DVD player

I have an iMac and DVD player does not recognise format of a CD on which I have burned a video.

I searched on line and found this suggestion below but when I clicked on CD in disk utility there is no option for "New Image".

The CD is a DVD-R. Can anyone help on how I can play this CD on my iMac?

Many thanks

Alistair

If you do not already have a properly formatted disc image you have to first create a special disc image of the DVD you are copying. You can use the Disc Utility application to do so. Open Disc Utility. Select the disc you want to copy. Then select the "New Image" button in the top menu bar. In the dialog box that occurs make sure you chose the "Image format option": "DVD/CD Master". Select the location on your Mac where you want the disc image to be created. Then click create. This will create an image with ".cdr" extension at the end. It will take a while to do so.

After it is done creting the "cdr" image, in the left hand column in Disk Utility select the "cdr" image you just created. Then control click that "cdr" image. In the resulting contectual menu select "burn disc". Insert a blank DVD and click "burn". This will burn a movie DVD that has the right coding in it that will automatically play on you Mac when you put it in. You won't notice any difference in this type of DVD versus the type you burn directly from the Finder. They both have exactly the same video files and folders in them. But the one burned from Disk Utilities will play automatically and the one burned from the finder won't.