Create video_ts from M4V

Thanks, John, that boosted my hopes immensely, but it failed. I have the M4V file produced by my slideshow builder, Fotomagico, which I consider to be an excellent program. This M4V file has produced perfectly good slideshows, when converted to video_ts folders when burning to disc, which work on this mac and my tv. So it looks like there is no problem with that file. When I dropped it into Burn the first message was that it is an incompatible file and it asked if I wanted to convert it to MPG. I clicked yes for that but the conversion failed.

If you think I may have done something wrong, or something else to try, I look forward to it.

Thanks for the suggestions. Each step makes the process longer. For the one use I have for this disc making each year I think I will stay with the process of burning to disc to get the video_ts folder then copy data and the video_ts to new discs. That works. I was just hoping for a quicker, all on the hard drive, save a wasted disc, process. Nothing simple has been forthcoming but I will have a look at the two you mention.

Thanks for putting your mind to it.

I have looked and they do not do what I need.

Video Player VLC plays videos nicely but I did not see any opportunity to convert my M4V to video_ts.

Handbrake looked hopeful but it has only two output formats: MP4 and MKV. Not Video_ts.

So, burn a disc, copy video_ts back to the hard drive. Put it all on a new disc.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Will that create a video_ts folder? I believe that is what I need on a dvd for it to play automatically on a dvd player through my TV.

Just sending a video file may be ok for the experienced but I need automation and the slideshow needs to run an endless loop. I know that putting my slideshow to disc creating a video_ts folder will do this?

Thanks again. Burn was happy to put my M4V file to disc (no change necessary) but it did not make a video_ts folder on the hard drive. When I set it to keep the output on the hard drive it created a different file format.

True but can I add a folder of data files at the same time as mounting the ISO file? My last try like that created the slideshow dvd but failed to add the data files.

True again but....... My need is to have a playable dvd which also has data files (JPEGS) in a folder for the user to access. I can do this if I have a video_ts folder and a folder of data files on my hard drive. Then I use Toast to put these on a disc in DVD-ROM (UDF) format. This works. I just hoped I could find software to create the video_ts folder on my hard drive without having to burn to disc.