Burning to external burner with DVDSP4 at DVinfo.net

Jase Tanner · January 29th, 2008, 12:27 PM

I damaged the case on my MBP and its not physically possible to insert a disc to the internal burner. I've tried it on a fairly anceint external Lacie, but DVDSP keeps telling me to insert recordable media which already has been. I am able to play back on this unit on my MBP and also burn on my anceint G4 so I know there's nothing wrong with it.

Am what I'm trying to do possible and if so, how?

Thanks

Mike Barber · January 29th, 2008, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Jase Tanner

Am what I'm trying to do possible and if so, how?

When you insert the blank media, does Finder ask you what you want to do? For example, when i insert a blank DVD into my external Lacie DVD burner, I get the Finder dialogue saying "You inserted a blank DVD. Choose an action from the pop-up menu or click Ignore." and has a pulldown menu with different apps to open (Finder, iDVD, iTunes, Disk Utility, and Open other application...). If you do get this, select "Open other application…" and then select DVDSP.

If you are NOT getting this prompt, open System Prefs and go to CDs & DVDs, and make sure that "When you insert a blank DVD:" is set to "Ask what to do"

Jase Tanner · January 29th, 2008, 03:01 PM

I am getting the prompt. The first time I already had DVDSP open so I selected the finder. When that didn't work, I closed DVDSP, reinserted the DVD and when prompted, selected DVDSP. Same result.

So in other words, the MBP is recognizing both the burner and the dvd, but DVDSP is not.

Chris Harris · January 29th, 2008, 11:01 PM

This is actually a flaw in the design of DVDSP. What you have to do is instead of clicking on "burn", you have to click on "build and format", and it will give you a bunch of advanced options. If I remember correctly, it has a drop down menu giving you the option of which ever burner you want to use on your computer, or to make a disk image. Anyway, you can just choose your external burner and everything should be fine.

Jase Tanner · January 30th, 2008, 11:58 AM

Chris

Thanks for that. Actually I managed to find that very answer on another forum though I found I still could not burn it directly. I had to save it to disc and then use disk utility to do the burn.

January 29th, 2008, 12:27 PM	#1
Jase Tanner Major Player Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 346	Burning to external burner with DVDSP4 I damaged the case on my MBP and its not physically possible to insert a disc to the internal burner. I've tried it on a fairly anceint external Lacie, but DVDSP keeps telling me to insert recordable media which already has been. I am able to play back on this unit on my MBP and also burn on my anceint G4 so I know there's nothing wrong with it. Am what I'm trying to do possible and if so, how? Thanks

January 29th, 2008, 03:01 PM	#3
Jase Tanner Major Player Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 346	I am getting the prompt. The first time I already had DVDSP open so I selected the finder. When that didn't work, I closed DVDSP, reinserted the DVD and when prompted, selected DVDSP. Same result. So in other words, the MBP is recognizing both the burner and the dvd, but DVDSP is not.

January 29th, 2008, 11:01 PM	#4
Chris Harris Major Player Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: San Francisco, California Posts: 487	This is actually a flaw in the design of DVDSP. What you have to do is instead of clicking on "burn", you have to click on "build and format", and it will give you a bunch of advanced options. If I remember correctly, it has a drop down menu giving you the option of which ever burner you want to use on your computer, or to make a disk image. Anyway, you can just choose your external burner and everything should be fine.

January 30th, 2008, 11:58 AM	#5
Jase Tanner Major Player Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 346	Chris Thanks for that. Actually I managed to find that very answer on another forum though I found I still could not burn it directly. I had to save it to disc and then use disk utility to do the burn.