Yep, I dropped it in my Tv hooked-up DVD player, which said, basically, This Disk Don't Play. (It's only a file containing a movie, not a movie). I phoned the guy who did the conversion and he said it was formatted for Window$
I asked our local video guru and this was his response.
Dave Game replies: Esver...
There is no such thing as a DVD formatted for 'windows', unless it was formatted as a data disk...and even then, the Mac will read a windows formatted disk...DVDs for video are MPEG 2 encoded disks which meet an international standard...that's how they play on DVD players; it's OS independent.
My suspicion is that the company encoded the disk on a DVD+R blank, which won't play in a superdrive (or on any but the latest DVD players). The only hope, if true, is to have it recorded onto a DVD-R Disk, which is a much more widely accepted standard. This is a stupid mistake on the part of the company, which should know better. Far fewer players read DVD+R disks than read DVD-R disks. --
Esver Camacho
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