IDVD is a discontinued DVD-creation application for Mac OS X produced by Apple Inc. IDVD allows the user to burn QuickTime movies, MP3 music, and digital photos to a DVD that can then be played on a commercial DVD player. It was often considered the last step of Apple's iLife suite, bringing together the results of all of the other iLife apps onto a removable medium.
| Developer(s) | Apple Inc. |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 7.1.2 / July 11, 2011; 9 years ago |
| Operating system | Mac OS X |
| Type | DVD creation software |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | iDVD |
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iDVD is a discontinued[1]DVD-creation application for Mac OS X produced by Apple Inc. iDVD allows the user to burn QuickTime movies, MP3 music, and digital photos to a DVD that can then be played on a commercial DVD player. It was often considered the last step of Apple'siLife suite, bringing together the results of all of the other iLife apps onto a removable medium.
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Dvd 2 On Mac
While initially available only for Macs with a SuperDrive, it was included until 2011 with all new Macs; from iDVD 6 onwards, Apple supported the ability to burn projects with third-party optical drives. iDVD was no longer preinstalled on Macs shipping with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, and was not available on the Mac App Store with all of the other iLife apps. It was, however, still available in the boxed copy of iLife '11, until the release of iLife '13.[2]It is no longer functional on macOS 10.15+ due to lack of 64-bit support.
Description[edit]
iDVD included over 100 Apple-designed themes for DVD menus and submenus, which allowed for the easy creation of DVD menu systems. Each theme included 'drop zones,' onto which movies or photographs could be placed, some of which could be animated automatically. Any theme could be applied to each of the menus in an iDVD project.[3]
iDVD integrated tightly with the rest of the iLife suite, as well as with Final Cut Express and Final Cut Pro. iMovie projects and iPhoto slideshows could be exported directly to iDVD. In the case of iMovie projects, scene selection menus were automatically created in accordance with chapter markers that were set within iMovie. The application also had a Media panel that provided access to the user's iTunes library, iPhoto library and Movies folder at any time. It also provided a map view, which showed a flow chart of the project's menu system.[4] Another feature was the ability to hide or show an approximation of the 'TV-safe area' (as old televisions often cut off some of a video's outer areas). iDVD also incorporated a 'One-Step DVD' function, which would automatically rewind the currently connected DVcamcorder and burn a DVD of the video footage stored on the tape.
iDVD shipped with fonts (located at /Applications/iDVD.app/Contents/Resources/Fonts) that were not installed, to prevent them from being available to other applications by default.
Version history[edit]
| iLife | Version | Release date | New Features | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iLife | iDVD | January 9, 2001 | ||
| iLife | iDVD 2 | July 18, 2001 | Motion menus | |
| iLife | iDVD 3 | January 7, 2003 |
| Bundled as part of iLife '03 |
| iLife '04 | iDVD 4 | January 6, 2004 |
| Bundled as part of iLife '04 |
| iLife '05 | iDVD 5 | January 11, 2005 |
| Bundled as part of iLife '05. Incompatible with later versions of Mac OS X 10.5 |
| iLife '06 | iDVD 6 | January 10, 2006 | Change of aspect ratio (the user can choose to create a widescreen project) | Bundled as part of iLife '06. First Universal binary version. Refined look based on iTunes 5 and 6. |
| iLife '08 | iDVD 7.0 | August 7, 2007 | Themes from iDVD 1 and iDVD 2 restored | Bundled as part of iLife '08 |
| iLife '09 | iDVD 7.0.3 | January 27, 2009 | None | Bundled as part of iLife '09 |
| iLife '11 | iDVD 7.1 | October 20, 2010 | None | Bundled as part of iLife '11 |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'Apple Support Communities - Where is iDVD on my new Mac - August 21, 2011'. Retrieved October 25, 2012.
- ^'Apple - MacBook Pro - All the reasons why you'll love a Mac'. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
- ^'Apple - iMac - Comes with software you'll love to use'. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
- ^'Apple - MacBook Air - Apps you need and want are already included'. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
libdvdcss is a simple library designed for accessing DVDs like a block device without having to bother about the decryption.
Features
- Portability. Currently supported platforms are GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku, Mac OS X, Solaris, QNX, OS/2, and Windows NT 4.0 SP4 (with IE 5.0) or later.
- Simplicity. A DVD player can be built around the
libdvdcssAPI using no more than 4 or 5 library calls. - Freedom.
libdvdcssis released under the General Public License, ensuring it will stay free, and used only for free software products. - Just better. Unlike most similar projects,
libdvdcssdoes not require the region of your drive to be set.
Get libdvdcss
The latest version of libdvdcss is 1.4.2.
On Debian and Ubuntu, you can install libdvdcss via libdvd-pkg helper package:
And by running the following command, which will download, build and install the latest libdvdcss source to your machine:
libdvdcss is available through Git or by browsing the releases.
Git checkout
You can also access the code online.
Changelog and Documentation
You can see the release notes and the change log.
| Document | Status | Download | Maintainer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Libdvdcss API documentation | Up-to-date | HTML | Generated by Doxygen |
Additional Information
Dvd Shrink 3.2 For Mac
If you want to read more on this subject, we publish a non-technical description of libdvdcss.
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