[G4] Pioneer wont play burned dvd's

[mgilman]

VLC is working!!!
Thanks!


On 6/22/06 9:06 PM, "Philip J Robar" <philip.robar at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jun 22, 2006, at 5:37 PM, James Asherman wrote:
> 
>> I think maybe the problem is that he hasn't done the firmware patch
>> for his new drive and older OS. Can't play the PC +R's . right ?
>> Could maybe Phil throw him the patchburn link ?
> 
> mgilman didn't say what type of media he was trying to read or even
> what type of file he was trying to play so I gave him the best
> generic advice I could. Having the latest firmware is a good idea,
> but lacking any other information I just assumed that he could see
> the drive and it's contents, but that Quicktime or DVD Player
> wouldn't play it.
> 
> Patchburn doesn't have anything to do with play back. Quoting from
> the FAQ:
> 
> Q: Does PatchBurn 3 give me support for viewing video DVDs?
> A: No, all reading capabilities are enabled in Mac-OS X by default.
> PatchBurn has no influence on that. If your drive does not read
> DVDs or CDs, there must be another hardware problem e.g. wrong
> jumper settings, defective cable or defective drive.
> 
> Older DVD drives had various problems with various flavors of write-
> able medial, but the DVD110D that mgilman has is only one release old
> and certainly reads all current DVD media.
> 
> 
> Phil
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