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I can burn a data DVD on macOS Catalina but getting a movie DVD burned is escaping me. Is this possible without additional software?

A VIDEO_TS folder is what I am looking to burn. VLC plays this perfectly including displaying the DVD menu. How can I burn this to a DVD?

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No. Sadly, since Apple discontinued iDVD, there is no built-in way to burn a movie DVD.

Burn is an excellent free utility for creating audio, video and file storage on optical media.

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iMovie used to have "Burn to DVD". iDVD let you do this and create a menu system. But sadly those features are all gone. Most computers no longer have a DVD/Blu-Ray burner/reader anymore.

Roxio Toast (commercial software ... so this ruins the "without additional software" part of your question) still seems to support this. If you bomb out on no-cost options... this might be a (non-free) solution.

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This is extra tools, but they should be free, so I think that might be OK in some cases. From a reddit page:

# tools:
brew install dvdauthor dvdrtools

# Convert to MPEG-2
ffmpeg -i input.file -threads 16 -aspect 16:9 -target ntsc-dvd out.mpg

# Demux into VIDEO_TS/AUDIO_TS structure:
VIDEO_FORMAT=NTSC dvdauthor -o directory -t out.mpg

# Create table of contents IFO
VIDEO_FORMAT=NTSC dvdauthor -o directory -T

# Create ISO
mkisofs -dvd-video -V VOLUME -o out.iso directory/

# Burn (or maybe rather use macOS's "Burn to Disc..." GUI feature)
hdiutil burn out.iso

Using an Apple SuperDrive, my first attempt failed, ruining the DVD+R disc, at the hdiutil burn step. It seemed to burn happily, but when it was trying to finish the burn some errors were reported:

Burn failed The disc drive didn’t respond properly and can’t recover or retry. The disc drive didn’t respond properly and can’t recover or retry. hdiutil: burn failed - Not a directory

On second try with the same iso, I chose to right click on the iso file and chose "Burn to Disc...", using the GUI of macOS to burn to a disc with the same brand of DVD+R disc as the first attempt. This time the burn was successful as I could playback the video in a standalone Panasonic Blu-ray drive. However macOS reported error when verifying the disc. The discs I am using having been lying around for 15 or some years so that could have something to do with it.

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I can burn a data DVD on MacOS Catalina but getting a movie DVD burned is escaping me. Is this possible without additional software? A VIDEO_TS folder is what I am looking to burn.

Yes, it is possible to burn a VIDEO_TS to DVD (that will play in standard DVD players) without the use of any third-party software in Catalina. The following steps were tested under macOS 10.15.7 and Disk Utility 19.0 (1704):

  1. Disk Utility → File → New Image → Image from Folder…
  2. Select the parent folder of VIDEO_TS (which should not contain anything other than the VIDEO_TS directory) → Choose
  3. Enter desired filename and location for the new disk image → select "DVD/CD master" as the Image Format → Save
  4. Once the disk image has been saved, right click it in Finder and select "Burn Disk Image 'foo.cdr' to Disc…" → Burn

On a 7.4GB test directory, Disk Utility created a disk image of 8.55GB, while hdiutil created a disk image of just 7.4GB in one step:

hdiutil makehybrid -udf -udf-volume-name foo -o foo.iso /path/to/parent/dir/of/VIDEO_TS

(As above, the VIDEO_TS parent directory should not contain anything else.)

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