DVD Burned by Mac will not play on PC -- Help?

I know this question has probably popped up quite a bit, and I apologize for reasking something that has most likely already been asked. I am fine with computers and can typically solve my own problems after some research, but I can't seem to find an answer to this one that I can fully understand and work with.
I currently have a Macbook Pro with Max OS X Snow Leopard, Version 10.6.6. It runs with a 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor -- the same as when I orignally purchased the laptop, with the standard upgrades offered by Mac when searching for upgrades. Recently, my boss at work acquired her foreign exchange student's external harddrive which contained nearly 6000 photos that the student had taken while in America. She asked if I could hook it up to my Mac because her PC wouldn't recognize the harddrive. So I did, picking out pictures with her and saving these select photos into a folder on my desktop. I disconnected the harddrive and all was well.
She then asked that I burn the photos onto a DVD. I took the DVD, put it into my drive, and copied the files from my computer onto the DVD using "Finder." I then proceeded to burn the files using "Finder," and found that it was quite speedy considering the amount of photos (about 500). It finished burning, finalized, and completed. I safely ejected the disk and thought I was done.
Unfortunately, when putting the DVD into my bosses DVD drive (she has a pc -- I don't have the details of the system at this time but can get them as soon as possible) the disk was not even recognized in the slightest -- it was as though no disk were inserted. We went to "my computer" and manually attempted to find the disk, but to no avail.
Can the disk not be read by her PC because it was burnt on my Mac?
I am not sure what type of DVD disk it was -- I can check in an hour or so when I get to work.
I just know that all it contains are JPG files and it works just fine when inserting it back into my Mac.
Once again, I apologize for potentially asking a redundant question. I'm just trying to get this done for my boss before I leave on vacation tomorrow.
Thank you,
Sam

That's the way I do it... Works every-time...
You may find this Link of Value too:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15491723#15491723
Cheers,
Using iPhoto
http://www.apple.com/support/iphoto/

Similar Messages

HT1338 DVD drive in mac will not ply DVD's

My DVD drive in mac will not play full size DVD's,It says system extension cannot be used,please help.Thank you

Go to your OS Help Menu. In the search field type dvd
Click on all the troubleshooting topics & Support Articles that pertain to your issue.
You can also do the same in Disk Utility. Open same up.
At the bottom left of the window, click on the purple button w/the "?" in the middle.
This will bring up the Help Menu.
Try a different brand.
CDs
FUJI
TDK
Verbatim
Taiyo Yuden
DVDs
Maxell
Taiyo Yuden
Make sure the DVDs are not dirty, smudged and/or scratched.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50448
Cures for an uncooperative CD/DVD drive
Your drive may need cleaning. Cleaning kits can be purchased from any store that sells CD/DVDs.

I just bought a new mac mini and an external DVD burner. I want to burn a DVD video and it will not play on the TV but only on the computer? Need this figured out for tomorrow.

I just bought a new mac mini and an external DVD burner. I want to burn a DVD video and it will not play on the TV but only on the computer? Need this figured out for tomorrow. Can anyone help me?

Congratulations on the new Mini. Are you saying you tried burning and it does not play, or do you want to burn it only for the computer to be able to play it?
OS X Mountain Lion: Burn a CD or DVD may help.

My purchased music will not play on any of my devices. It is there but it will not play. Please help.

My purchased music will not play on any of my devices. It is there but it will not play. Please help.

Try deleting and redownloading the music.
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

Disc burned with iDVD will not play in DVD player only on MAC

I used iMovie to create a movie and then shared it with iDVD. I successfully burned the DVD through iDVD but it will not play on my DVD player. It plays fine on the iMac. It is in UDF format. After reading through posts, I saved the file as a disk image and then burned through Disk Utility. This plays fine but I would really rather burn the disc directly from iDVD. Any ideas why the DVD player says "This type of disc cannot be played"?

Media quality affects the burn errors on a disc. Computer players tend to have better error correction (to preserve digital data) - set-top DVD players tend to have poorer error correction since the are designed to play commercial, stamped DVDs with low error rates.

I've burnt a slideshow of my photos onto a DVD disc but it will not play on my DVD player. It plays ok on my acer laptop. I burnt the same disc with slideshow from my old dell computer

I've burnt a slideshow of my photos on my Apple Mac to a DVD+REW disc but it will not play on my DVD player or on a combined DVD/TV. However it will play on my wife's Acer laptop. I then erased the disc & burned another slideshow from my ancient Dell computer onto the same disc &it played just fine on everything. So it seems the problem ids somewhere in the Apple Mac process. Any ideas?
Keith C

Gary Scotland wrote:
If you want to play material on a dedicated DVD Video hardware player, you must create a DVD video disc, and you must use a DVD authoring application.The software creates files that the DVD video player can play and will burn them to a recordable DVD disc. Examples of applications are:
Roxio Toast and iSky DVD Creator
Mac's used to be supplied with iDVD authoring software but Apple discontinued it in 2011.
Thanks for that. Will need to check iSkysoft out. I am in the process of looking for a VisualHub replacement/backup. Especially when it comes to ease of use. Toast is ok. Just looking for something along the lines of VH.

Itunes videos will not play on Itouch-- HELP!! (please)

I recently purchased an Itouch, (& I love it!!-for the most part) I just have one issue... none of the videos I purchased in the Itunes store will play on it! They will transfer without issue, but when I try to play it on my Itouch I get this message: "This movie could not be played". So my tv shows, music videos, AND movies will not play! (note: all were purchased/ downloaded from the itunes store). [They will play on my old Ipod mini tho...)
I have spent two days perusing Apple support and all over the internet looking for a fix... nothing is working. I have the latest edition of itunes and everything. I have reset my Itouch, taken everything off and put it back on. I have un-installed and re-installed itunes... I have also done all of the trouble shooting steps... like the downloading of the sample video...
One message board told me that I could go to Advanced> Create Iphone or Itouch version & that should do the trick... nope. It's not even an option for me... and since I don't have QuickTime PRO it won't let me convert and export my videos either.
I am rather distressed about this, so I really hope you can help me.
Thanks!

Lesley W wrote:
It won't come up as an option for me either and I have an Ipod Classic, so it doesn't even seem to be one type of Ipod. It's driving me loopy!
I don't understand what your iPod model has to do with your version of iTunes...
... this option is in the iTunes' Advanced menu... if you have the latest version of iTunes installed, it would be right there... only grayed out if you don't have a video file selected.

My mac will not turn on.. help please!

my mac will not turn on with the power button. is there another way to override and turn it on?
did a software update early this morning (around 1 or 2 am).... on safari for a while.... closed all programs.
shut computer down via menu.
went to turn on around 11 am today... and absolutely nothing.
have unplugged and re-plugged power cord...
hoping for help b/4 i go into panic attack.
thanks all!!!

just hoping there is some way to override the power button.
perhaps combining a number of keys on the keyboard or something magical.
i have an appt with the genius bar tonight... but desperate for an immediate solution.
thanks for reading.

Burned DVD in Toast 9 will not play in DVD Player

I used Toast 9 to burn a DVD from a Video_TS folder. The DVD plays fine on my Mac, but will not work on any other DVD Player. The Video is in PAL format and I am using a DL DVD - any suggestions??

Since I don't know what region you are in, it's hard to answer but if you are in the USA then you can't play PAL on most set top DVD Players. You have to have NTSC standard.

IPhoto show transfered and burned with iDVD will not play

Using iLife 6 - I have 425 photos in iPhoto edited and set to run 3 seconds with dissolves. Transfered to iDVD and created menue and sound from iTunes. The show appears to run fine in preview. However, when I burn the disk it will not run on a DVD player. It runs for a while and then studders or stops. Will sometimes start back up and then stop again. I have tried the following:
Have reduced all of the photos from origonal 4 to 5 MB down to 200 - 400 KB
Have tried 3 different types of master media.
Have tried 4 different DVD players. It plays best on my expensive Pioneer PRV
9200 but still has some small problems and studdering.
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Is there any way to change the burn speed and settings in iDVD?
If you create a disk image, you can use Toast to burn and control speed to 4X or slower.
File/Save As Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD Media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

Installed New DVD burner, but it will not burn DVDs

I just installed a new Pioneer DVR-112D DVD burner but when I try to burn a DVD with iDVD 4 it will not burn a DVD. It looks like iDVD 4 will get to stage 4 of the process but it will not finish burning the DVD. Can anyone help me out?
Thank you
Nelson Rego

If you don't have Tiger, or iDVD 6 or higher, you will need PatchBurn
<http://www.patchburn.de>

I have 3 DVDs with videos recorded in mpg format. My Mac will not play them and says I may need to download software. Does anyone know what to do to play the DVDs.

I have 3 DVDs with videos recorded in mpg format. My Mac says it cannot play them and I may need to download additional software. Does anyone have any suggestions on what to download or do to play them?
naomifromnewyork

VideoLAN - Official download of VLC media player for Mac OS X

I removed my optical drive because i added an ssd hard drive. when i plug in the dvd to usb it will not play from the macbooks dvd program. the error message is there was an initialization error, a valid drive could not be found.

I can go into disk utility and see the optical drive and mount what ever cd is in the drive and quicktime will play it. but i would like to have the dvd program recognize the optical drive and open what ever is in it.

Freakin amazing! I installed a new 1TB Samsung SSD in my main hard drive slot and moved my old hard drive into my DVD slot and moved my DVD to an external DVD case and it would never work with movies, only software disks. I have Late 2011 Macbook Pro running Mavericks with 1TB Samsung SSD and a 512GB HDD in the DVD slot with my DVD in an OWC external DVD case.
I tried this trick but at first, this did not work because OxED was saving the new file as a text file and not a unix file. I was perplexed until I read the comments below the article and found the tip to use Terminal to change the saved file to a Unix file. I have never used Terminal before and I had no clue what I was doing, but I just followed the steps to a T and it worked. It took two tries with Terminal.
The comment mentioned "Code:" so I typed that along with the rest and it didn't work. I tried it again and this time just typed
chmod +x (with a space after the x) then dragged and dropped the saved dvd file from my Desktop into Terminal and hit enter. Worked great. Thank you. I have my DVD player back.
I also had to play around with some permissions and I had to remove the original file completely from the "A" folder, before I dropped the new file back in.
Took a little work, but I am back up and running. Thanks to all who contributed to this and yet OWC definitely needs to have all this in their manual or even provide a disk or software download that does this automatically.
Here is the trick: http://macenstein.com/default/2011/07/how-to-get-your-external-super-drive-worki ng-in-lion/
Be sure that the new file saves as a Unix file. If it doesnt save as Unix, you will need to:
Open Terminal.
Type: chmod +x
…with a space at the end (and do NOT press enter yet).
Then, drag the saved file you want to change from whereever it is saved and drop it on top of the Terminal window. The file path and filename should automatically fill in (and you should ensure that there’s a space between “+x” and the file path).
Press enter.

Mac will not play sound through JBL Bluetooth speaker

My MacBook Pro will connect to the Bluetooth speaker, but refuses to play the sound through it. Seems like it isnt just me who has this issue. What can I do to connect it? Please help.
Note: It works fine with other devices.

UPDATE: Fixed this by simply disconnecting the speaker, turning the volume up full then reconnecting. Saw it on another post, didnt think it would work but surprisingly it did. Very Strange.

Soundbooth CS4 Mac will not play files

I can load files into Soundbooth no problem, see the waveform, but click play and playhead
just sits there.
I'm running 10.6.2 Snow Leopard.

Generally, these are the symptoms of the audio driver not talking with Soundbooth. Probably the simplest thing to try would be to open Preferences > Audio Hardware in Soundbooth, and re-select your default audio device. (Try changing it to a different device in the list, apply the changes to the preferences, then change it back.)
Did you recently upgrade to Snow Leopard? A common issue that's been coming up has to do with 10.6 upgrades changing the device ID scheme which causes some applications to attempt to load a driver for a device that no longer exists according to CoreAudio.
You can also try holding down the SHIFT key on launch which will bypass the existing Prefs and load everything in its default state. The old preference files will then be overwritten when you shut down Soundbooth.

DVD Burned by Mac will not play on PC -- Help?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for