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Burning Star Wars Revisited on a Mac

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Hi y'all, I hate to ask a question that's probably been gone over but my cursory search didn't turn anything up. Plus I'm hot to trot and kind of impatient. So, sorry bout that.

Anyway I downloaded Star Wars: Revisited hoping to burn a DVD of it. However it is a huge file and too big for a DVD (I knew it was large when I DL'd but figured there must be some trick to it). 

This is the NTSC DVD 9 version. I'm not sure if it's meant to be burned to Blu Ray or what, but I can't do that with a Mac.

If there's no way of getting this at full quality onto a DVD - which it appears there's not - I'm curious if there's away to at least play through the entire film with VLC. I can open individual TS files but they're obviously in chunks; there isn't one with the full movie on it.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you!

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On Vlc it should work if you select "open directory". Try that.

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DVD9 (8gb) is a Dual Layer dvd. I use Roxio's Toast to burn things on a mac:

http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/default.html

But you need a dvd burner which understands dual layer media, then you need some dual layer media.

In VLC, there is a playlist option or you can often drag/drop the .ISO into the playlist.  Or if you've already expanded the .ISO, then drop in the .ts's you've mentioned.  There will probably be a slight pause as it transitions from one .ts to the next.

Another option is to seek out the DVD5 (4gb) version, or take the DVD9 version and shrink it.  There will be quality loss, that's the price of smaller file size.

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Thanks guys. I did not know about the Dual Layer thing, and it looks like my Macbook Pro does support burning those type of DVDs. I just need to go buy one (I hope). Which is great news.

And on VLC I did not see "open directory", but that advice led me to try "open disc" which has an option for opening a VIDEO_TS folder. So again, thanks to both of you. 

 

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oh, yeah, "folder"! of course, it's "open folder"... Ok, it was off the top of my head and I use a foreign translation of vlc, I was close enough.. :)

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Mac user here:

- You can use DVD Player to open DVD media (VIDEO_TS folders definitely, and maybe ISO files) that's stored on a hard drive.  Just go to "File - Open DVD Media..." and navigate to the folder you're looking for.

- I recommend Roxio Toast for disc burning on a Mac.  It'll burn both single-layer (~4.5GB) and dual-layer (~8.5GB) discs.  This is what I used to burn the Revisited NTSC DVD-9.  It'll burn VIDEO_TS folders and ISO files.

- I highly recommend getting Verbatim dual-layer blank discs, not any other brand.  Memorex is particularly bad - only about 50% (at best) of Memorex dual-layers I try to burn are successful.  Verbatims are more like 95% successful.

Hope that helps!