Can burn DVD but no playback.

After ripping and burning a movie DVD, I can play it on my DVD player, but, not on my 17" iMac. Rented DVD's play OK. Media?

You're posting in the Intel based iMac forum, but your signature only lists a G4 - is that what you're experiencing a problem with?
If that is the case, you might get more knowledgeable answers in the forum for G4's:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=137
In the meantime, you might want to check your Mac's media capabilities under System Profiler; I remember that the older Macs were extremely particular and finicky about reading +R vs. -R disks.

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I don't have any problem burning DVD's using iDVD, but I can't burn a CD using iTunes. It goes through the whole process, checking media, initalizing, burning, etc. then iTunes plays that little doo doo doo sound saying it's done, but then I hear a sound from the burning devise, like an err err err. I can't eject the disc unless I force quit iTunes. When I look at the disc I can see a burned area, so I put it back in the Mac and it says the disc is blank, so I put it in my Pioneer stereo player to get a second opinion and it says the disc is blank too.
I'm trying to figure out if this is a software or a hardware problem.
Or is it possible the blank CDs I have are bad? (CD-R 74 min 650 mb) I've tried changing the settings in iTunes preferences but it still doesn't work and I've thrown away 7 CDs so far.
I have a PowerMac G5 with OSX 10.4.4, Sony DVD RW DW-Q28A burner and iTunes 6.0.2
PowerMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

It varies by the drive model, not by the OS. So there's no brand that works better with Mac OS X, per se, but rather your current brand may not work well in your iMac's drive where another brand might work better. I've had good luck with Maxell and bad luck with Memorex, but that might not be the case with the drive in your iMac. Try a disk or two of some other brand and see if that works better.
If another brand doesn't work better, try just a Finder burn to see if the problem is with burning through iTunes or burning in general. If the Finder burn also fails, then the iMac's drive might be dirty (try a lens cleaning disk) or defective.
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Tried two different brands. Will try another brand. Created new user, tried it under that as well with new prefs. No luck.
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I noticed that there many of you have the same problem, but I really need some advice here, my MacBook Pro cant recognise or burn DVDs but only CDs, well actually occasionally it does recognise the DVDs then it burn but cannot write (on Toast), also in many other apps, like iDVD or DVDSP, it does run well on the first part of the burning but then failed at the end, with all kinda diff error msg. I have tried using many diff brands of disc too, inc verbatim.
So I borrowed my friends external DVD writer (actually a cheapy one with no brand), when I tried to burn using the external then an error msg comes up and says the writer cannot recognise the disc.
I dont wana get the MBP to repair but just wana get a external DVD writer to solve the problem, cos i need to use my computer and dont have a replacement mac, but now I am worry if the problem i now having is a system problem or just hardware, not sure if it is because the DVD writer i borrow is cheapy so it doesnt cope with mac, or just my MBP have system error that cant burn DVDs...
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PLSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS HELP

I'm having the same problem you are on my 2.4GHZ Core2Duo MBP running 10.5.2. It will sometimes recognize DVDs, sometimes not... it chuggs and clunks and then spits the disc out. If i re-insert it a view times it will show up on the desktop. I get failures from Toast as well as iDVD. If i keep trying i have been able to burn files onto a disc with the finder, but then the burner fails during the verification. If put the disc back in the contents appear to be correct (after a quick look). Burning CD-Rs seems to be working fine, that with the occasional DVD write seems to point away from the HW. I am trying with both Memorex DVD+RW and Verbatim DVD-Rs...
I have tried the command/option-PR reset combo with no luck.
Any ideas?
thanks,
-graham
PS the specific error i got from iDVD was: The error #-2147352539 was reported…
Message was edited by: Graham - Sonos

Can't burn DVD but image plays just fine in Apple DVD player

I can make a DVD and save it as an image, which DVD player will play flawlessly. I just can't burn it to a DVD. It fails continuously. Maybe it's my media? Can anyone recommend media known to work well in a MacBook Pro (last version)? Any other suggestions? thanks.

It is easy to burn from a disk image, and it is better because all the media needed is already within the disk image file. It doesn't have to search, locate and pull in the media for the burn. There are many places for errors to occur. If you have successfully created a disk image file, just burn from that.
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Superdrive can read and burn dvds but CANNOT read or burn CDs??

My DVR-107D can read and burn DVD's, but all of a sudden it cannot even read or mount a cd. It also cannot burn CD's. I've run 2 cleaning discs, and even manually cleaned the lens. I feel it may be a software issue at this point... Any ideas?? Finder is set to open CDs and DVDs to the desktop.

Hi
There are two lenses in the drive. It is possible for one to fail while the other still functions. I manually cleaning the lenses made no difference, it is quite possible that aspect of the drive is dead.
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Can burn CDs but not DVDs

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I downloaded all the Microsoft updates. I have recovery discs but that is a lot of work all over again when I'm not even sure it will help. I have 2 external drives where I keep my files and backup but I would still need to setup email and reinstall my programs.
I was about ready to buy a new drive for the computer when I saw on the internet that other people have this problem too. I would really rather get the drive I have working.

Hi,
Sounds like hardware problem, not software. Please clean the lens first, please try:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzpHtTU1S7U
Regards.
BH
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Subtitles suddenly displaying by default on burned DVD but not in simulator

Hello, subtitles which normally did not display until they were selected 'on' from a menu choice in the DVD are suddenly automatically being displayed by default when played on a stand alone DVD player for a television.
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I created brand new builds and can't figure out why this is suddenly occurring. I opened up very old projects and rebuilt them and they exhibit the same problems.
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I have not changed any settings on my set top Panasonic DVD player. The set top box can display subtitles but typically only does so when I choose it from a menu. This just started happening 2 days ago.
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Mac can't read Mac burned DVD but a PC can. Why?

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Mac Pro
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G5
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IDVD Finishes Burning DVD, but DVD is not recognizable?

Hello,
I'm working on a big school project and tried to use iDVD to burn a 5 minute project I made in iMovie to a DVD. I do not have a SuperDrive so I used the Plextor PX-740UF external DVD burner. Everything appeared to be working fine with the DVD-burn process, however at the end it said "Errors found during disc burn" or something to that effect, and then it said "Error during multiplex burning" or something to that effect. I tried this DVD in both of my DVD players on different TV's - it didn't work. When I put it in my Mac mini Combo Drive it wouldn't work, didn't appear on the Desktop, and I had to restart my computer to get it to eject. I tried again and no error message occurred, the DVD was ejected from the Plextor device... but iDVD froze with the message "DVD burned successfully". This disc would not work in a DVD player either. Note that these were both burned with a FireWire connection.
Do you know what I did wrong or where the fault lies?
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Mitch

Hi Mitchell
No I don't but I know how I would go on.
a. You are using iDVD 5 then make a disk image (File menu and down)
b. When You got this test it with Apple DVD-player. OK ?
c. Then there has to been a program to Your ext DVD-burner. Can it be set
to make a DVD disk. If so then use it and the disk image You just did do.
(If not there are buy-programs. I use Roxio Toast™ and like it very much)
on the new DVD there should only be two folders:
- audio_TS (and this is empty and has to be there anyhow)
- video_TS
Yours Bengt W

Burned disc, but video playback pulses. please help?

So i just burned a project from DVDSP.
Shot in 24f on the Canon A1, then exported to compressor using the
HD DVD: H.264 for DVD Studio Pro 60 minutes preset.
I setup the whole DVDSP system to do this, burned the project onto CD and everything went successful.
Then when i went to play it back on my comp, the video is laggy or pulses.
Its like its skipping frames or something.
What am i doing wrong?
I tested it on all my mac computers and all the same result.
iMac G5, Macbook, and Mac Pro with major upgrades.

Without knowing all the settings you used both in sequence presets in the FCP timeline and how you set things in Compressor it would be difficult to really troubleshoot but, it sounds as if you have a frame-rate mismatch somewhere.
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Greetings all...
I am working on a project that is going out in DVD and BD and have come across an slight problem. I am using Encore CS4 and I have a regular Pioneer DVD-R drive and the BD 203 drive which shows up as the default. (Win XP 4 GB RAM) When I go to burn a DVD-R Encore defaults to the BD drive and burns just great, but as soon as I switch to a BD project the burn panel says that there are no drives available. I have rebooted, come back a later day, barked at the moon and did the wiggly dance to help. I am able to burn to the drive with the software that came with the drive, so for the time being I am making an .iso and then burning it later, just wondering what is going on really...
It has worked in the past, and I don't know what could have changed it. Wondering if anyone has any ideas...

It has worked in the past, and I don't know what could have changed it. Wondering if anyone has any ideas...
Does this burner require a driver? Is it up to date? Things like simple OS updates can render many drivers obsolete. Is the burner's firmware up to date?
and did the wiggly dance to help
I've found that often doing the "wiggly dance" BEFORE the barking at the Moon, sometimes does the trick...
Going back to the serious part, if there is no driver, and the firmware IS up to date, I'd go into System>Hardware>Device Manager, and remove the BD burner, then reboot and let Windows find and install it again. This has cleared up some similar issues for others.
Good luck,
Hunt

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