Copying/burning a dvd, won't play in a dvd player

Before my disk drive was replaced I could take a dvd, copy it and burn it to a disc (i.e., make a copy for myself), ad it would pla in my dvd player
Since then when I make a copy of something and burn it, it won;t play in ant DVD player. Will play onthe computer though
What settings do I need to change?

Musicwind is right, there's no way to do what you describe without third-party tools. A commercial DVD, like what you'd be using in a DVD player, cannot be copied using the Finder or Disk Utility, due to copy protection issues. Are you using something like Handbrake to rip the DVD, or is this not a commercial DVD that you're copying?

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That often is a result of using inferior DVD disks and burning at too high a speed. What brand and type of disk did you use and what speed did you burn at?
Follow this workflow to help ensure the best quality video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image and launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding was good.
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Burned dvd won't play on my dvd player.

Help! I downloaded FREE DVD creator from the APP store. Followed directions on how to burn DVD. Imported video from iMovie ( vacation video ), burned it onto DVD and the playback on my DVD player is very jittery, stutters, and sometimes freezes. The video format was m4v. and the other format was .mov. Am I doing something wrong? Did I miss something? Very frustrating spending all that time editing the video only to have it not play on my DVD player. Do I need to get iDVD or a 3rd party app? Please help.

Hi
Best place to ask is in iDVD forum - but still -
There are lot's of factors determine the resulting DVD quality
Stutter and jittery etc use to be due to
• material is in different frames per second (PAL vs NTSC)
I start with finding out in what format the DVD is supposed to be
PAL (25fps) = EU
NTSC (29.97fps) = US
Most DVD-players in EU can handle both - Few in US can do so
• .m4v or .mov etc are no Video-Codecs but containers - Open the movie file in QuickTime-Player and then open Inspector [cmd+I] to find out Video format and frame-rate
I use JES_Deinterlacer to get all my material into same standard then Import it into iDVD (set to same standard).
By letting iMovie or iDVD do this conversion usually results in STUTTERING and JITTERY results. JES_Deinterlacer does this so much better - AND IT'S FREE !
• Using Cheap DVD brands as Memorex, NoNames etc - usually don't work at all (for VIDEO-DVDs - Data-DVD usually works but they do not play in any DVD-player)
I only use Verbatim
• DVD type used matters - DVD+/-RW usually doesn't work or gives a disastrous result. DVD+R plays on more modern DVD-players - BUT DVD-R plays on older ones too.
I use DVD-R
• BURN SPEED - Full speed usually results in DVDs that doesn't play or only on a few devices.
I always set this down to x2 or x4
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I've read the other posts on this already, but they don't seem to address what I believe is my issue.
I took an mp4 movie into iDVD as "One step DVD from movie", it took 8 hours to burn a 120 minute movie. When the screen said "done" it also said there was 21 minutes left to go. I clicked "close" and it popped an error that it wasn't finished, so I clicked on "continue", I left it go for another hour and the screen never changed from the done/21 minutes screen so this time I clicked "close" and "cancel".
The DVD plays on my MBP, though I'm not crazy about the quality. When I put it in my Panasonic DVR it won't play at all. I know it's not the media, as this is the same media I use in the DVR to burn movies with never a problem (Memorex DVD+Rdl).

Greetings,
I would not rule out the media. You can have a bad disk in a stack, they are just bits of plastic after all.
I would also suggest using DVD-R rather than +R for better compatibility with more DVD Players.
Open your iDVD project.
Go to Advanced > Delete Encoded Assets
Go to iDVD > Preferences > Advanced and lower the Preferred DVD Burning Speed to as low as you can stand. The lower the number the more likely the disk is to be recognized by various DVD Players.
Burn again.
Hope that helps.

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Hi
When DVD do not play it use to be
• One has made a Data-DVD and not a Video-DVD
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Running Imovie 9.0.4. Exported DVD using "Export Using Quicktime." I burnt a DVD and it plays fine on my computer but not on my DVD player connected to my TV at home.
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A. QT.mov on DeskTop to a DVD ===> a Data-DVD that can be played on any computer with QuickTime-player. No DVD-player can playback this.
B. You need iDVD to do the Video-DVD structure. What You most certainly did was dropping the QT.mov into a Drop-zone in iDVD Menu window and this will play just for a few minutes. If dropped slightly to the side of this area it would have worked OK.
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Dear Shawn,
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Hi:
Wellcome to the discussions !
You didn't mention what software player you tried in that PC. Probably Windows Media Player?
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I filmed my son playing a concert on my iPhone. It is about an hour long. I was able to make it into a quick time movie. I figured out how to bun it on to a DVD throught Finder, but the DVD won't play on my DVD player or the Mac DVD player. What am I doing wrong?

Did you use iDVD to create the video DVD for playing?
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Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
If iDVD was not preinstalled on your Mac you'll have to obtain it by purchasing a copy of the iLife 09 disk from a 3rd party retailer like Amazon.com: ilife 09: Software or eBay.com. Why, because iDVD (and iWeb) was discontinued by Apple over a year ago.
Why iLife 09 instead of 11?
If you have to purchase an iLife disc in order to obtain the iDVD application remember that the iLife 11 disc only provides themes from iDVD 5-7. The Software Update no longer installs the earlier themes when starting from the iLIfe 11 disk nor do any of the iDVD 7 updaters available from the Apple Downloads website contain them.
Currently the only sure fire way to get all themes is to start with the iLife 09 disc:
This shows the iDVD contents in the iLife 09 disc via Pacifist:
You then can upgrade from iDVD 7.0.3 to iDVD 7.1.2 via the updaters at the Apple Downloads webpage.
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When I burn a dvd using Idvd they will not play on standard dvd players.
Is this a problem with anyone else?
I noticed it was a problem in the early 2000-2003 but apparently something got fixed, because I couldn't find an incident where this problem continued to occur.
I am new to the Mac world and I don't always understand the acronymns used when I read responses. However, here is my problem.
Burning dvd's using Idvd:
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I really need help to fix the problem with the IDVD software or to know that I need to purchase another DVD maker software for my Mac. The product below says my Mac is running OS X v 10.7.2 but it isn't it is running v 10.6.8 as I stated.
URGENT!!!!

My macmini is under 2 years old. I reviewed your list of affects and I am going down the list to determine possible cause and effect.
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I can assume that's progress. The audio did however skip a couple of times while playing. That is new.
I will continue down the list using different type of blank dvd's etc.
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For much less money and much more reliable results I'd recommend the following for screen capture instead:
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