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Burn a playable DVD from a VIDEO_TS folder
Authored by: gavynj on Thu, Jun 14 2007 at 1:55PM PDT

I tried using DVD Imager, but it kept on crashing on me. I then ran the mkisofs command which DVD Imager uses, and that failed too, reporting errors. Using hdiutil worked fine each time.

Burn a playable DVD from a VIDEO_TS folder
Authored by: ArtemisG3 on Thu, Jun 14 2007 at 2:00PM PDT

I currently use mkisofs in a similar Applescript to the one I posted above for my DVD imaging needs. The terminal command for mkisofs looks like this:

mkisofs -f -dvd-video -udf -V DVD_VIDEO -o ~/Desktop/DVD_VIDEO.iso ~/Desktop/DVD_VIDEO/