I can not install iDVD on my Titanium G4 Powerbook. Should iDVD install and run on the Powerbook? Any guidance will be most appreciated! I would enjoy copying our vacation digital video to a DVD to share with our family. I have a Revo Cyclone, Toast Titanium 5, and a lot of generic DVD-R (4.7 & 9.4), DVD-RW and CD-R. I have used iMovie and Toast to put them on VCDs, but we are the only ones in the family with DVD players that can play VCDs. I would like to be able to send out our stuff on a DVD that will play on most DVD players. At 17gb of digital video on just one hour of tape, it would be nice to use the DVD-Rs. Yes I am new at this, and I can't see spending $999.00 for Final Cut Pro. In that case, the family will just have to vacation with us next time and take their own movies. Thanks, David

Which version of OS X do you have installed? What happens when you try to install it?

Almost all dvd players can read vcd's....... But alot of them can't read cd-r's,however most can read cd-rw's.

Anything that can read CD-RW can read CD-R. iDVD, last I checked, wasn't available as a standalone installer, and therefore, to get it on a PB G4, you must be "borrowing" a copy from someone else. This, of course, is piracy. p

Not true picklle! My dvd player does not read cd-r's at all,But it will read a cd-rw no prob. I've also tried the cd-r couterpart to the rw's I use and still have had no luck. Further more even the book for toast mentions that alot of dvd players will read cd-rw's and not cd-r's.

From the Apple support page Question 7: Can I use iDVD with other CD-R or DVD-R drives? Answer: No. iDVD is designed to only work with Apple DVD-R drives, available on certain configurations of Power Mac G4 and iMac (flat panel) computers.

Andy, you've got a broken DVD player. CD-Rs are actually *easier* to read than CD-RWs, and anything capable of reading CD-RW can read CD-R. p