Hi I have iDVD 7.1.2 and OSX mountain lion.
I am trying to burn .AVI movie files to DVD but its not working. Ive followed numerous you tube / apple processes to complete this, but it either does not burn anything to DVD (depsite the process completing on iDVD ) or i get a green screen ?
Can you do this in iDVD ?
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
Hi
iDVD is picky in regard to what Video-Codec it can use (or not).
.avi, .wmv, .mp4 etc are NO CODEC - they are Containers and can hold Video-Codecs that works with iDVD or not.
Open Your .avi file (container) with QuickTime-player
Then open Inspector [cmd+I]
Then read -
• Video Format (Codec) : nnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
• Frames per second : yyyyyyyyyyy
WHAT does they read ?
Yours Bengt W
thanks , however i was not able to open the .avi file with QuickTime Plyr. Gave me the following error
QuickTime Player can't open "ABCD.avi" because a required codec isn't available.
Try installing Perian 1.2.3 and them try opening the file with QT Player. You might also download and install QuickTime Player 7 for Mac OS X v10.6.3 or later as it offers features that QT Player 10 doesn't.
OT
I had the green screen, too. Just downloading and installing Perian like Old Toad said seems to have done the trick for me. Plus now i always preview the avi in iDVD now before i do anything further.
Avi burn on iDVD
