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Trying to watch a home video burned onto a DVD-R disc with Superdrive, my MacBook Pro is not recognizing the content on the disc -- disk utility says the disc is Uninitialized & all the action icons are greyed out. Commercial movie DVDs work but cannot get my Mac to recognize any DVD-R discs, even blank ones. What is the problem?
MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
I would suspect that the software utilized to burn the home video did not create a properly formatted video file/disk. Since the commercially burned disks do work.
On the other hand, you indicate that even blank DVD-R disks aren't recognized - inserting a blank DVD-R should result in a pop up window asking you to provide label, after a few seconds delay. Note that commercial disks are made on DVD-R media so your computer is recognizing DVD-R's. If you can't work with blank DVD-R's, then your SuperDrive might be broken. Have you tried using the SuperDrive on another computer?
I would suspect that the software utilized to burn the home video did not create a properly formatted video file/disk. Since the commercially burned disks do work.
On the other hand, you indicate that even blank DVD-R disks aren't recognized - inserting a blank DVD-R should result in a pop up window asking you to provide label, after a few seconds delay. Note that commercial disks are made on DVD-R media so your computer is recognizing DVD-R's. If you can't work with blank DVD-R's, then your SuperDrive might be broken. Have you tried using the SuperDrive on another computer?
Did you burn this disc yourself, or did you receive it from someone?
Do you know what software was used to burn this DVD-R?
Do you know if this was supposed to be in DVD-Video format, or a different format?
The DVD was not properly formatted, I have figured out how to format it and now it is working. Thank you
Reading DVDs with Superdrive
