Hi, Freddie.
1. You wrote:
"But when I cut a "Super Video CD" with a QuickTime slide-show that I created in iPhoto, it will not play in the DVD player on my TV, nor in the G4 iMac Superdrive."
VCD and SVCD (Super VCD) are different formats. SVCDs uses MPEG-2 video compression (encoding). VDCs employ MPEG 1 encoding.
QuickTime supports conventional VCDs: see
"Mac OS X 10.4 Help: Playing a Video Compact Disc (VCD)." With Quicktime, MPEG-2 compression is only available with the extra-cost
QuickTime MPEG-2 Component.
Your home DVD player may also not support the SCVD format. Check the manual that came with the DVD player for the disk formats it supports. For example, my home DVD player supports VCDs but not SVCDs.
Try burning a VCD instead.
Note that if you use iDVD to create a DVD of the iPhoto slide show and burn it to DVD-R media, it should play on both Macs running Mac OS X and most home DVD players. See:
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"iPhoto 6.0 Help: Exporting a slideshow to iDVD."
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"iDVD 6.0 Help: Using slideshows created in iPhoto."
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"iDVD 6.0 Help: Creating an iDVD slideshow."
For information on viewing VCDs and SVCDs under Mac OS X, see my
"VCD and SVCD Players" FAQ.
2. You wrote:
"Is this the right place for a question on Toast?"
Technically, no. Roxio has their own
Discussion Groups for their products.
Good luck!
😉 Dr. Smoke
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