Looking for a Burning program

I'm looking for a burning program that will allow me to burn divx files to DVD discs for my first gen MacBook.

You can right-click on the file and select "Burn to Disc". Mac OS X has this natively built in.

Burn - Home free and open source and one of the easiest to use with great looking burns.

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I want a divx disc to be burnt. So like 4 movie files on 1 DVD.

Come on mate. A little bit of effort on your part. I did give you a valid link to a valid and well known DVD burning App and if you bothered to look half way down the page

Made your own movies and want to share them with family and friends? No problem. Burn can create a wide range of video discs. From VideoCD to DVD-Video discs. And DivX discs to fit more of your videos on a disc.

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Burn comes stock on the mac that's why I didn't fully read in depth. Will changing up my burning programs allow me to burn. Toast 8 sometimes works and sometimes fails for me. That's why I'm looking for a new program that will be efficient and work. I know m burner works as it allows me to burn CDs through iTunes and a few data discs through toast 8, so I hope this program solves my issue and will allow me to burn videos successfully.

NO Burn doesn't. There is a burn program that is by Default on your Mac as MYmacROX pointed out in his post, but BURN is a 3rd party App that is downloadable through the link i provided.
Best bet is dl it and see if it holds up to what you want. As it stands Burn has never failed me yet.

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PEBCAC, I believe.

I have been having trouble with xilisoft. Can I just convert an avi to a dvd format then just right-click and burn it to a blank dvd for play on a dvd player? What format does it have to be in and what is the easiest way to do it? I tried burn, but it keeps quitting unexpectedly as does xilisoft, for some reason.

Divx discs are great bro. It's just burning an .avi file to a DVD. Most players can read divx. This way you get 4 movies on one disc.

I was using toast 8, but it seems like the program rarely works anymore fo burning movies.

joeg679 said:

I have been having trouble with xilisoft. Can I just convert an avi to a dvd format then just right-click and burn it to a blank dvd for play on a dvd player? What format does it have to be in and what is the easiest way to do it? I tried burn, but it keeps quitting unexpectedly as does xilisoft, for some reason.

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Xiisoft is junk. The same software is sold under a host of different names by different Chinese spammer outfits. If you used your credit card to pay for it, I'd be very leery of the integrity of that account.

In order to burn to a standard set-top compatible DVD player, you'll need software that can transcode the video into that format. Roxio's Toast can do that on-the-fly. Although Burn does an admirable job, I don't believe it has the capacity to do the needed transcoding.

For this burn program why does it always say I need to convert my
file to .avi when adding it to the window to be burned. The files are downloaded in .avi format so I'm confused why burn ms convert once again. Furthermore, the convert process that appears to me as unneeded, takes for ever and sometimes freezes and won't quit, therefore requiring me to power down my MacBook.

Why is the process needed? What are you intending to play these DVDs on? They to be in a DVD format to play on all set top DVD players. A True DVD is not an AVI. It has to be converted to a Video_TS format first before burning if you want the DVD to play on all true DVD players.

It's early here and I am half asleep, but hope that explains it a bit.

GinoLicious said:

For this burn program why does it always say I need to convert my
file to .avi when adding it to the window to be burned. The files are downloaded in .avi format so I'm confused why burn ms convert once again. Furthermore, the convert process that appears to me as unneeded, takes for ever and sometimes freezes and won't quit, therefore requiring me to power down my MacBook.

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Because AVI isn't a codec, it's a container. AVI files can be encoded in many different formats.

Burn doesn't do transcoding. As stated previously, you'll want something like Toast that will actually change the format from one to another on-the-fly.

Toast for sure is the best out there for OSX. Thanks CWA for mentioning that.

Yes I use to use toast but toast 8 doesn't seem to work anymore. Moat times when trying to burn a divx disc I get an error and it fails

GinoLicious said:

Yes I use to use toast but toast 8 doesn't seem to work anymore. Moat times when trying to burn a divx disc I get an error and it fails

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Toast 8 is pretty old. Probably just time for an upgrade.

What is the most recent toast that will work on my MacBook running 10.5osx.

Well I had already tried toast 11 and it frequently froze my computer.