Problem opening Tiger burnt DVD-R in Leopard

Dear Community,
I have recently upgraded from Tiger to Leopard (10.5.6) on a white MacBook and I'm having trouble with the DVD-R's I've burnt in Tiger. When I insert the DVD-R, the SuperDrive spins round for a bit then stops. No DVD icon appears on the desktop and I'm at a lose. I've been using Sony DVD-R for a while with no problems whatsoever. Any ideas?

Mark Houghton wrote:
Dear Community,
I have recently upgraded from Tiger to Leopard (10.5.6) on a white MacBook and I'm having trouble with the DVD-R's I've burnt in Tiger. When I insert the DVD-R, the SuperDrive spins round for a bit then stops. No DVD icon appears on the desktop and I'm at a lose. I've been using Sony DVD-R for a while with no problems whatsoever. Any ideas?
Do the DVDs work in any other computers?
Run System Profiler and look at what it says for your optical drive (Disk Burning)
It should show something like this:
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-85J:
Firmware Revision: FBZ8
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: Insert media and refresh to show available burn speeds
You might also reset your PRAM as this sometimes fixes the odd hardware issue.

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