My husband and I are creating a DVD in IDVD which we have done successfully on my macbook . It plays fine on my computer and on dvd players.. But it won't play on my husbands computer which is on Mavericks.it just says supported disk not found. it will play in VLC but we really need it to play in DVD player on computes with Mavericks. Anyone having the same problem? have you found ways around it?
Hi
DVD doesn't play
Most common origin to this are:
Brand of DVD used - NoName, Memorex etc cheap brands might work as Data-DVDs - BUT NOT as Video-DVDs
I only use Verbatim - More organic dye in them. (There are other to try too as Taiyo Yuden (may be wrongly spelled))
Type of DVD used - I only use SL-DVD-R as they also playback on older DVD-players. DVD+R for newer DVD-players. Never ever DVD+/-RW. Dual-Layers usually creates more problems than Single-Layers
BURN SPEED - Very IMPORTANT factor - I never go faster than x4 - Normally I use x2
Material used - Video Codec, Photo and Audio file formats
Video-Codec: StreamingDV, AIC and HDV (I use)
Photo: .jpg - NO .bmp or other - all converted to .jpg first
Audio: .aiff 16-bit 48kHz or 44.1kHz (as on Audio-CDs) - NO .mp3, wma etc ailient formats - all converted to ..aiff 16-bit 48kHz or 44.1kHz first
Free Space: on Start-Up (Macintosh HD) Hard Disk - I never go less than 25Gb when doing Video-DVDs (for SD-Quality Video - if HD material is used 4-5 times more are a safe low level) (Other external Hard Disks - DO NOT COUNT as space here can not be addressed by Mac OS or iDVD for it’s massive use of .temp files)
Dusty DVD-burner Laser: I use a Cleaning DVD (no liquid but the one with brushes) from time to time.
Harmed DVD-burner Laser: Easy to do by burning more than three DVDs at a time - I let it rest for 30 minutes till next batch of three DVDs. If this happened - then only a costly repair will help. It will not heal by it self.
OBS: There are more than one Laser in the DVD-Burner so other functions might work OK as Playback CD/DVDs and even burn CDs. Still being broken.
Yours Bengt W
Sometimes the most obvious are missed.
added to the previous not:
DVD label - DO NOT Apply any sticky DVD-label (or any thing) on a DVD disk
- USE Inc.-jet printable DVDs instead.
Why not: The DVD will be just a minimal bit out of balance and when rotating this will in worst case destroy the DVD-player (some breaks easily other stands it for a short while) and the DVD disk will play BAD to not at all. AND the label is nearly impossibly to unglue without harming the DVD.
alt. Use a soft felt-pen instead to mark / label Your disk.
Yours Bengt W
DVD created in iDVD won't work in Mavericks
