Burned DVD's rejected by other computers

Using my Intel iMac, I burned two DVD's from iPhoto. One to be viewed in iPhoto and one for veiwing in Finder. Both of these disks were rejected by my sister's macbookPro. They don't mount but just eject. What's going on here?

1. The burn was faulty
Or
2. The drive on your sister's machine is faulty
Or
3. The media is faulty
Regards
TD

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Burned DVD is rejected by computer

Hello,
I have searched for a couple of hours now and cannot seem to find an answer to my question. I just burned a DVD using iDVD. The process finished, however, when I re-insert the dvd into my drive it spins up, then ejects the DVD without any warning or error message. The dvd will play in any DVD player other than a computer. This does not make any sense. I have tried twice now. I'm getting tired of wasting dvd's and 4-hours worth of rendering time. Any suggestions? (by the way, I'm a client support administrator so I know basic/advanced troubleshooting...so yes I have rebooted ).

I have the same problem and there is no solution as far as I know. The issue is with G5's not being able to play the DVD disk that it created. However, you will find that your G5-created DVD disk will play on G4's and on commercial DVD players. Likewise, commercially made DVD disks, like rental movies, and also DVD's created on a G4 will play on your G5. At least they do on my G5.
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DVDs burned in iDvd work in other devices, but not on my Mac!

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Burning to disk produces a "NDIF disk image" -- not what I would have expected. The burned disks work in my DVD player for the TV, and even work in a PC! But they aren't able to be read by my Mac! I get a "this disk is in a format your Mac doesn't recognize" type of error. Or if the disk goes in, it doesn't show up on the desktop.
I have tried just about everything. Burning directly to disk produces the same effect.
As a note, the Disk Utility recognizes there is a disk there!
Any suggestions? I'd really like burn DVDs that are readable on my Mac again (as well as everything else).

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I have been successfully using iDVD burning disk images and direct to DVD disc with not a single issue.
To conserve my main hard drive space I kept my iDVD templates on one of my other hard drives. Recently I was spring cleaning and inadvertently relocated the iDVD template library. Upon recently launching I realised this and reinstalled the templates.
So when I go to work I have every detail set up as usual and instruct iDVD to burn a disk image of the file so it's ready to burn to disk upon my return home from work. I have no idea why iDVD is now burning NDIF images. I have used Disk Utility to burn the image to a DVD and all seems to work fine, despite the seemingly slow verification process. After which "Your Disk has been burned Successfully."
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Why is it that my Intel Mini is capable of recognizing and playing my newly burned DVD from this strange and suddenly appearing NDIF image, while my PowerMac G4 Dual 867 which I have used to burn and play burned disks for a few years now, not recognize or play a burned DVD disk?

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Buy iDVD on Disk.
Yes, there are other programs that will put a movie on a DVD. I have tried most of the other substitutes including Toast, Burn, DVD Creator, Wondershare, and others. None of them come anywhere near the ease-of-use and power of iDVD. IDVD is specifically designed to work with iMovie.
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/idvd.html
With iDVD you can easily and quickly create DVDs with menus and graphics almost on the level of what Hollywood can do.
IDVD is easy to get. It is available on disk as part of iLife 11.
IDVD is a wonderful piece of software and well worth the low cost of $40. (works with all Mac OS 10.5 and newer.)
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MC623Z-A-iLife-VERSION/dp/B003XKRZES/ref=sr_1_1?ie=U
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Thanks for the reply Boece.
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I have tried these recorded DVD+Rs in older PC laptops that have had little trouble reading them. I have also tried them in other Macbooks, which have responded similarly to my macbook when inserted.
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Thanks for the reply Boece.
To answer your questions:
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Hi
No audio on DVD disc.
Most common origin.
1. Imported audio from iTunes.
• In iTunes copy out as an audio-CD .aiff
• Use this in Your movie project
2. Low - Free Space on Start-up/Boot/Internal/Mac OS Hard disk makes it hard for iMovie to work as intended.
Down to 1.3 GB and it doesn’t work - especially audio don’t migrate over to Media Browser
(iM’08 & 09)
3. Material in iMovie’08 & 09 - Shared to Media Browser and here selected as Large
large.m4v. It silenced out this project in iDVD. By making a slight alteration - provocing it to ask for a new Share/Publish to Media Browser and here selecting 640x480 - and audio was back when a new iDVD project was created including this movie.
176x144
480x360
640x480
720x540 960x540
4. Strange audio formats like .mp3, .avi etc.
• Change them to .aiff. Use an audio editor like Audacity (free)
5. Main audio is set to off in System Preferences - Does this by it self - Don’t know why
Cheque Audio-Out resp. Audio-In
6. Ed Hanna
Had the same problem; some Googling around gave me a kludgy, but effective fix
Downgrade Perian from recent versions back to version 1.0.
That worked for me, and so far I haven't encountered any deficiencies—except it takes more advanced versions of Perian to enable QuickTime to handle subtitles in .srt format—that I have noticed.
7. GarageBand fix.
In this set audio to 44.1 kHz (Klaus1 suggestion)
(if this don’t work try 48 kHz - me guessing)
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Burn at x1 speed.... (or x4)
• In iDVD 08 - or - 09
• Burn from DiskImage with Apple’s Disk Utilities application
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Yours Bengt W

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Hi again Steve,
SteveLasher wrote:
Thanks to everyone for your help and suggestions. I'm really just shaking my head here. I bought this Mac hoping things like this would be easier than on my old PC, but I hate to say I am really regretting ever getting this thing.
Hey, no problem... a pleasure, as always.
With regards to any regrets you may have in getting a Mac, I, nor anyone else here, can help you with that decision.
Your symptoms are genuine and are regrettable. I could repeat what I stated in my last post; that DVDs burned using DU work for me whether played on my Mac or on a DVD player for viewing on the telly. That would not help you though as your experience is different.
What I will suggest is that you do what is right for you and your needs. If that means selling your Mac and going back to a PC, so be it.
I am curious though. When, before you got a Mac and you used a PC to burn DVDs, did you use MS Windows in-built burning software (is there such a thing?) or did you use a third party utility like Nero. If you used something like Nero, then that's no different to investing in Roxio Toast for the Mac.
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