05-13-2008, 02:42 PM
We had a VHS from a home video copied to DVD by two professional sources and I have having problems getting them to play. Both DVD's play on the DVD player attached to the TV, so I know that the files copied OK.
But...
Wife's one year old MacBook running Tiger. DVD Player opens but does not see chapters. Hitting the play button causes the DVD to turn in the drive but does not play anything.
My G5 iMac does exactly the same thing, DVD Player recognized the disk but will not play it. Updated Tiger.
G4 Audio/Visual with Tiger gives me a DVD drive error on the Firewire LaCie DVD drive even though this drive works perfectly well when burning DVDs with Toast Lite. "There was an initialization error. A valid DVD drive could not be found. (-70012) The mac version of Windows Media Player does not recognize the file either. Dragging the Video_TS folder to Quicktime gives me "mac OS error -1409."
IBM Windows XP - my machine opens Windows Media Player but gives me a "WMP cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on your computer" error. Updateing WMP does not help.
New laptop Windows box plays the DVD with chapters just the way it should.
So, what do I need to do to get the Macs to play this thing?
The DVD Player support documents that I've found on the Apple.support site talk about problems playing a burned DVD on the external player; mine is the opposite problem. A question here from Paul F. not long ago did not cover this issue.
Thanks
But...
Wife's one year old MacBook running Tiger. DVD Player opens but does not see chapters. Hitting the play button causes the DVD to turn in the drive but does not play anything.
My G5 iMac does exactly the same thing, DVD Player recognized the disk but will not play it. Updated Tiger.
G4 Audio/Visual with Tiger gives me a DVD drive error on the Firewire LaCie DVD drive even though this drive works perfectly well when burning DVDs with Toast Lite. "There was an initialization error. A valid DVD drive could not be found. (-70012) The mac version of Windows Media Player does not recognize the file either. Dragging the Video_TS folder to Quicktime gives me "mac OS error -1409."
IBM Windows XP - my machine opens Windows Media Player but gives me a "WMP cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on your computer" error. Updateing WMP does not help.
New laptop Windows box plays the DVD with chapters just the way it should.
So, what do I need to do to get the Macs to play this thing?
The DVD Player support documents that I've found on the Apple.support site talk about problems playing a burned DVD on the external player; mine is the opposite problem. A question here from Paul F. not long ago did not cover this issue.
Thanks