still able to do a good amount of work with videos, are upgraded with RAM, video cards etc...
However I need to change the internal drives as they are now getting on to be 6 years old and are struggling to read disks... let alone create them. Apple are quoting £200 (inc vat) + installation for them (which is silly as its one of the most simple jobs to do!).
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I use Pioneers (103, 104, 109s) in externals Firewire cases, easier to move bwteeen machines if needed.
Such as these (although U.S. Store)
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/optical-drives/
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You can also manually adjust the video on Apple's built video player by going to the Window menu -> Video Zoom and unchecking lock aspect ratio if you want to customize it.
Try changing the scan rate in the Control menu in the menubar to affect color, as well as change video color in the Window menu of Apple's DVD Player. Often the built-in menus of commercial DVDs let you change the video settings that fit your desired color. If there is a specific commercial DVD that you are having trouble with, maybe I can rent it with Netflix and see if I see the problem you are seeing. It might take me a week to get it, but I'd be happy to experiment with it.
Apple's DVD Player also supports slow and faster play through its floating controller menu that is available via the Window menu -> Show Controller. Note, the slower play is available through the pullout drawer that looks like this:
The top controls that are double arrows are fast forward when held down, as opposed to change chapter if just clicked quickly. command-shift-right arrow on the keyboard (command is the Apple logo key) fast forwards even faster if held down long enough and command-shift-left arrow reverses faster and slower if held down long enough and both go in a loop from 2x to 32x in factors of 2, which when let go will give you the speed you want to change.
Sometimes you can also do a color calibration of your display if you are more used to different color gradients in Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Displays -> Color and then select Calibrate.
To zoom video on Mac OS X, you can also use universal access. Command-Option-8, followed by a command-option-equal sign on the horizontal keys above the main body of the keyboard for increase size, or a command-option-minus sign for decrease size. To disable this feature command-option-8 again. Command is the Apple logo key.
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Screen Capture of DVD is possible with the freeware Capture Me.
http://www.chimoosoft.com/captureme.html
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Is the 2-hour burn time typical thus the reason for using a DVD burner? I will buy the burner if it significantly reduces the burn time.
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Thank you in advance,
- Andreas
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I think any DVD burner will do. I went looking for a "compatible" one, and I found LaCie has some with Mac support, but it only means it comes with some Mac software.
I borrowed a friend's Plextor burner (a few years old) - he has a Windows system, and I just plugged it in and iDVD didn't complain. I didn't realise it takes ages to render the DVD, so I didn't get a chance to burn anything yet, but iDVD went through the motions of checking the DVD (I used one that had something on it) and asked if I wanted to erase what was there. All went well.
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The Pioneer 109 should work. My Pioneer 107D and 108
work fine; and the 108 is recognized as DL.
You should really upgrade to Tiger and 10.4.4 in
particular before installing iLife '06. Several new
features don't install on Panther. Ask my PowerBook.
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