Mac burning noob- how do I get ANH:R to burn properly?

Author: Shewski
Date: 26-Apr-2010, 2:43 PM

Author: Shewski
Time: 26-Apr-2010 2:43 PM
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Hi there,

I'm a recent Mac convert, and I discovered Adywan's fantastic edit and wanted to watch it on the TV instead of on my monitor.

I believe I got the right torrent (it was an ISO, whatever that means), and I know typically you open the ISO, you see all those nice little video_ts folders and what not, and you copy them into a burn folder on your desktop. I got some dual layers discs and went to town.

I did that, and got all excited since I got an autoplay of the new DVD on the computer. But when I went to my TV/DVD player it did not like it.

Did I just burn a DVD ROM or something?

Thanks for any help you all can provide!

Author: Moth3r
Time: 27-Apr-2010 6:06 AM
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An ISO file is a disc image ready to burn. "Opening" it and extracting the VIDEO_TS folder out of the image was the wrong thing to do, unfortunately.

You need to use burning software that supports burning ISO images to disc. I've never done this on a Mac, but a quick Google search suggests that the built-in Disk Utility can do it.

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Author: Shewski
Time: 27-Apr-2010 7:03 AM (Edited)
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I had never heard of that program. Thanks for that info. I'll google more about that and see what I can come up with.

Also, I noticed that I have the PAL ISO. I'm in the US... that's the wrong version, now that I think of it. Isn't the US format NT something?

Author: Moth3r
Time: 27-Apr-2010 7:40 AM
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That's right, the NTSC version is intended for American DVD players/televisions. You may have compatibility issues trying to view the PAL version.

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Author: Shewski
Time: 29-Apr-2010 8:16 AM
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It worked!

I have a TV w/ DVD built in that didn't like it, but my external DVD player did. Thanks for all your helP!

Author: Shewski
Time: 4-Jun-2010 12:35 AM
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Hi gents,

so I recently bought some more DVDs to give to others, but I had to buy a DVD+R DL. The first time I used a DVD-R DL and it worked great.

These new discs seem to burn for a little, and then stop prematurely and cause an error to start up.

I'm using Disk Utility to burn, and my drive says it is compatible w/ +R DLs.

Any ideas if I am doing anything wrong? Could it just be that my mac doesn't like the new media?