MY IDVD BURNT DISC WILL NOT PLAY ON ANY OTHER DVD PLAYERS

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MY IDVD BURNT DISC WILL NOT PLAY ON ANY OTHER DVD PLAYERS

Hi ,can anyone help me out as to why my finished iDVD project wont play on any DVD players? It keeps saying-NO DISC ?

I dont know where im going wrong but it playes fine on my macs DVD player & my 2 DVD players are newish,1 of them is a vhs/dvd combi & thats brand new so i cant workout why i cant play my iDVDs ,can anyone shed some light & help me workout why please

Im using blank DVD-R & DVD-RW,I just cant work out why this is happening

macbook white 120gig-2009/iMac27inch-2010/TimeCapsule 1TB, Mac OS X (10.6.3), macbook white 120GIG /iMac27 1TB/TCAPSULE 1TB

Posted on Oct 18, 2010 6:57 AM

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Answer 1

SDMacuser

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Oct 18, 2010 8:42 PM in response to spiritlevel

Dvd-RW has a lower reflectivity than say Verbatim or Maxell DVD-R. Not usually a problem for most macs. But set top dvd players are a different story. They typically aren't as forgiving of this lower reflective surface on the dvd as your mac. Might want to try using Dvd-R instead and burning no higher than 4x.

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Answer 2

Oct 18, 2010 11:24 PM in response to spiritlevel

Hi

This is due to
• brand of DVD
• type of DVD
• burn speed
• and eventually - free space on start-up hard disk - very low and iDVD get's funny.

I use
• Verbatim
• DVD-R (no +R or +/-RW)
• x4 or x1 burn speed
• I never go under 25Gb free space on Start-up/ Mac OS hard disk (< 2GB and iDVD
gets strange)

Yours Bengt W

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spiritlevel Author

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Oct 20, 2010 8:06 PM in response to Bengt Wärleby

Thankyou all for your advice ,I think the lack of space may be the problem,im very greatfull for all your help from everyone,many,many thanks

Also i put a proper bought DVD of a MJ film & it still said NO DISC so I think it could be my dvd player too .

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Answer 4

Oct 20, 2010 11:24 PM in response to spiritlevel

A DVD-Cleaning disk - can also be of use. I do. From time to time.

Yours Nengt W

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