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i am entirely too retarded to use idvd/imovie/anything good for dvd-burning, from what i can tell.

so, i have a question: can i just burn .avi files to dvd as data? and then just open up the files from the dvd individually in VLC or whatever, without having fancy menus and things? that way i can skip idvd entirely. plus it seems like i can fit a lot more on a dvd that way - with idvd it wouldn't let me add more than 4 350MB files to a disc, which seems ridic since the discs hold over 4 gigs.

it seems like a reasonable assumption but i'm not positive and i don't want to waste my time here. i keep googling to try and figure this out for myself, but i'm failing wildly.

help?

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you should be able to. you might have to format the dvd for "storage" first... depends on the dvd type and the computer. but then you should be able to copy files to it. i haven't tried it with a mac, but it works on my PCs.

when you stick the dvd in your mac, does it show up sort of like a drive in your main list? or on your desktop?

the size thing is probably because idvd is formatting the videos to be watched on a television.