![]() ![]() ![]() The video file in question was an AVI, with an MPEG-4 video stream and MP3 audio, so the first step was converting it into a format compatible with DVD players. Turning a video file into a DVD that you can pop into a set-top player is increasingly esoteric and surprisingly complicated. As optical drives have waned on Macs, so has software to support them. Hardware, however, was only part of the battle. Fortunately, I have a 2011 iMac that may be getting a little long in the tooth otherwise, but turns out to be just the right age for this little adventure, so I didn’t have to run out and buy an external drive for this project. You authored some content in iDVD, popped in a blank disc, and burned away.īut that was then-these days, iDVD is long dead and Apple barely even ships a Mac with a DVD drive. I probably haven’t burned a DVD in a decade, but back in the day, this was pretty straightforward. ![]() (A digital file would have been easier, to be sure, but her setup doesn’t make watching that super easy, and there were other considerations, which I’ll go into in a bit.) It occurred to me that there was a particular video she’d wanted in DVD form. Note: This story has not been updated for several years.Ĭhristmastime was rolling around, and I was looking for a gift for my mom. ![]()
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