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[Sullichin]

UGH! I just got an external DVD burner (Plextor PX-74OUF) for my Mac (iBook G4, 512MB RAM, 1.33mhz) and I'm having trouble getting the damn thing to work.

First, I made a movie for a school project in iDVD. I tried burning it to this external drive (which the mac recognizes; it ejects, reads DVDs, etc) using iDVD to no avail. It got to the very last step (finished recording) and just stuck there for hours, freezing my computer.

I did some google searching and found that iDVD doesn't like external burners, so I had to download a hack of sorts that lets you target the DVD burner. I also downloaded something called Patchburn, but i'm not sure what it did. Anyway, I got the same result.

So the next time I tell iDVD to save it as a disk image i can burn with disk utility. Okay, now it's been 'writing track' for upwards of three fucking hours.

I'm using sony DVD+R discs and my drive supports all formats, and it's 16X. So why the hell is it still burning 3 hours later? Disk utility isn't even frozen - should I just cancel?

 

[Phoenix]

Yes you should cancel it. iDVD doesn't do external drives. The iDVD enabler patch is something written by a vendor for their drive.

You are likely SOL on that one.

 

[Sullichin]

Why does Disk utility recognize my drive but take so many hours and nothing happens?

Also, I'm using iDVD 5 which is supposed to support external drives. It DOES Recognize it. It just doesn't burn :/

EDIT: Looks as if my drive just doesn't like Disk Utility/iDVD. I acquired Roxio toast and burnt the image from there. A slight pain in the ass, but hey, it works.