I have a downloaded a movie clip in mP4 format to work on an Apple TV.

Can anyone tell me software that will alllow me to burn this file to a 
DVD so I can play it using a DVD player to a TV. ?

Graley <OMIT.email@grabev.net> wrote:

> I have a downloaded a movie clip in mP4 format to work on an Apple TV.
> 
> Can anyone tell me software that will alllow me to burn this file to a
> DVD so I can play it using a DVD player to a TV. ?

You can use iDVD (supplied with a Mac) to create a standard DVD Video
disc. I'm not sure offhand whether it will be able to import a video
clip in MPEG-4 format, but if not, then iMovie should be able to import
the video and export to iDVD.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz

In article <4d119c8a$0$13391$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
 Graley <OMIT.email@grabev.net> wrote:

> I have a downloaded a movie clip in mP4 format to work on an Apple TV.
> 
> Can anyone tell me software that will alllow me to burn this file to a 
> DVD so I can play it using a DVD player to a TV. ?

If you burn it to a UDF data DVD, it might play on newer set-top DVD 
players that support that format (they'll say MPEG 4 or DivX in the 
manual). Toast is good for this, although I have it on good authority 
that you can do it with Disk Utility (you have to create an image first) 
and certainly from the command line. 

Otherwise, Toast can convert it to DVD format and create a DVD for you, 
but it takes a while.

Why not connect your Apple TV to a teevee? What's the clip?
-- 
If you could teach a cat to dance, 
you'd never have to leave the house.
  -- Pat Sajak

On 2010-12-21 22:36:58 -0800, Graley said:

> I have a downloaded a movie clip in mP4 format to work on an Apple TV.
> 
> Can anyone tell me software that will alllow me to burn this file to a 
> DVD so I can play it using a DVD player to a TV. ?

Toast
-- 
If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?

On 2010-12-22 23:30:10 +1000, Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> said:

> In article <4d119c8a$0$13391$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
>  Graley <OMIT.email@grabev.net> wrote:
> 
>> I have a downloaded a movie clip in mP4 format to work on an Apple TV.
>> 
>> Can anyone tell me software that will alllow me to burn this file to a 
>> DVD so I can play it using a DVD player to a TV. ?
> 
> If you burn it to a UDF data DVD, it might play on newer set-top DVD 
> players that support that format (they'll say MPEG 4 or DivX in the 
> manual). Toast is good for this, although I have it on good authority 
> that you can do it with Disk Utility (you have to create an image 
> first) and certainly from the command line.
> Otherwise, Toast can convert it to DVD format and create a DVD for you, 
> but it takes a while.
> 
> Why not connect your Apple TV to a teevee? What's the clip?

The Apple TV is conecteed to the TV in the living room. My mother is 
restricted to her bedroom and she has a small TV there with an old DVD 
player. The cliip is a movie sent to me for Christmas.

In article <4d126d1e$0$13394$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
 Graley <OMIT.email@grabev.net> wrote:

> The Apple TV is conecteed to the TV in the living room. My mother is 
> restricted to her bedroom and she has a small TV there with an old DVD 
> player. The cliip is a movie sent to me for Christmas.

In that case, I'd let Toast create a real DVD for you. The last thing 
you want is to send the thing to your mother, and she can't get it to 
play; it's frustrating for everyone.

If you have iDVD, you might try using that. I've never played with it.
-- 
If you could teach a cat to dance, 
you'd never have to leave the house.
  -- Pat Sajak

On 2010-12-22 16:36:58 +1000, Graley <OMIT.email@grabev.net> said:

> I have a downloaded a movie clip in mP4 format to work on an Apple TV.
> 
> Can anyone tell me software that will alllow me to burn this file to a 
> DVD so I can play it using a DVD player to a TV. ?

Thanks all. After a bit of fiddling, mainly because the file was in.avi 
format, I burnt a DVD with Toast.

On 12/22/10   PDT 2:46 PM, Warren Oates wrote:
> In article <4d126d1e$0$13394$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
> Graley <OMIT.email@grabev.net> wrote:
>
>> The Apple TV is conecteed to the TV in the living room. My mother is
>> restricted to her bedroom and she has a small TV there with an old DVD
>> player. The cliip is a movie sent to me for Christmas.
>
> In that case, I'd let Toast create a real DVD for you. The last thing
> you want is to send the thing to your mother, and she can't get it to
> play; it's frustrating for everyone.
>
> If you have iDVD, you might try using that. I've never played with it.

I'd be inclined to hook up the ATV to the little TV. Wait! It's too old, 
no doubt, neither composite or HDMI? Take a computer monitor in, then.

-- 
john mcwilliams

On 23/12/10 01:32, Graley wrote:

> Thanks all. After a bit of fiddling, mainly because the file was in.avi
> format, I burnt a DVD with Toast.

What fiddling did you have to do? Toast should have done any conversion 
necessary behind the scenes.