Why do some burned DVDs display a folder icon instead of DVD disc icon?

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Why do some burned DVDs display a folder icon instead of DVD disc icon?

I have a Sony DVD-VCR combo recorder, and just finalized a DVD from a VCR dub. The disc plays fine on my Mac, on any set-top DVD player...

However, Disk Utility or any other third party DVD copy program that I have tried will not copy the disc. I get an input/output error.

Furthermore, when the disc is inserted and mounted on my iMac, the icon is of a standard blue folder with a red minus sign icon in the lower left, instead of the usual DVD disc icon.

I'm sure this is related to my problem. Is this behavior specific to the Sony device? RDR-VX530. Why won't a standard DVD icon appear? Other burned DVDs from other machines work as expected (proper icon and all).

iMac 17" 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo 2GB SDRAM, Mac OS X (10.4.8), iPod G5 30GB, Canon Pixma iP1600, Canon CanoScan LiDE30

Posted on Jun 9, 2007 9:23 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 9, 2007 3:55 PM in response to jmdev24

Hi,

To me it sounds like your Sony combo device has imposed some weird permissions on your disc. Can you view the contents of the DVDs in the Finder? If so, then I would simply suggest copying the Video_TS folder onto a blank DVD, and I'm pretty sure this will play back as normal. So far as I know, burning a Video_TS folder to DVD as a Data Disc will suffice to have it play back on a DVD player - in fact you can even burn a Video_TS folder to a CD as data and have it play back on a DVD Player, I did it once using Toast with a really small movie I made. Otherwise, you may have to use the Terminal and use sudo to get the contents and copy them somewhere you can store them before then burning them to a fresh DVD.

Good luck,

SiR G.

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Answer 2

Jun 9, 2007 4:55 PM in response to jmdev24

If you can read the VIDEO_TS folder, use DVD Imager
<http://lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/applescript/dvdimager.html>
to make a disk image file, in UDF format, that you can burn with Disk Utility. Other ways of burning a VIDEO_TS folder often produce disks that will not play on many DVD players.

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