How to change read only attribute in iDVD disc image

Roxio Toast can use Video TS folders to create discs, so that could be a possibility.
John

Hello Martin,

you can create a DVD disc image burnable with Disc Utility from a VIDEO_TS folder using Laine D. Lee's DVD Imager:
http://lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/applescript/dvdimager.html

hope this helps

mish

The documentation of myDVDEdit would lead you to believe you could just open the VIDEO_TS folder and change the attribute.

Correct. I do that on every single project. Here is how:

You have finished your iMovie project with music, transitions and so on, and saved it to you Movies Folder. Before you started the project you naturally set it to DV Widescreen.

Open iDVD. Give the project a name, and save it as Widescreen if it didn’t default to the same aspect as your iMovie project. Now import the iMovie project into iDVD, choose a theme (any theme you like, even if it prefers to stay at 4:3) and save the project. Do what you would normally do to the theme and its drop zones. Save the project.

Now save as Disk Image on your desktop. Leave it there for the moment when it has finished/appeared.

Open your Movies Folder. Create a new folder. Name it PROJECTNAME – TS FILES (where ‘projectname’ is the name of your project!). Close the folder. You can of course call it anything you like, but this aids identification.

Now double-click the disk image on your desktop. It contains two folders: AUDIO_TS (which is empty, but please pretend that it isn’t) and VIDEO_TS. Drag and drop these to the folder you created in your Movies Folder. (This takes a moment).

Click on the AUDIO_TS folder and go to Get Info in the file menu. Right down the bottom is where you have to change the permissions. Under ‘Ownership & Permissions’ change this from Read Only to Read & Write. Click the small triangle next to Details, scroll down and click on ‘Apply to enclosed items’. You will be asked for your root password. Close the get info window, and now click on the VIDEO_TS folder and do the same. Close the Projectname-TS Files folder. You have now allowed yourself to change the properties of the contents of those folders, which leads us to the next all-important step.

Open myDVDedit. Go to File and open the projectname TS Files folder. By all means stare at it shock and awe, but don’t bother finding out what it can do, except for the following:

Top left you fill see a list of files. Lower centre you have a large window. On the vertical menu to the left of that, click IFO.

In the window at the top left, ignore ‘First Play’ (if there was anything to correct in that, myDVDedit will have done so and told you).

Click on VMG Menu en (English). Now the whole thing springs to life.

Set Coding Mode to MPEG-2 (if it isn’t already)
Set Standard to PAL (or NTSC if that is what you want)
Set Aspect to 16:9 (not any of the other options)

Now save the file.

Click on VTS Menu 1 en (English) and repeat as above.

Click on VTS Menu 2 and repeat as above.

You have now permanently ‘fixed’ the entire contents of the TS folder (the disk image) in 16:9 aspect. Close myDVDedit – you won’t need it again until the next project!

If you have Toast 7 Titanium, open it. ‘Select DVD-Video from VIDEO_TS’. Choose Select from the main Toast window and select your projectname-TS Files folder. You are now ready to burn! You can set the burn speed (2x recommended) before the burn commences. Allow Toast to verify the burn before you eject the DVD-R disk.

If you don’t have Toast 7, then I assume you can burn the projectname-TS Files folder (disk image) via Disk Utility. I say ‘assume’ only because I have never tried it that way.

Either way, you now have a DVD which will play as 16:9 widescreen on any TV set, even the old ones where you can’t ask it to letter-box.

Hello Martin,

So something happened (or was different) other than just the 16:9 auto widescreen setting that I made with myDVDEdit.

one thing that comes to my mind here: when setting permissions to "read only" did you select "Apply to enclosed items"?

To my knowledge you can't burn a VIDEO_TS folder using Disk Utility. You can create a new disk image from a folder with DU but that will result in a .dmg file, not a .img.
IMHO the easiest way to create a new image file is the above mentioned DVD Imager - that is if you don't have Toast. Creating the disk image also lets you verify the correct playback using DVD Player.

BTW, there's another tool that allows burning DVD's from a VIDEO_TS folder NTI Dragonburn. It contains many of the features of Toast, but is available at roughly half the price.

hope this helps

mish

Martin

From your first post:

I tried copying the VIDEO_TS folder from the image file to my desktop and there I am able to change the attributes to Read/Write, make my changes, and then change the attributes back to Read Only.

Firstly, as I described, you have to change the permission of the entire folder to 'read & write', and you DON'T change it back again.

That's why I came back to the question of how to change the permissions on the VIDEO_TS folder in the original img folder or replace the VIDEO_TS folder in the original img folder.

I don't see what difference that makes, it's the same TS folder?

Did you also change the permissions of the TS Audio folder and leave it oin place? I know it's empty, but you should still not remove it.

Martin, you did not follow the process I outlined. Please read my post again, the answers are there. Start with the fact that you have to copy the contents of the desk folder to a new folder you create in your Movies folder.