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I burned a short film onto a dvd using DVD Studio Pro. When I play the dvd in a dvd player, the menu and tracks play fine and in accordance with the simulate menu in DVDSP.
However, the dvd will not play on my macbook pro or imac using dvd player. The menu comes up, but "play" has no result. "Not Permitted" comes up.
Details:
Menu is assigned first play.
Menu is simple: a single button "play" linked to asset (track 1, 6 min runtime).
Video Asset is MPEG-2, 7.7Mbps, 2-pass, 16:9 Anamorphic, from Compressor
Audio is Dolby Digital Professional 2.0.ac3, from Compressor
DVDSP preferences all set to SD, 16:9 Letterbox
Burning to DVD-R
Has anyone encountered this?
Thanks,
V

Well not that anyone was involved with this thread but I rebuilt my dvd menu from scratch and it seems that there were some buttons that i had brought in but had disabled (and never bothered to clear from the menu because they were invisible.) I guess they were confusing the computer when trying to hit play.
so... there

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