[MacDV] Re: DVD Player not playing

Kochkodin kochkodin at verizon.net
Sun Jan 18 07:47:35 PST 2004


You are correct Sir!!! (as Ed McMahon used to say to the Great 
Karnac)!!!   Using an imac SE 400 and/or Pismo 400 w/a LaCie DVD 
burner...+R burns will not play in either of these systems, but will 
play in any other systems  (An Apex desktop, a Phillips desktop 
player/burner and a Polaroid compact 7" player)...The +R's are ejected 
from both computers..Along w/+RW's, they will mount in the LaCie but 
will not run at all....I got a pack of -R's yesterday to try and they 
will work in the computers....The drawback that I have found is that the 
-R's are only 1X vs the 2x of the  +R's...The DVD's are all 
Verbatim's...No coasters after burning a bunch succssfully...Sam's club 
sells the +R's for about $1.50 each and the -R's for about $1.90.... I 
think WalMart's price for 3 -R's is about $10.00
Regards,
Mike K

Mark M. Florida wrote:
> My hunch is that the problem is caused by the disc media -- is it a DV+R 
> ("PLUS R") disc, by chance?  You should be able to tell either by the 
> printing on the top of the disc (pretty obvious), or if that's covered 
> up with a label or printing, then check the tiny type around the center 
> ring of the disc.  If it *is* a +R disc, try copying the VIDEO_TS folder 
> to the desktop, then point DVD Player there for playback.  Then, if you 
> want, after doing that, you can re-burn it to a DVD-R ("DASH R")...
> 
> I just found this hint on macosxhints.com:
> 
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031228200948977



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