Burning Playable DVDs

Can you mount the disk image and play it with DVD Player? If so then you should be able to burn the disk image to disk and create a video DVD.

With Sierra just Control (right) - click on the disk image file and select Burn Disk Image "XXXX" to Disc...

In Disk Utility select the slowest speed possible:

Follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:

Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. 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.

The OP stated that

I have created a dvd iso image from AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS using hdiutil

This is what an iDVD disk image contains:

He also indicted that he could play that disk image with DVD Player.

Therefore, he has a valid video DVD disk image that can be burned to disk with Disk Utility.

I tried Burn on a VIDEO_TS folder that contains a bunch of files - see screen shot. When I clicked Burn it started preparing and after a few seconds went straight into "Closing session" and created a blank DVD. I tried this twice. I selected the DVD tab, the DVD output format, dropped the folder into the window, and clicked Burn. Am I missing something?

Playing a video on a DVD player needs encoding to accommodate that whereas regular files do not. So, this is why it works to use either iDVD (if you still have it) or Toast or, for that matter, a simple (free) app like Burn to encode the video files to be playable in any DVD player.

And yes, encoding takes a very long time. I've usually used .mov and found that encoding process to be a bit faster (why, I do not know). I also use iDVD to put my project together and it will encode while you're working on the menus, etc. I then burn it to a Video_TS folder within iDVD (will take a while) and then drag that into Toast which will be quite fast at that point.

So let’s get this straight. WHERE do you want to be able play this DVD? In a DVD player or on a computer? What you have right now will play on a computer. To be able to play it on a DVD player you need iDVD or Toast to encode it properly. Contrary to what another responder said you CANNOT use Finder to burn a playable DVD.

FWIW, iDVD has not been supported by Apple since Mavericks (possibly Yosemite, but it started to exhibit neurotic behavior there already). As I use iDVD as well as some older iMovie version, I purposely purchased an iMac which can run the older OS versions and maintain a partition with Mavericks to boot into for my movie projects.

I purposely purchased an iMac which can run the older OS versions and maintain a partition with Mavericks to boot into for my movie projects

Same here.

We have a bunch of i7 Mac Minis dedicated to the SOLE purpose of editing movies here. Naturally, we are using iMovie HD 6 (and iDVD) because we believe it to be the best. We are running OS X 10.9.5 on these Macs. I believe that OS X 10.9.5 is the last OS version to run iMovie HD 6 with no issues or glitches.

Nothing comes near the power and ease of use of iDVD. If you want to make a very simple DVDs there are alternatives. With iDVD, you can have Hollywood looking menus with very little effort. Toast would probably be my second choice. But it is a distant second choice. Toast will let you make menus, but these menus will not have motion, and they are set at fixed intervals. I use Toast for making Blu-rays.

Optical media is now making a massive comeback with the advent of M-DISC, because of its 1000 year lifetime.

Similar circumstances.

I am only staying with OS X 10.8.5 and OS X 10.9.5 to use all of my older Apple Software reliably.

I STILL use iPhoto, Aperture, iDVD, iMovie '06 HD ( the only true and really great iMovie version Apple EVER created), Logic Express and Final Cut Express.

All of these run terrific on OS X 10.8.5, but iMovie and Final Cut Express can flake out for no real reason from time to time on OS X 10.9.5.

I end up saving work more often in these apps in OS X 10.9.5.

Unfortunately, I am finding that I am having to use OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks more for the more recent programs I am using that are only Mavericks and later compatible and having to move away from 10.8.5 Mountain Lion even though ML has been rock solid for most of my older apps and some of my current apps that are the same ones that I use under Mavericks that, somewhat recently, ended support for OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion.

I hate the idea of booting back and forth between systems, but I may just resort myself to doing this seeing these are the only versions of OS X I have to stay with and use.

Technology. "LAWTS' of fun!

Try Burn...

http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html

You need an app like iDVD or Toast to burn a DVD that will play on a standard DVD player. Check out Toast DVD in the Mac App Store ($20).