Burn m4v to DVD for DVD player

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Burn m4v to DVD for DVD player

My wife is a fitness instructor and the company she gets her workouts from started sending links to download the videos that are m4v files instead of mailing DVD's. She wants to make a DVD that's able to be used in our DVD player, but I've only had success in making coasters. I have Toast Titanium 11, Mac X Video Convertor, and Mac X DVD Ripper Pro. I can get the DVD's to burn as a data dvd, but not a movie. I've used every file format that I can think of, but can't get it to burn as a movie disk. Any suggestions?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Aug 24, 2014 12:32 PM

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Answer 1

Old Toad

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Aug 24, 2014 2:01 PM in response to BarryT82

In Toast 11 click on the Video button, and then the Options button. Select Format = DVD-Video.

Drag your .m4v file into the window on the left, select the Menu style, select Disk Image as the Destination and then click on the Save button.

This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.

To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.

Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.

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Answer 2

BarryT82 Author

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Aug 24, 2014 5:51 PM in response to Old Toad

I did that and it plays in DVD player but the DVD still isn't playing in my DVD player. I know the DVD-R's work because I've used them to make copies and played them in my DVD player in the past. The format it burned in is UDF which is the same format as the DVD's they used to mail us.

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Answer 3

Aug 25, 2014 2:57 AM in response to BarryT82

Hi

What Brand of DVD did You try ? Memorex, NoName etc are known problems to use for VIDEO

What BURN SPEED did You set ? ( Non ? ) then one use to get problems - I set x2 or max x4

Free Space on Start-Up (Mac OS) Hard Disk ? - I never go less than 25Gb before burn.

Yours Bengt W

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BarryT82 Author

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Aug 25, 2014 3:28 AM in response to Bengt Wärleby

II'm using Verbatim DVD-R's. I also tried a DVD+RDL. My hard drive has about 700GB of free space. The burn speed is 4x with the DVD-R and 3x with the DVD+R DL. If I put the DVD in my Mac mini it automatically plays in DVD Player.

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Answer 5

Aug 25, 2014 4:46 AM in response to BarryT82

OK

Then it's down to Corrupted files - as Pref. Cache or material (Video,Audio or Photos)

or

Use of Video-Codecs iMovie/iDVD can not really handle (and they have no good way of telling so but failing one way or another)

.m4v, .mp4, .avi, .mov etc etc - ARE NO Video-Codecs but Containers (sort of folders) that can hold Codecs that iM/iDVD can use - OR NOT.

Open the .m4v file with QuickTime Player

Open INSPECTOR - [ cmd+I ]

Read:

Video formatted (CODEC) as : nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Frames per second : YY.yy

What does they say.

Yours Bengt W

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Answer 6

BarryT82 Author

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Aug 31, 2014 5:39 AM in response to Bengt Wärleby

Format :

JVT/AVC Coding, 640 x 352

AAC, 44100 Hz, Stereo (L R)

FPS: 25

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