[MacDV] DVDs only work on some computers: please help

[Rod Duncan]

As Nick mentioned, sounds like a faulty burner issue. Have you tried 
burning those same media files to another burner. Anyone you know 
have an external firewire burner? Have you tried the disk in other 
stand alone DVD players? Real cheap models can be fussy with media. 
Do audio CD's play properly in other players?

Elizabeth, you didn't mention in your original post if the failure to 
play was a software only issue. Does the DVD mount?  DVD player is 
extremely media fussy. DVD player will launch with an "Unsupported 
Media" flag. Whereas the freeware video player VLC  v0.8.5 will play 
whatever media DVD Player refuses. It always plays Verbatim DVD-RW's 
- so it can be a software issue and not hardware.

I never use Memorex. Been burned (pun intended) one time too many. 
They have the lowest quality control - read online they buy from the 
cheapest suppliers and don't manufacture in house. Apple recommends 
Verbatim or TDK. As mentioned, I use Verbatim DVD-RW and they play 
perfectly - regardless of DVD player used. I have three DVD burners 
in different Mac's and two stand alone DVD's. Not all burners deliver 
the same quality. Not impressed with Apple's cost saving measures to 
go with MatSHITa (the name says it all) burner/drives in their 
computers. Still prefer my external Pioneer 110D burner for the most 
reliable operation. I use the BeAll DVD-R brand more as a printer 
based choice as they have the largest inkjet printable surface and, 
for the most part, don't have a high failure rate. For data only 
DVD's anything but Memorex.

It can be frustrating. Good luck.

Rod


>I used to use TDK and Memorex but switched to Taiyo Yuden for CDRs 
>and DVD-Rs and now have zero bad disks!
>
>Frank Fitzpatrick,
>Grovelingly Humble, yet still arrogant (and non-contradictory)
>Master of All Trades, Jack of None [Trademark]
>
>On Jun 11, 2006, at 6:23 PM, Gerhard wrote:
>
>>I use to always use Ritek but there were a few people that always 
>>seemed to have trouble playing the disks maybe 4 or 5 out of 100, I 
>>now use Sony and Philips disks and have not heard of any disks that 
>>don't play.
>>
>>Gerhard
>>
>>On Jun 11, 2006, at 6:14 PM, Colt Freeman wrote:
>>
>>>I've had great luck with memorex, and you can burn at 4x minimum not 1. Also
>>>make sure to use dvd-r
>>>
>>>
>>>On 6/11/06 5:40 PM, "Nick Scalise" <nickscalise at cox.net> wrote:
>>>
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