Help with G4 and new DVD-R drive

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Help with G4 and new DVD-R drive

Working to install a Pioneer DVR-710 16x16 drive on my G4 Quicksilver.

(Now if there are no drivers for this Pioneer model to work on a Mac, tell me now and I'll take this drive back and exchange it)

This drive reads and plays DVD's fine. The only application that seems to notice the DVD-R under OS 10.3.9 is iDVD. Trying to write images to it, or trying to use this as a storage DVD is not getting me anywhere so far.

Two questions, will this drive work with my Mac as a storage DVD writer (not just media), and what applications can I use on the Mac to write on DVD's aside from iDVD? (And will I need to download DVD-R drivers for this?

Thankful as always, Doc Clu

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Try Patchburn:

Try Patchburn:

http://www.patchburn.de/

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yea try patchburn cause i don

yea try patchburn cause i dont think that model was supported in panther . now if you had tiger 10.4.8 or 9 it would have support. i had to do the same with my Pioneer DVR-110D when i had jaguar to install patchburn. in OS 9.2.2 someone made me a modded PioneerCDR authoring support extension that will allow the DVR-110D to have iTunes and finder burn support.

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yea try patchburn cause i don

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Thank you!

Thank you! This suggestion worked great. Got patchburn on the computer & made my FIRST DVD. That rocked.

Alright, anyone up for a another question?

I have found that .avi movies can be converted to .mov by Quicktime and used in iDVD.

I tried to make .mpg to use in iDVD (usually .mpg is more usable than .avi for most things Apple) and iDVD did not like it. I converted them from .mpg to .mov and iDVD still did not like it. What suggestions would there be to make a .mpg usable in iDVD?

Thanks!

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