HELP PLEASE: DVD Movie Won't Play on Computer nor Transfer

Hi! I burned a VHS taped program to a DVD on a Sony DVD burner and I made sure that I finalized the DVD. When I checked it while it was still in the player it did play on the TV very well but the DVD will not play on the computer nor will any of the programs recognize it.
When I put the DVD in the Mac Mini a folder appears on the desk top that says: SONATA_VOLUME and has a red circle with a white line in the center of it.
When I click on the folder and it opens there is nothing showing inside of it. QT Pro, iDVD, iMovie nor any other app will play it nor Handbrake, MacTheRipper will recognize it.
I'd like to know what I did wrong and how to fix it so that I can transfer & convert this file for the iPod.
I got the disks from compusa on sale so they are no name brands. Is the problem the DVD burner or the disks?

First, thank you for taking the time to respond.
This is the recorder I have: Sony DVD Recorder & VHS Combo PlayerRDR-VX515:
http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SYDisplayProductInformation-Start?CategoryName=hav_DVDDVDRecorders&ProductSKU=RDRVX515&TabName=feature&var2=
The specs stated that it does record MPEG video.
The Mac mini is a super drive w/ + & - capability. I guess I'll have to buy another recorder to get this to work.

Similar Messages

Movie won't play on computer say quicktime is incompatible

downloaded purchased movie won't play on computer say quicktime is incompatible. I get this message for Hannibal Rising: This movie requires QuickTime, which is not supported by this version of iTunes.

First, thank you for taking the time to respond.
This is the recorder I have: Sony DVD Recorder & VHS Combo PlayerRDR-VX515:
http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SYDisplayProductInformation-Start?CategoryName=hav_DVDDVDRecorders&ProductSKU=RDRVX515&TabName=feature&var2=
The specs stated that it does record MPEG video.
The Mac mini is a super drive w/ + & - capability. I guess I'll have to buy another recorder to get this to work.

DVD Movies won't play after 10.4.10 / DVD Player 4.6.1 Updates...

CDs will boot fine, blank DVDs will mount fine, but when I insert a DVD movie; the drive won't mount and the DVD player will not play my discs. I currently have a Pioneer DVR-109 installed in my PowerPC G5. Any information or help please.

SOME GOOD NEWS!
IT DEFINITELY IS A TIGER ISSUE... here's a little workaround... although in a tricky way, i got my commercial dvd's to finally play. do the following and let me know if it will work for you as well.
-insert a movie dvd (commercial)
-when told that the disc is not readable and prompted to eject or ignore hit ignore
-you will not see the disc mount on your desktop
-open vlc and hit play. choose "disc" for destination and hit okay (don't try with apple's dvd player, IT WILL NOT WORK)
-you will now see the movie title in your playlist, select it and play it... it works!!
good luck and until we find a permanent fix we can still watch movies on our macs! BTW, i used vlc 0.8.6c for this test on 10.4.10. incase you're not familiar with vlc, it's a free video player and you can download it from number of places on the internet.

Help! My Movies Won't Play!

I Bought Shakespeare In Love, And It Plays Fine.
About A Month Later, I Bought Without A Paddle, But That Won't Play.
I Bought Both Through Apple iTunes, And The First Still Works Perfectly.
Any Suggestions?

Hi Yellowlabisha,
If your iPod is having a problem playing this movie, then have you tried resetting your iPod? To reset an iPod:
First, toggle your iPod's "Hold" switch back and forth a couple of times (be sure to leave it on the white side of the switch, which is the Off position).
Then, press and hold the Menu and Select (center) buttons together for 5-10 seconds.
You might need to attempt this step several times. For more effect, you could try connecting your iPod to a power source while you reset it.
If that doesn't help, then try restoring your iPod to factory settings. For instructions, check out this Knowledge Base article:
Restoring iPod to factory settings
If your iPod is playing the audio, but not displaying the video, of the movie, then let's check your TV Out settings.
From the main menu on your iPod, navigate to "Videos > Video Settings". You will see an option called "TV Out", and make sure that this sis set to either "Off" or "Ask".
Also, be sure that you are accessing your videos through the "Videos" menu, as opposed to the Music menu, or else your iPod will not display the visuals of the file when playing it.
Any help after trying those things? If not, then what exactly is the problem here?
-Kylene

Help, please: Sequence audio won't play - 'pinked' out.

Hi FCPeers,
I'm (hopefully) winding up a two week system reformation - storage backup, initialization, reformatting, partioning, installation - well, the whole 9 yards in order to run my creaky but workable FCP 3.0.4 on OS X 10.2.8 the way it was meant to run (NOT on 10.4x!).
Anyway, I'm sure my question must be a no brainer for the more experienced, but in my current Project I have two Sequences, a Title Sequence and the Sequence of the film, itself. I did this to keep rendering times down on my low end machine figuring that I'd "splice" the two Seqs together (believe me, I'm looking at a Mac Pro solution in the hopefully not too distant future).
Now, I cut both sequences so that the Title audio tracks segues seamlessly into the tracks of the second Sequence, such that the overlap can be lifted or overwritten (only two channels among the four tracks actually cojoin). To do this I found a moment of silence with no video between the two Sequences, but in order to test, today, I tried copying both the video and audio of the "Title" Sequence to the "Movie" Sequence (and vice versa!) Everything plays as it should EXCEPT for 3 adjacent segments of one of the (four) audio tracks. Can't hear 'em. They show up pink in the Timeline and are just not heard. I went back and rendered the pink segments individually - still no sound from those portions of the track. I fiddled with the Channel designators, switching this and neighboring tracks between Channel 1 and 2 to no avail. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. Could it be that because the tracks in the two Sequences have the same name that they default to toggle one of the tracks off at a lower level? The developers anticipated this because of the pink tint to the track. If this is explained elsewhere, I apologize for being lazy and not searching harder to get a clue.
Thanks in advance for any HELP!
All the best,
David
FP iMac 800, 17" Al PowerBook Mac OS X (10.4.4) OS X 10.4.7, 10.2.8; FCP 3.0.4! ;º}

Michael,
Thanks. I haven't mixed down the audio or checked the number of tracks in Prefs. Good points.
As far as a mixdown goes, I'll definitely give it a try, though I wonder whether or not the tracks will be recognized during mix down recording - given that you can't hear either of those segments in playback. Just have to try.
Re the preferred number of allowed tracks - I'll go check as soon as I send this off, but I'm not sure that applies in this case, since the two Channels containing the segments that are pinked out are not in additional tracks. I should have mentioned that other audio clips and segments on the same Channels in the SAME tracks ARE heard in playback. As are two additional track in the 2nd Sequence. It's only when the two sequences are joined that the pink tinted segments can't be heard. Within the sequence the same audio cuts playback as they should. Thanks again &
Best regards,
David

DVD Movie won't play on DVD Player

When sharing project to DVD it only plays in Apple computer what Im I doing wrong?

Perhaps if you tell what you are doing, we can figure out what you are doing wrong...
Are you using File->Share->DVD...? Are you outputting directly to a DVD disc or hard drive? If the latter, how are you burning the disc?

IDVD autoplay movie won't play in DVD player

My IDVD movie won't play in a DVD player when created in autoplay mode. It plays fine on my computer both in preview and on my computer's DVD player program and it works fine if I create a menu and button, just not if I create it in autoplay mode. I've tried it on my work compter and three DVD players and it won't play in any of them. Can anyone help, please?

Hi Sue
Thanks for responding.
I used a 16x Maxwell DVD-R. The same kind of disc worked fine with the movie when I had a menu.
I'm afraid I don't know what a Patchburn is.
Josef
Hi JosefK:
Welcome to discussions.
Did you use a Data DVD by chance?
It needs to be a DVD-R with iMovie 4.
Are you using an external with Patchburn?
Sue
Hi Sue
Thanks for responding.
I used a 16x DVD-R. The same kind of disc worked fine with the movie when I had a menu.
I'm afraid I don't know what a Patchburn is.
Josef

My 10.6.8 macbook pro's DVD player won't play a movie from Netflix. The DVD does play on a 10.5 mb pro. So DVD is ok. Message says "not permitted" when I click play. Is there a compatibility issue? Or something else?

My 10.6.8 macbook pro's DVD player won't play a movie from Netflix. The DVD does play on a 10.5 mb pro. So DVD is ok. Message says "not permitted" when I click play. Is there a compatibility issue? Or something else?

Hello:
This is not an area I have much experience in......I rarely insert DVDs and I have never had a similar problem.
When the DVD is in the drive (and DVD players is open) click on File>get disk info.
Barry

ITunes rented movies won't play on my PC. "This movie required QuickTime which this version of iTunes doesn't include. So I downloaded QT but movies still won't play. HELP

iTunes rented movies won't play on my PC. "This movie required QuickTime which this version of iTunes doesn't include." So I downloaded QT 7 but movies still won't play. HELP Very frustrating.

Ok nw the rented film is on the iPad which won't play and when I looked at the Mac I was greeted with an error message saying that the film could nt be transferred because the file had already been transferred somewhere else! Thing is I can see it on theioad and the Mac still!
Obviously the film Kees checking where it as you can't watch it in two places at the same time. I can understand that but I knw it's not anywhere else.
The only thing I can think of is if when time machine backs it up it thinks it's being watched!
Any ideas anyone?

Selected movie won't play SOLVED

I had this problem trying to play a rented movie. Got the message The selected movie won't play on one of your connected displays. My problem was with a software which is made by INFOCUS for their projector. I removed it and now the movie plays even on the projector and without the software. I have seen that solution in this forum elsewhere.

Hello guys,
Please note that to be able to play your purchased HD movies or videos, let us not forget some minor details. Ensure that your iTunes software is up-to-date. HD videos will only play if you have iTunes 10.6 or later as described in this article:
iTunes: Purchasing and viewing HD videos
You might also want to check this one:
iTunes for Windows: Unable to view or play HD video content that requires HDCP
I hope this helps a lot! Good luck!

DVD videos won't play, although audio works?

since upgrading to 10.8.4, DVD videos, including rental movies, discussions from teaching sessions, and conversions from home movies won't play, although sound is audible. Video player is "App version 5500.38.2; Framework version 5.7.1. I have rarely used DVDs on the machinge, but did work fine in past. Any suggestions appreciated

What comes to mind is that the DVD player will only work with certain original Apple manufactured DVD drives. (Licensing issue since Apple pays a license fee for the MPEG software on the DVD drive.) Are you using the original built-in drive? VLC doesn't care about the license but states that it is up to the user to insure proper licensing. Look in About This Mac to see what information it has about the DVD drive. Perhaps it is somehow sending the wrong information.
Can you view MPEG movies on the Apple site. For example the movie trailers.

ITunes Error: Cannot play bought iTunes movie from one day to the other "The selected movie won't play on your display."

Hi,
just a few weeks ago I watched on my new iMac 5k Retina a long-ago-downloaded movie (iTunes content, HD, Billy Joel. Live at Shea Stadium). I had no issues watching it on the new wonderful display just a few weeks ago!
Today I wanted to resume the video and got the error "The selected movie won’t play on your display. This movie can be played only on displays that support HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection).".
Actually the movie plays for a few seconds and then the movie window gets black and the error message appears. Restarting iTunes does not help. Restarting the Mac also not.
How can this be fixed?
Additionally I get since I moved from my old iMac to the new one the iTunes error "Do you want the application “iTunes.app” to accept incoming network connections?" every time I start iTunes.
BR
Alex
iMac 5K Retina (ser no DGKP813CFY14)
AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4096 MB, 4 GHz Intel Core i7,
OS X 10.10.2 (14C1514)
I am running FCPX, iTunes, Aperture...

I found the issue, a new app that I installed the other day...just renamed it and now I can watch the bought content again...
BR
a

HT1657 my movie rental downloaded but it will not play. I rented a movie yesterday so I know that my laptop is capable. I can see images of each chapter but the movie won't play. Any idea?

my movie rental downloaded but it will not play. I rented a movie yesterday so I know that my laptop is capable. I can see images of each chapter but the movie won't play. Any idea?

Hi there kirk279,
You may find the troubleshooting steps in the article below helpful.
Troubleshooting iTunes for Windows Vista or Windows 7 video playback performance issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1718
-Griff W.

Dvd's won't play with snow leopard

ever since I installed snow leopard when I put a dvd movie in to play it won't. when the dvd comes up on the desktop and I open it, it opens the dvd audio and video ts files and not the actual movie. has anyone ever heard of this? I can't get the movie to play. thanks in advance.

you have dvd player 5.0.1.
The dvd app version that comes with SL is 5.2. Try doing a custom install of the dvd application from the SL installer disc.
Snow Leopard Installer discs include an Optional Installs installer. Launch this installer.
Just launch the installer and click the Continue buttons until you reach the Custom Install screen. Click the triangle next to Applications, click the box next to the application you want to custom install, and click the Install button to install the application.
If you’d like to reinstall applications that aren’t offered in the Custom Install screen—applications in the Utilities folder or in the Bundled Software folder for example—you can use Pacifist.
To use Pacifist:
Insert your Mac OS X Installer disc. Download Pacifist and launch it. In the window that appears click the Open Apple Install Discs button. A window will appear offering you the single choice to look at the OSInstall package. Click OK.
Pacifist will churn away for a bit and then you’ll see a window titled OSInstall.mpkg. In this window you can dig down through the hierarchy of folders to find what you seek or you can enter the name of what you’re after in the Find field and press Return. A drawer appears that lists the names of matching files.
To install an item click the Install button in the upper-left corner of the window. You’ll be prompted for your administrator’s password. Enter it, click OK, and the item will be installed into its proper location on your Mac’s hard drive.

HT1657 My rented movie won't play, but three chapters.

My rented movie won't play, but three chapters.

Hi Quigglejake,
I'm sorry to hear you are having issues with your rented movie.
The following information should help you with this:
How to report an issue with your iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, or iBookstore purchase
Find the email receipt for your purchase.
Click Report a Problem under the app that is having the issue.
When prompted, enter the Apple ID and password you used to purchase the item, then click Report a Problem.
Click Report a Problem next to the item you are having an issue with.
From the Choose Problem dropdown menu, choose the appropriate issue.
Follow the onscreen instructions and—if prompted—type a description of the problem into the text field.
Click Submit to have your issue reviewed.
Hope this helps ....
- Judy

HELP PLEASE: DVD Movie Won't Play on Computer nor Transfer

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for