Burning music to a DVD from a Mac?

Michelle

I'm wanting to burn some music I have on iTunes to a DVD-R so I can play it on my tv (which has better sound quality than my laptop). I know how to do it, I'm just debating between the options of burning the music as an audio cd, mp3 cd, or a data cd/dvd? I'd really like to be able to like see a list of the songs on the tv screen, so would any of those options allow me to do that? Any ideas as to what the best option would be? Thanks!

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I'm unaware of an avenue that a cd or dvd can be burned and the playlist displayed on the screen, though perhaps there is an app that supports the video portion for displaying.

If you have a newer television you may want to check and see if there is a connection/adapter that would allow music player to be connected and playlist to be viewed, selected and played.

How do I make Front Row my default player? ?

mnellessen

When I insert a DVD into my Mac, the DVD player automatically plays the movie. I know how to change the settings on DVD player so it won't automatically play, but is there a way I can change my settings so when I insert a DVD the movie will automatically play using Front Row?

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Nothing will make front row automatically play. Just insert your DVD and open front row. If you don't want DVD player to open when you insert a DVD then just change the preferences in that app.

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A question for you mac users about getting pictures from a DVD?

Percy

My grandfather just had his 80th birthday reunion. The entire family came. I juse received in the mail a DVD which is a slideshow of the whole party. This was obviously done by a professional because at the end it had their credits and their website listed. I know it'd probably be illegal to take their images but I only would want them to keep for myself in my photo library. How on earth can I extract a picture from a DVD video using the DVD player that comes on a mac? It only lets you stop, play, rewind, etc. It's not like a quicktime video clip where I can do that. Is there any way to do it?

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Try this:

1. Open the DVD player.app and insert a DVD. For this to work, the DVD window must be set to "Maximum Size" or below (NOT Fullscreen).

2. Open Terminal.app (Located in Applications â Utilities).

3. Now, type "screencapture -i ~/Desktop/mydvd.png" without quotes and hit enter. You'll notice a crosshair icon appear.
Note: You can replace the "mydvd" part with anything you want.

4. At this point, you've got two options for taking the screenshot. You can (a) use the crosshair icon to select a portion of the screen, or (b) hit space bar to turn the crosshair icon into a camera icon. If you go with option b, you'll be able to select specific windows within your screen real estate. Simply highlight the DVD window and click to capture. A .png image will be saved on your desktop.

If you'd rather use software to take your screenshots, try the following applications:

AsSceneOnTV: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23960
DVD Snap: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24095
Capture Me: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11623

Replaying DVD discs on a Mac OSX system?

shirese197

Can someone help me? I get the message that I do not have a default program to play DVD discs, but I have viewed DVD discs in the past.

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I just put a DVD into my Macintosh. The app "DVD Player" immediately started playing my DVD. Do you have this app? If so, you may need to tell your Mac to use it as the default player when a DVD is inserted.

Go to System Preferences (in your Dock and in the Apple menu), choose CDs & DVDs and then tell your Mac which program to use to play your DVDs.

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How much is the "DVD Player" application on the Mac?

James

Is it free? Or is there a price?

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The DVD player app on the Mac is bundled with OS X and comes free with every new Mac. You cannot buy it separately.

Can DVD player for mac play disk images?

James H

Is there a plugin or fix available to allow the standard DVD player application in mac to play disk images (mounted from .dmg)? It would be helpful and would remove the need to take all my delicate DVD's on long car trips. :)

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DVD Player.app has this functionality by default. I use it all the time to check DVDs I make in DVD Studio Pro and iDVD. I also use it to time-shift rentals.

Once DVD Player is open, choose File < Open DVD Media. Choose the disk from the sidebar. You don't have to go down to the line to select folders or anything.

Alternatively, you can use Front Row to play the DVD as a disk image. First, you must create an alias of the /Volumes directory in your home folder. Because /Volumes is hidden, you can get to it by activating Finder and selecting Go < Go to Folder and typing /Volumes Option + Command + drag the icon on top of the window to create an alias in your home folder.

You can use a bunch of third party video players, namely VLC to watch DVDs stored in that format, but the concept is that it is a virtual disk, so the OS understands what it is, and what to do with it.

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What can I do if my Windows Media Player needs a DVD decoder installed?

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micah

My laptop is running on Windows 7. I tried to click the Web Help button but I wasn't able to understand the technicalities written there, only that I need an MPEG-2 decoder. HELP!

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hat is a Codec? A "Codec" is a technical term for the "compression/decompression" of large downloadble files. Commonly associated with music and movie files transmitted, they tell the player how to decode the movie you want to play. Codec Vary depending on the program that created them.
Chances are you are missing a Codec or two. Do yourself a favor and get VLC Player, it just works and comes with all of it's Codec's.
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Simple, Powerful and Fast
Plays everything, Files, Discs (DVD, CD, VCD), Devices and Streams
Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed
Completely Free, 0 Spyware, Ads or User Tracking
Best Mpeg2, x264, DivX player
Works on most platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix...
Media Converter and Streamer
"It plays everything!"
The media player that fulfills all your needs. It handles DVDs, (S)VCDs, Audio CDs, web streams, TV cards and much more.
With VLC, there is no need to continually update many different codec packs. VLC comes with nearly every codec built in!
And whats more, VLC can play back your files, even if the media is damaged! Missing or broken pieces wont stop VLC. All the video and audio information that remains can be played.
1. DVD decryption is done through the libdvdcss library.
2. VLC on GNU/Linux, Solaris, and Microsoft Windows has playback control support via libcdio and libvcdinfo. On other platforms, SVCD support varies depending on the availability of these libraries. (Volunteers for adding support are always welcome.). Handling still frames (often used in menus) and switching between different video formats is problematic.
3. On Mac OS X 10.4 or later, VLC is able to grab video and audio from EyeTV applications and therefore all EyeTV-compatible capture devices. The user needs to install a plugin to EyeTV.app in order to use this feature. Guidance is provided in the User Interface. Requires VLC 0.9.0 or later.
4. VLC for GNU/Linux supports V4L2 compatible encoding cards as well as two kinds of MPEG-2 encoding cards: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250/350 and Visiontech Kfir.
5. VLC can capture video from internal iSights on Mac OS X 10.5 or later (video only) since version 0.9.0. VLC 1.2 adds enables capturing from all devices supported by QTKit.

Do any of the new MacAirs have Region 2 capability?

JOAN

I live in Ireland and have Region 2 DVD's. I'm emigrating to the U.S. soon (Region 1) and want to buy a particular series of 18 Region 2 TV shows to play there. Do any Apple MacAirs have the capability to play either Regions1 or 2 ? I intend to buy the Apple in the U.S. If the answer is no, what do I have to do to be able to play Region 2's in Region 1 without the hard-drive routine? Thanks!

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In computer DVD readers, region is set in the drive, and can be set up to 6 times.
The computer itself or the play back app have no region.

So long as you leave your drive set to region 2, you should be good. Mac Airs have no optical drive (or spinning drives for that matter), so you set that to your USB drive.

You could also get an R2 standalone player, and shop for a PAL capable TV in the US (take the player to the store and try it on the TVs there).

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How to remove the password of a dmg file?

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Bizhan

I have a dmg file (3.7 GB) which is a video and I can play it on my mac, I am trying to burn it on a dvd so i can play it on a dvd player or my playstation, i am able to successfully burn it but it still doesn't play neither on a DVD player nor my playstation, i tried a pc too but still doesn't read it...the dmg file is encrypted, I was wondering if this was the problem, will decrypting solve this or there is another issue... any suggestion is very much appreciated!

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To find the password of any encrypted file, contact the person who made it. I wish there was some other way, but there is not. The reason for the password is so you cannot use it without the password. The guy didn't put a password on it just to make you look around on websites and ask here at Yahoo Answers and waste half a day. He did it to STOP YOU FROM USING THE FILE. Why would he do that? No idea. Ask him.

"I have a dmg file (3.7 GB) which is a video"
Not really true. A DMG file is a disk image. The file INSIDE the disk image COULD be a movie file--or not. If it is a bunch of files, such as "VIDEO_TS" and others, it is a group of files that together make a DVD. Typically, you simply drag those files to a blank DVD and click the burn icon. To tell us what the heck is in the disk image, double-click it to mount it, and look at the file extension of the file (extension is the part AFTER the dot).

If this DMG has the folder "VIDEO_TS" and such, you can extract a compressed movie file from it using Handbrake.

To use a compressed movie file in Windows 7, these formats work....

"Windows Media Player 12 has built-in support for many popular audio and video formatsâincluding 3GP, AAC, AVCHD, MPEG-4, WMV, and WMA. It also supports most AVI, DivX, MOV, and Xvid files." --from the 1st link below

If the stuff inside the DMG is not a complete set of folders/files for a DVD, but is instead a compressed movie file, you can still use that file to make a DVD movie disc, although the quality will typically be lower than that of a commerical DVD movie disc. To make a DVD movie disc on a Mac....

-- If your computer is not 2011 or later model, it came with iDVD (which happens to be discontinued now). Use it. iMovie is the app that came with your Mac for editing movies. Then it has an option to Export to iDVD, which has a Help menu, and if that doesn't answer all your questions, use support.apple.com for "iDVD menus" or whatever your question is about.

-- If your 2011 or later computer came with no iDVD, use DVDStyler. It is a free (not a demo / trial) open-source alternative to iDVD for Intel Macs. It has most of the same options as iDVD, but not as many cool themes.

How do i use the Burn app on Mac os x to burn dvd?

luvlifegiz

i have lots of movies in .AVI format that i want to burn to disc so i can watch them in my dvd player. I tried doing what i thought but the dvd player said the format was wrong. please help i thought this was simple??

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Hello, luvlifegiz23.
You didn't mention which computer you have. Is it Apple? Did it come with a DVD burner? Apple provided iMovie and iDVD which is EVERYTHING you need EXCEPT the codecs for the outdated AVI format. Get that by downloading Perian, link below. Perian will enable your Apple programs to use AVI and FLV (Youtube) files. You don't have to download any of those other things. That is not to say those other apllications won't work. They may do the job as well, but why spend time learning some off-the-wall applications to duplicate the abilities you have in iMovie and iDVD?

Step 1: Download and install Perian. It simply provides the conversion software that works in the background. You don't ever need to do anything with it.

Step 2: Open iMovie, choose"New Project", and choose where to save the project. {a project has the movie file, plus any special effects files you add from iMovie that can be merged into the final DVD movie}. Go to File > Import. After you import the AVI file, move the thumbnail(s) to the bottom of the iMovie window to arrange them in the Clip Viewer. Add transitions or titles if you need them by following the iMovie Help.

Step 3: When done, click the iDVD button at the right to add chapter markers, if you need them.

Step 4: When done, click the "Create iDVD Project" button to launch iDVD. Use iDVD Help to learn how to add a menu and chapters.

Step 5: When done, click the burn button. You will get a message to insert a blank DVD. Use Verbatim brand if you have any trouble with other brands (big name is no guarantee when it comes to DVD quality).

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