DVD external compatibilities

I have burned a Sony DVD-R 4x/1x using iDVD (iLife '05). Simple slideshow with iTunes music. The problem is it can play on only one of my external DVD players. And, while it plays fine on the G4 Powerbook, it will also not play on my Dell Latitude notebook. In trying to keep the Grandparents happy, is it a luck of the draw on what external DVD player to which I share the DVD?

Not sure what DVD format iLife uses:
In iDVD, I just clicked "Burn to DVD" and it did just that, didn't ask me which file format to use.
With Toast, when I insert a new (blank) DVD, it asks me whether to format for Macs only, or for both Mac and PC file format, or for DVD-ROM, or even for ISO 9660 formats.
Don't know if this has anything to do with your problem, but it might. You may want to give Toast a try, see if you have the same problem with a Dell for playback?

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Where can i get a cheat and good cd/dvd external drive?

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http://www.allmac.com/shop/productinfo.php?productsid=6910
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I have put in DVDs with photos on them - nothing, I have put in blank disks as if to burn something - nothing, I have put in CDs with photos - nothing - these disks have just .jpg images and still nothing.
Even if I put a blank disk in, it still says its waiting for readable media. I have put in both +R and -R disks - and the already burned disks with backed up images - nothing shows up in the finder. Finder preference shows all Hard disks, external disks, CD, DVD, Ipod, Connected serves to show
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The CD burner in my iBook works sporadically and I cannot view DVD's. I know that I need to send it back to Apple for repair
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Here is a vendor who has a good reputation as far as I know. They have delivered promptly to me in the past.
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The iBooks are on the left.
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Greetings to all! A short buy an external burner ... I "studied" the items in the BIOS of my pc in regard to boot ...
that's how I set
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Hello ettore88. I understand that you're wanting to boot from this external (USB) CD drive. Is this correct?
Most notebooks do not support this functionality so it is unlikely that you can boot from this external CD drive.
I suggest leaving the boot order as it is. That way if you ever need to boot from CD/Floppy the option is already there. As long as you do not have a bootable disc in either drive when trying to turn your notebook on you shouldn't see any problems.
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LITEON LSC-24081MX (see attach)
bought it once for an R100 and is now
used with an R200.
will definitely boot (i.e. mount) Toshiba's rescue disk!
at the time of me writing this reply 10 items available
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I have a ibook G4 and just purchased a external dvd burner and player. It works fine for dvd programs. I also up upgraded to tiger from a dvd with no problems.When i try to play a dvd video the the dvd player program will not open The message comes up -There was a initialization error. a valid dvd drive could not be found (70012). I tried the sane new dvd external burner in my I Mac G5 and it worked fine. The dvd player started up and a video played. Please some one advise.
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Welcome to Apple Discussions
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Kernel panic when booting from DVD or external drive

Hey Folks,
I have a 13" MBP, seems to run fine for the most part.
However, I can't boot from DVDs or external hard drives. Disk Warrior, my and a tech support buddy of mine's OSX Snow Leopard DVDs, and external boot disks all cause a kernel panic when selected from the alternate boot menu when rebooting with alt.
The DVD/External spins up, the loading spinner goes for about 20-30 seconds, and then BAM - Kernel panic. I'd reinstall OSX... but I can't!
Any suggestions? I'd rather not send the computer to a tech for a week - I need it daily for work.

Kernel panic log:
Fri Nov 26 11:42:49 2010
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2a6ac2): Kernel trap at 0x00000000, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00000000, CR3: 0x00100000, CR4: 0x000006e8
EAX: 0x57cd9408, EBX: 0x57983dec, ECX: 0x06fa2b80, EDX: 0x07fb9c80
CR2: 0x00000000, EBP: 0x57983e18, ESI: 0x07fb9f00, EDI: 0x00000001
EFL: 0x00010206, EIP: 0x00000000, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00000010
Error code: 0x00000010
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x57983ae8 : 0x21acfa (0x5ce650 0x57983b1c 0x223156 0x0)
0x57983b38 : 0x2a6ac2 (0x590a50 0x0 0xe 0x590c1a)
0x57983c18 : 0x29c968 (0x57983c30 0x7fb9f00 0x57983e18 0x0)
0x57983c28 : 0x0 (0xe 0x48 0x57980010 0x7fb0010)
0x57983e18 : 0x5389f2 (0x7fb5a00 0x7f62500 0x1 0x4fbe2a)
0x57983e78 : 0x536c27 (0x7f62500 0x7fb5a00 0x8006380 0x805e4c0)
0x57983f28 : 0x5371b8 (0x7f62500 0x8000140 0x0 0xffffffff)
0x57983f78 : 0x538e67 (0x7f62500 0x0 0x57983fac 0x1)
0x57983fc8 : 0x29c68c (0x7f85190 0x0 0x29c69b 0x74d03d4)
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Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:47:34 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro7,1 (Mac-F222BEC8)
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Hello,
I have problem with Windows 7 Pro X64 on Bootcamp so I want to re-install Windows with 8.1.
I removed old bootcamp, download lastest driver via Bootcamp assistant. Create new partition for Windows. Reboot and install via DVD external (that DVD get from that MC700). However I got black screen with blinking cursor.
I don't make sure does MC700 (early 2011) support install Windows via external DVD ?
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