ITunes & DVD Burning

I have purchased some "TV Movies" and downloaded them onto my MacPro. As I would like to watch them on my MacBookPro as well, I burnt the Dvd's with the iTunes built in program. So far so good, they show up ok on the MacPro Superdrive....but when I load the disc into the MacBookPro it is not recognised at all.
However.....if I start up Parallels on my MBPro and run the Windows version of iTunes (same version) the disc and movies do show up!!!
Any ideas please? Thanks.

If talking about purchased videos: Sorry - no way to do so due to DRM: Not through iTunes nor through any 3rd party application.

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I'm about to take some of my own advice and see about burning my purchased music to a DVD-R of some stripe. That way I'll have an external backup even if my backup drives and computer get zorched by a lightning strike or a massive surge.
Here is the question. When buring a data CD or DVD directly from iTunes, does iTunes finish the disk even if it isn't full? Is there an option to burn just a session and finish the entire disk later?
Anybody know?
Doc

After the last song is burned iTunes immediatly finishes the (data)disk.
Sorry, no multi-session option.
M

ITunes DVD Burn Issue

I receive the following: The attempt to burn a disc failed. The device failed to responde properly, unable to recover or retry.
I have downloaded all of the upgrades; I have checked that the device is supported in the system profiler; but I am unable to burn anything (photos, itunes etc).
How do I fix this?

Is there an additional driver that came with your LaCie? You might try to remove it, as OS X 10.4.2 should not need such a driver.
You might try to install Patchburn from http://www.patchburn.de instead.
Also worth a try: Delete in .User/yourusername/Library/Preferences
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com.apple.systempreferences.plist
After that switch off and on again your Mac

ITunes Backup trying to burn to wrong DVD burner

My MacBook Pro has a built-in DVD writer (which I have not had success using lately) and I also just purchased a Samsung SE-S084D External USB DVD Writer, because of my trouble burning DVDs with the internal drive.
I've got the Samsung burner connected and when I insert a blank disc, I get the pop-up from the OS that asks if I want to launch Finder, iTunes, etc. I can burn files to the drive from Finder (at 6X) just fine. iTunes however...
I have iTunes 10.1.1 (4). I go to File | Library | Back Up to Disc... In the window that comes up, it lets me choose one of the two DVD burners:
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857E
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SE-S084D
Clearly the first is the internal drive and the second is the Samsung USB external drive.
If I set it to the second one (the external drive), then iTunes gets stuck on "Please insert a blank disc...". I've tried ejecting and reinserting the disc, inserting the disc before starting iTunes, etc. Nothing works. Then on a whim I wondered if it was really using the drive that I told it to use. So I tried to do another burn to the EXTERNAL drive and when it said "Please insert a blank disc...", I put a disc in the INTERNAL drive. Voila! The message went away and iTunes proceeded to attempt to burn using the internal drive, which failed in a minute or two (which is the reason why I bought the external DVD writer in the first place!).
I tried many times and even though I choose "TSSTcorp CDDVDW SE-S084D", iTunes keeps trying to use the internal drive. Then I wondered if iTunes perhaps was displaying the wrong labels for the drives, so I tried to instead selecting "MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857E", hoping that iTunes would use the external drive. No dice. iTunes still used the internal drive. By the way, the Samsung shipped with the TS00 version of the firmware - I upgraded the firmware to version TS01 (the latest), but that didn't help with my iTunes problem.
So it seems to me that I have stumbled on a bug where iTunes DVD burning doesn't work properly on a system with multiple DVD writers. In the GUI, it offers a choice of DVD writers, but this seems to have no effect.
Can anyone verify this?
I suppose if I get desperate, I could try opening up the MacBook Pro and disconnecting the cable from the internal drive, on the hope that iTunes would then only one see DVD writer and would hopefully not get confused. That's pretty extreme though and I'd rather not open up the computer just to test out a theory.
Known issue? Can anyone verify this? Any other ideas for a software method for convincing iTunes to use the external DVD writer?
Thanks in advance!
-Marc

I use the console to watch for errors when burning CDs. The console can be found in the utilities directory under applications. I also use the system profiler to see if it reports the second drive seeing the empty disk, however your comment about being able to write playlist info says its seeing it and writing to the usb disk.
It maybe that iTunes doesn't support the USB DVD drive you have, or try moving to another USB port, preferable a high speed port, usb2. Again watch the console for messages being reported during the burn, buffer under or over runs, or read/write errors.
For the internal drive issue, either a bad or broken drive. One last thing to check is disk space, make sure it has more than 10% of free space left. If the drive is close to full, it could cause similar issues as you report.
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ITunes Seem to Have Suddenly Stopped Communicating With the CD/DVD Burner

Hello, I wonder if anybody can help - my itunes application seems to have suddenly stopped communicating with my laptop's cd/dvd burner
(Generic Name (E: H - T-S D D A S - 20N ATA Device)).
About 2 years ago, I have experienced a similar problem, but was able to resolve it by downloading 64-bit compatible GEAR drivers to my system. However, the problem has re-appeared when I have updated to iTunes Version 10.1. Funny enough, the cd/dvd burner started getting recognized again when I updated to iTunes Version 10.2, but halfway through me burning a large playlist to multiple cds has suddenly stopped recognizing the cd/dvd burner again, and has never "resolved itself" ever since.
I have tried multiple approaches to solving this issue, including completely re-installing itunes software and completely re-installing GEAR drivers, but nothing works. I have even tried uninstalling GEAR drivers completely, as I read that it worked for someone on one of the similar forums, but that didn't work either.
My itunes diagnostics runs all the points of the cd/dvd drive check successfully, except for the last point (Can Not Read Audio CD). Here's what the diagnostics summary looks like:
Microsoft Windows Vista x64 x64 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 6002)
Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv9700 Notebook PC
iTunes 10.2.1.1
QuickTime 7.6.9
FairPlay 1.11.16
Apple Application Support 1.5
iPod Updater Library 10.0d2
CD Driver 2.2.0.1
CD Driver DLL 2.1.1.1
Apple Mobile Device 3.4.0.25
Apple Mobile Device Driver not found.
Bonjour 2.0.4.0 (214.3)
Gracenote SDK 1.8.2.457
Gracenote MusicID 1.8.2.89
Gracenote Submit 1.8.2.123
Gracenote DSP 1.8.2.34
iTunes Serial Number 0016AB580A7B0C28
Current user is not an administrator.
The current local date and time is 2011-04-14 17:52:25.
iTunes is not running in safe mode.
WebKit accelerated compositing is enabled.
HDCP is not supported.
Core Media is supported.
Video Display Information
NVIDIA, NVIDIA GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M
** External Plug-ins Information **
No external plug-ins installed.
The drive F: Motorola MB810 Rev 0001 is a USB 2 device.
iPodService 10.2.1.1 (x64) is currently running.
iTunesHelper 10.2.1.1 is currently running.
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E: H-T-S DDA
S_-20N, Rev W_05
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Track 1, start time 00:02:00
Audio CD reading failed. Error Code: 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 0 0 0 0.
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Get drive speed succeeded.
The drive CDR speeds are: 3 9 16 24.
The drive CDRW speeds are: 3.
The drive DVDR speeds are: 3.
The drive DVDRW speeds are: 3.
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Okay ... checking something else:
Current user is not an administrator
Is that true? Or do you in fact have a Windows user account with full administrative rights?
(It's possible that a permission may have gone astray in your usual user account, which might be causing the burning issues.)

New DVD burner not working w/iTunes

Okay, I've been working on this and digging through these forums for awhile now. I'm still stumped. So here we go:
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I have completely uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes (yes, latest version) twice now. No go.
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I have uninstalled all virtual drive software, including Daemon Tools, PowerISO, and MagicDisc.
I have followed the article pointed out in an earlier thread involving editing the registry to remove 3rd party filters.
Okay... that's as much info as I can think of. Help?

Do you by any chance have Daemon tools? They are know to cause drive recongnition problems with this error number.
I intended to add this link just in case:
http://gearsoftware.com/wiki/index.php?title=SPTD_Drivers
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Sony DVD Burner and 350 mhz AGP not being recognised by iTunes

I managed to get a Sony DVD Burner for my friends Powermac g4 AGP, the sales assistant sais it would be comatible for macs....it installed fine and wa sable to read dvd's perfectly, when my friend went to burn a CD from iTunes it would not work as it seems the drive is not supported. I have tried finidng some drivers all over the sony website for it but to no avail. I don't suppose anyone has any experience with this brand of burner? Any help would be appreciated thanks.

As I recall, Sony's internal DVD burners are made by Lite-On, but as far as the G4 is concerned - the drive's firmware indicates a Sony product. A compatibilty problem for burning a disk occurs, when the CD/DVD drive is newer than the supporting profiles for Apple's Disk Burner software. Have you checked into "PatchBurn?" Other than that, your friend could purchase Roxio's "Toast," which has more user settings than Apple's software.

ITunes 7.3 failed back up data DVD burn had error code 261(0x00000105).

Just bought a bunch of new songs and went to back them up in iTunes 7.3 and I keep getting error code 261(0x00000105).
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HT204370 If I buy a movie on iTunes and burn it to a DVD can I get to to play in a DVD/Blu-ray player? I haven't had much luck trying to do so.

If I buy a movie on iTunes and burn it to a DVD can I get to to play in a DVD/Blu-ray player? I haven't had much luck trying to do so.

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http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html#SERVICE

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Problems ripping with an external DVD Burner

Hello Everyone,
Recently I purchased a Liteon External DVD Burner off of newegg (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827106011) -- It's a Liteon SHW-1635SX -- I bought this because the DVD-ROM drive thats in my tower natively is REALLY slow and I wanted to get a new one that I could use with a laptop that I`m going to purchase in the future. Whenever I try to rip a CD into iTunes using the burner, It says that it's ripping the disk, however it doesn't spin up the cd and it takes about 2 seconds to "rip" all the songs. I know this drive is soposed to be faster than my old one, But two seconds is a little TOO fast. Plus, I know that it's not copying the songs because when I try to listen to them in my library, the song won't play. (Under time it says "789:54..." for all the songs on the cd, in my library) However, the burner rips perfectly in Windows Media Player... Is this perhaps some kind of glitch with iTunes??? Basicly, the only way I can rip a CD into iTunes is to use my old DVDROM drive, but that defeats the purpose... below is the CD Diagnostic log that I got from iTunes::::::::
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
HP Pavilion 05 P9859A-ABA 533w
iTunes 6.0.4.2
CD Driver 2.0.4.3
CD Driver DLL 2.0.3.2
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Video Driver: Intel(R) 82845G/GL Graphics Controller\Intel(R) 82845G/GL Graphics Controller
IDE\DiskMaxtor4R060J0_________________________RAMB1TU0, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
IDE\DiskST34323A_______________________________3.02___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [1,0]
IDE\CdRomCOMBIRW16x10/DVD_______________________H1.0___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
USBSTOR\CdRomLITE-ONDVDRW_SHW-1635SYS0Y, Bus Type USB
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Track 1, start time 00:02:00
Track 2, start time 03:30:07
Track 3, start time 08:44:33
Track 4, start time 12:03:74
Track 5, start time 17:55:53
Track 6, start time 22:14:31
Track 7, start time 25:32:60
Track 8, start time 30:13:01
Track 9, start time 35:59:06
Audio CD reading succeeded.
Get drive speed succeeded.
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The drive CDRW speeds are: 8.
The drive DVDR speeds are: 8.
The drive DVDRW speeds are: 8.
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Your replies are greatly appretiated!
--Aric--

hi Aric!
hmmm. we'd better check on the usual suspects with that. (the incredibly long song times can also be associated with these sorts of causes.)
You can't import or play music from an audio CD in iTunes for Windows
... and the following resources might be helpful with that. (check on firmware and drivers even though it's a brand new unit.)
Using CD Diagnostics in iTunes for Windows to troubleshoot CD/DVD drive issues
iTunes for Windows: Updating the firmware on your CD or DVD drive
Updating the drivers on your Windows PC
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love, b

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