Burning DVD to be read on pc & mac

mtutaj · June 29th, 2005

Have a question that I have been tring to figure out here for a while. Have a final presentation that is completed. created the DVD menus with DVD Architecture and burned it to a DVD-R & DVD+R disk. as far as I can tell, all the dvd players that I have put them both in as well as all the pc's i have can read both disks. but when I put it in the clients mac, it acts like we didn't even put in the disk.

any ideas?

Thanks,

Mike

AJLynn · June 29th, 2005

It doesn't do anything at all when you put it in? Not even an error message? And it's just this one computer? Sounds like the computer might have a broken DVD drive.

mtutaj · June 29th, 2005

I am planning on taking it over to one of my other clients who has a mac laptop just collecting dust. Don't know why he ever bought it. been sitting for over a year. and see if it gives me any indication on if its the discs. I thought that I read somewhere that mac's are primarily DVD-R compatable.

Mike

Bugga_Guy · June 29th, 2005

DVD's are trickey.. This happened to me awhile ago when I made a DVD gave it to a client, and it wouldn't play on his home DVD player. It played on all Computer DVD roms here at the office. Then I read an article on older DVD drives/players may not play burnt DVDs. Its just a matter of brand and age of that component.

mtutaj · June 29th, 2005

It works on everything but mac laptops (havn't tried a desktop version)

thats the issue

Mike

Chad Warner · June 29th, 2005

My wife has a mac laptop with a dvd player in it, and it will play all of our dvd-r's without any problem.

mtutaj · June 29th, 2005

I had read in a couple of places that DVD-R was the media to use.. What OS for the mac do you have?

Chad Warner · June 29th, 2005

OS-X. I'm not sure which update.

agatsuma · July 1st, 2005

Older Macs require DVD-R

June 29th, 2005	#1 (permalink)
mtutaj Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 404 Name: Mike Tutaj	Burning DVD to be read on pc & mac Have a question that I have been tring to figure out here for a while. Have a final presentation that is completed. created the DVD menus with DVD Architecture and burned it to a DVD-R & DVD+R disk. as far as I can tell, all the dvd players that I have put them both in as well as all the pc's i have can read both disks. but when I put it in the clients mac, it acts like we didn't even put in the disk. any ideas? Thanks, Mike

June 29th, 2005	#2 (permalink)
AJLynn Moderator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Beantown Age: 30 Posts: 4,550 Name: Andrew Lynn	Re: Burning DVD to be read on pc & mac It doesn't do anything at all when you put it in? Not even an error message? And it's just this one computer? Sounds like the computer might have a broken DVD drive.

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mtutaj Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 404 Name: Mike Tutaj	Re: Burning DVD to be read on pc & mac I am planning on taking it over to one of my other clients who has a mac laptop just collecting dust. Don't know why he ever bought it. been sitting for over a year. and see if it gives me any indication on if its the discs. I thought that I read somewhere that mac's are primarily DVD-R compatable. Mike

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Bugga_Guy Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Toronto Age: 31 Posts: 357 Name: Brian Zidovec	Re: Burning DVD to be read on pc & mac DVD's are trickey.. This happened to me awhile ago when I made a DVD gave it to a client, and it wouldn't play on his home DVD player. It played on all Computer DVD roms here at the office. Then I read an article on older DVD drives/players may not play burnt DVDs. Its just a matter of brand and age of that component.

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mtutaj Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 404 Name: Mike Tutaj	Re: Burning DVD to be read on pc & mac It works on everything but mac laptops (havn't tried a desktop version) thats the issue Mike

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Chad Warner Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Savannah, GA Posts: 1,469 Name: Chad Warner	Re: Burning DVD to be read on pc & mac My wife has a mac laptop with a dvd player in it, and it will play all of our dvd-r's without any problem.

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mtutaj Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 404 Name: Mike Tutaj	Re: Burning DVD to be read on pc & mac I had read in a couple of places that DVD-R was the media to use.. What OS for the mac do you have?

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Chad Warner Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Savannah, GA Posts: 1,469 Name: Chad Warner	Re: Burning DVD to be read on pc & mac OS-X. I'm not sure which update.

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agatsuma Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NY Posts: 9 Name: lorin roser	Re: Burning DVD to be read on pc & mac Older Macs require DVD-R

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