Eli N
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Q: On my Mac (vers 10.7.5) I use Disk Utilites to burn a DVD. The DVD won't play on the Mac but will play on my Windows PC and on a DVD player. A DVD created on my PC will play on the Mac. Any ideas why this is happening?

On my Mac (vers 10.7.5) I use Disk Utilites to burn a DVD. The DVD won't play on my Mac but will play on my Windows PC and on a DVD player. A DVD created on my PC will play on the Mac. Any ideas why this is happening?

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.5), iMovie '11 Version 9.0.8

Posted on May 23, 2014 8:57 AM

by Bengt Wärleby,Solvedanswer
Bengt Wärleby Bengt Wärleby
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A:

400 SONY DVDs - AS VIDEO-DVDs ?

 

I only use Verbatim

 

And x2 BURN SPEED

 

Yours Bengt W

Posted on May 24, 2014 8:31 AM

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  • by Klaus1,

    Klaus1 Klaus1 May 23, 2014 3:56 PM in response to Eli N
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    May 23, 2014 3:56 PM in response to Eli N

    You cannot create a video DVD with Disk Utility. For that you need iDVD.

  • by Eli N,

    Eli N Eli N May 23, 2014 4:07 PM in response to Klaus1
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    May 23, 2014 4:07 PM in response to Klaus1

    Thanks Klaus but that's not true. I used iDVD to create an IMG file and then used Disk Utilty to burn DVD. This worked for 5 DVDs. They played fine on the Mac. The next 3 I burned DVDs did not play. Also, as I said before, those 3 dvds that didn't play on the Mac  did play on a Windows PC and a DVD player.

  • by Bengt Wärleby,

    Bengt Wärleby Bengt Wärleby May 23, 2014 11:12 PM in response to Eli N
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    May 23, 2014 11:12 PM in response to Eli N

    Hi

     

    This use to be due to one or both of these things

     

    • BURN SPEED - was not set as low possibly (Low Speed = FEW Burn Errors)

     

    • Use of Cheap Brand of DVD - Memorex, NoName etc - usually do not work when making VIDEO-DVDs

     

    (but there can be more reasons - Dusty DVD-Burner (I use a Cleaning disk). Low free space on Start-up Mac-Hard Disk, etc etc)

     

    Yours Bengt W

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad May 24, 2014 8:08 AM in response to Eli N
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    May 24, 2014 8:08 AM in response to Eli N

    I used iDVD to create an IMG file

    You created the video DVD, the IMG file, with iDVD and just burned it with Disk Utility. As Klaus1 pointed out Disk Utility can't create video DVDs.

     

     

    OT

  • by Eli N,

    Eli N Eli N May 24, 2014 8:11 AM in response to Bengt Wärleby
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    May 24, 2014 8:11 AM in response to Bengt Wärleby

    Thanks for your reply Bengt.

     

    I am using Sony DVDs and I've never had a problem with them. I have plenty of free space. I will get a cleaning disk and try that.

     

    Again the strange thing is that the burned disk plays fine on other devices, it won't play on any other Apple device. However disks created on my PC plays fine on the MAC.

  • by Bengt Wärleby,

    Bengt Wärleby Bengt Wärleby May 24, 2014 8:15 AM in response to Old Toad
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    May 24, 2014 8:15 AM in response to Old Toad

    It is stated :

     

    The DVD won't play on my Mac but will play on my Windows PC and on a DVD player.

     

    A DVD created on my PC will play on the Mac.

     

    There are a few NEW DVD-players that (seems to be able to) play DATA-DVDs - SO I assume that You've made a VIDEO-DVD.

     

    Then my suggestions stands. They use to be the most common error - sumerized as

     

    BURN ERRORS

     

    and they are reduced by

    • Slow burn speed

    • Clean DVD-burner

    • High quality of DVD media used

     

    Yours Bengt W

  • by Klaus1,

    Klaus1 Klaus1 May 24, 2014 8:21 AM in response to Eli N
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    May 24, 2014 8:21 AM in response to Eli N

    You're lucky. I have never been able to successfully burn a Sony DVD.

  • by Eli N,

    Eli N Eli N May 24, 2014 8:29 AM in response to Klaus1
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    May 24, 2014 8:29 AM in response to Klaus1

    I guess I am lucky. I've probably burned close to 400 Sony DVD-r disks with no problem what so ever.

  • by Bengt Wärleby,Solvedanswer

    Bengt Wärleby Bengt Wärleby May 24, 2014 8:31 AM in response to Eli N
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    May 24, 2014 8:31 AM in response to Eli N

    400 SONY DVDs - AS VIDEO-DVDs ?

     

    I only use Verbatim

     

    And x2 BURN SPEED

     

    Yours Bengt W

  • by Eli N,

    Eli N Eli N May 24, 2014 6:00 PM in response to Bengt Wärleby
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    May 24, 2014 6:00 PM in response to Bengt Wärleby

    Thanks Bengt,

     

    It appears that burning at 2x solved the problem. Weird how it just started acting up.

  • by Eli N,

    Eli N Eli N May 25, 2014 10:09 AM in response to Old Toad
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    May 25, 2014 10:09 AM in response to Old Toad

    Old Toad,

    I beg to differ. Unless I don't understand what a video DVD is, I created a IMG file using iDVD and burned that file to a DVD using Disk Utility. The burn created an Audio_TS and a Video_TS directory on the DVD. This DVD then plays on all devices with a DVD player.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad May 25, 2014 11:20 AM in response to Eli N
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    May 25, 2014 11:20 AM in response to Eli N

    It's a matter of symantics. iDVD creates the Video dvd file which is a dmg file.  iDVD burns that file to disk creating a Video DVD disk.

     

    No, burning the dmg file did not create the Video_TS folder. It was already in the dmg file.  Double click on the dmg file to mount it and look inside to see what I mean.

    Screen Shot 2014-05-25 at 11.13.40 AM.jpg

  • by Eli N,

    Eli N Eli N May 25, 2014 11:34 AM in response to Old Toad
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    May 25, 2014 11:34 AM in response to Old Toad

    I don't want to argue with you. I used iDVD to create a DVD project. I then saved the project as an IMG file. I then burned the IMG file to a DVD using Disk Utility.

     

    Screen Shot 2014-05-25 at 2.28.50 PM.png

  • by Bengt Wärleby,

    Bengt Wärleby Bengt Wärleby May 25, 2014 11:39 AM in response to Eli N
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    May 25, 2014 11:39 AM in response to Eli N

    Yes that's the way - many of us other does this as it keeps control to a maximum.

     

    And it is easy to set BURN SPEED this way too.

     

    But the structure for VIDEO-DVD is created in iDVD and that's one of the important things iDVD does. (and so can Roxio Toast, Burn, DVD Sudio Pro, Compressor, Adobe Encore etc etc)

     

    But no-one can from a movie file on desktop/Finder - Burn a Video-DVD DIRECTLY - it will be a Data-DVD - and very few Stand alone DVD-player can play this (only from last Year or newer - I GUESS)

     

    Yours Bengt W