kia ora all - hello from nz

after many many burns my internal cd/dvd writer has called it quits - so i purchased a Macpower peripherals Prefect II cd/dvd external storage enclosure for 5.25" Optical Devices ie external writer.It does not have disc installation for macs- just shows up on screen when you put in cd or dvd

my problem is that while i can burn music cds fine in iTunes i can not burn dvds - it seems that the default setting is 40 MBs so whenever i go to burn movies it says there is not enough space on the disc

so far i have not been able to change this setting - i have been all over my iMac Power PC G5 trying to change this setting and as yet have been unable to

i am sure it is something reasonably simple that i am just not seeing

can anybody help me Please ?? it is really vexing me.I have tried phoning the shop i bought it from but there is a language barrier making it very difficult to explain

any help in getting thedvd writer working properly would be very gratefully accepted

thanks very much

Lee
aotearoha new zealand

Best burner software for Mac is Toast. Toast Titanium. It has great audio, image & video burning options. Version 10 was just released but any version from 7 upward would be good for you I suspect. The later the version, the more disk writers it has compatibility with, such as newer released ones. Get a hold of this program. You will not regret it, it is the very best one & always has been the best one for Mac, even before OSX was around. Arguably better than the Windows Nero burner program (Toast was around before Nero was).

For Mac machines, you do need to check disk burners have Mac OSX drivers.

One option is a utility called Patchburn (click on link), which adds some compatibility for some burner drives. Oops just went to that site & it says no version for Leopard. Need to check with author about that, perhaps you can contact them.
* Edit: I used Patchburner for my G4 with Panther/Tiger. It worked well with Toast.

kia ora & many thanks - i will go looking for that driver now at the link

i have heard Toast is a great program & am chasing it up here

thanks again - i am determined to get this burner to work & burn dvds