DVD created by Toast-DVD not readable

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DVD created by Toast-DVD not readable

As a test case, I dragged a .mov clip and a .MPG clip into the Toast DVD 2.4.3 Content Area, with Video button pushed and DVD-Video drop down chosen. On the right, Options is chosen, Format is DVD-Video, and Menu Style is no menus. Quality is Good, and I selected Auto-play, and Play continuously. Destination Disk Image. Hit the red Save button. It makes the disk image document. Click that and get the disk image. When I burn a DVD-R disc from either (using the Finder pop up menu), it plays on my Mac, but not on my Sony Blu-ray player, which is good at reading discs normally. Any thoughts?

All of this is in the North America region, using NTSC. MacOS is ver 10.15.7.

Mac mini, 10.11

Posted on Oct 30, 2020 12:56 PM

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Rich839

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Oct 30, 2020 8:54 PM in response to Richard Hicks

Others on this forum have recommended a DVD authoring program made by Peng GUIPING and is called DVD Creator and is available in the app store for $14.99. You might want to try that one and see if you can burn DVDs that will play.

-- Rich

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Rich839

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Oct 30, 2020 3:01 PM in response to Richard Hicks

Hi, Richard,

This looks more like a Toast or Sony Blu-ray player issue than an iMovie issue. I don't use Toast, so cannot comment on its functionality or settings.

Is it possible that you burned a data DVD rather than an authored movie DVD? If so, the data DVD might not play on a DVD player unless the player has settings for it. If this isn't the issue I'll defer to others who might chime in here with some suggestions.

-- Rich

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Answer 3

Oct 30, 2020 3:56 PM in response to Rich839

I tend to think it is a Toast issue, or, more likely, operator problem. I have now tried to read my DVDs on a separate Sony BluRay player, again with no success. So it is not a defective player. The Toast documentation claims it can make DVDs for set top boxes. Still a mystery.

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DVD created by Toast-DVD not readable

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