Members LiveMusic Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 A friend video taped a show on his camcorder. He burned me a copy. Let's assume he has a Windows computer. Odds are, he does. I don't have a DVD player in my computer. My bro has a Mac G4. It rejects the disk; it won't play it. Is there likely some kind of Win / Mac conflict here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TimOBrien Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 Will the DVD play in ANYTHING else??? Never assume its your computer. Most likely the disk was not finalized properly; his fault not yours. Check it on another playback device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members where02190 Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 Agreed, it is most likely a disc error or some kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 My father burned me a DVD on his relatively new PC. It plays fine on my PC, but on my five and a half year old Mac, instead of the menu showing, I get a display of all the various files. When I click on those files, the videos play perfectly fine. That's the worst problem I've ever had with cross-platform video DVDs, and have never had a problem with data DVDs of any kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LiveMusic Posted December 28, 2006 Author Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 I found another DVD he burned from a few days ago which DID play fine on an el cheapo portable DVD player. The Mac rejects it, as well. It never gives an error, it just ejects it after several seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ed A. Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 Earlier Macs will only play one format type of DVD. I don't remember if it's the DVD+R or DVD-R format, but the DVD that was recorded on the PC is probably not of the format that the Mac will read. Newer Macs will work with both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ultravibe Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 Yeah, depends on the drive you have in there. You can check your system information and do a little Googling on the drive model#. It usually isn't terribly difficult to replace the CD/DVD drive. (Not total cake like replacing them in a desktop, but still not too hard.) Drew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 Just to reiterate -- the finalizing step is crucial in getting a disk that will play "around." I use a set-top box to record old movies off the "air" (thank you, Fair Use provision of the MCA) and if they aren't "finalized" they won't play in most other players or either of my computers. The file lists DO show up. Once finalized successfully they seem to play okay in my computers. (I DID have problems playing at least a disc or two I burned on my laptop's built in DVD+R -- which is probably at least a 4 year old design -- in my new 16x DVD-/+R.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members where02190 Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 Older Macs will only play DVD-R, not DVD+R, and may not read the formatting properly as well, depending on what OS you are running. Try opening it in Quicktime or the OSX DVD player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members seclusion Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 Make sure it's not a dual layer either.The G4 DVD roms can't plsy emLater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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