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FYI: The Hurz and Pfurz files are from inside Apple, and as others have surmised, they were developed for in-house use and testing. Even while working at Apple we were discouraged from using them, because...
The reason iDVD is limited to work only with internal DVD burners is because of MPEG2 licencing issues. Apple would be more than happy for people to use iDVD to make DVDs, but then iDVD would have to ship with an MPEG2 licence, which costs real money. Since iDVD is free, and available for download, they had to come up with a solution. Their solution was to ship a MPEG2 licence with the internal DVD burner, then limit iDVD to only work with internal DVDs. Since they charge for the burner, they can recover the licence cost that way. External DVD burners don't ship with MPEG2 licences. So don't blame Apple :-) Blame the MPEG licencing org (and probably the MPAA, since we'd like to think they're at faul somehow).
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good info but why not charge for a plugin like they do for quicktime mpeg2? |
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