iDVD "easter egg"

[buddy2000]

I stumbled across this and although I dont think this is really an "easter egg" it did work for me. I have a G4 iBook and and an external dvd burner I can now use with iDVD.

http://forum.firmware-flash.com/viewtopic.php?t=23370

[willrob]

i can't speak to the burning with external drives, but iDVD4 already can create a disk image. That's one of the touted features of the 4.o release.

william

[buddy2000]

Without an Apple superdrive installed, iDVD will only let you create a project and archive it so it can be be put on a mac with a superdrive. It wont let you burn to an external drive or create a disc image of the final project.

[Falcon500]

Does it work with iDVD 4.01 or just version 4? I don't have iDVD infront of me to try it out...

[aersloat]

It works with 4.01

[Frobozz]

Mike at xlr8yourmac.com just confirmed that it worked with his external Plextor drive.

[phillip9]

If anyone has any experience wih this, please post about it.

[willrob]

My dvd drive (Pioneer 106) is internal. so I can't comment on this fix providing ecxtra support for external drives. It did not add the ability to save as a .dmg file.

When the file is downloaded and decompressed I get two Photoshop PICT resource files—without any PICT information in them. Is this what other folks are getting? And has anyone gained the ability to save/export to .dmg?

william

[Frobozz]

Here is some of what Mike posted on his xlr8yourmac.com site regarding this:

"The download file ... unstuffs to 2 files in a folder (w/Adobe PICT resource file icons) - copy them (not the folder) to your root user folder, then launch iDVD and when pressing the burn button - hold down the 'Control' key."

[live4ever]

Made an .img of the tutorial that comes with iDVD since I don't have an external drive, and was able to test in DVD player and VLC.

[strpyw]

I have G4 cube, external firewire Pioneer DVD R 104 Drive.
The above easter egg works!
Thanks for the early presents.

[weirsbaski]

Couple people said iDVD4 can create a disk image instead of burning a disk. How?

I can't find any option in the menus or in the help files.

[Frobozz]

weirsbaski, as pointed out above by buddy2000 iDVD4 only allows you to work on the project and save the project file with your non-superdrive Mac. It doesn't let you save a disk image. At least that was true until the files that are linked in the top-most post. Install those files in your User folder and hold down the control key when you click burn in iDVD. This opens a menu that allows saving a disk image or burning to an external DVD drive. I suspect the external DVD drive needs to be fully supported for burning with iApps and, of course, you must use DVD-R media (a requirement of iDVD).

[pusa]

My dvd drive (Pioneer 106) is internal. so I can't comment on this fix providing ecxtra support for external drives. It did not add the ability to save as a .dmg file.
william

Me too. I have a internal DVD drive and when I did the control-click thing, no pop-up dialog came up.