[Slinger]

Is there really no way to use iDVD on my little G3 sporting iBook? I know I wouldn't be able to burn DVDs directly from my mac, but having just bought iLife '04, I was hoping for the best.
Thanks

[ftaok]

You're correct. iDVD won't work with your G3 iBook, but you can burn DVDs. Any DVD burner (external) you buy should come with software. There are software packages that have DVD authoring that is compatible with the G3. Toast 6, for example. The only thing is that it's not as slick as iDVD. Plus, with the G3, encoding will take a long, long, long time.

[sjrsimac]

i would suggest sticking to VCDs. i have tried, unsucessfully, to make them, although i did learn a few things.
you need to convert the video to MPEG-1 or MPEG-2, as you would for DVDs. then you burn that video onto a normal CD that holds around 750MB, and it should play in any standard DVD player.
to my knowledge, Toast 6 is required to do the job. i stopped b/c the project wasn't worth the price of Toast to me.

[braindoc]

iDVD is reserved for G4 and Apple's Superdrive or the Pioneer equivalent. It doesn't work at all on a G3 iBook, I tried. I ended up getting Toast for that purpose.
I use Toast regularly to create my own DVD. I can vouch that on a 900 G3 iBook it is still painfully slow but will work. That said I did my latest projects using iDVD on a G5 and it was easy and fast. The result is much better than anything less than 1/5 of the $1000+ software (DVD Pro/Final Cut Pro).