Re: DVD won't play.

[Nathan Templeton]

On 3/22/12 5:54 PM, Dan wrote:

At 10:31 AM -0400 3/22/2012, Skyler Rudd wrote:
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"DVDs not playing".  Exactly what does that mean?  That's kindof like 
saying your car won't go without offering any details -- we can't tell 
if you lost your keys or forgot to open the garage door!


Do the discs not show up on your desktop?  Can Finder open them?  Can 
VLC view them?  Or is something locking up or ?  What error message is 
being displayed?  Be specific, please!


Have you tried cleaning your DVD drive?

Check both the system.log and console.log for errors, both hard i/o 
from the drive and soft errors from VLC while it's playing.


These DVD's are owned by my son, but he will not let me use the 
originals, only the copies. I use MacTheRipper and then DVD2oneX2 to 
set them up for Toast.


Why would you rip a dvd then reburn it like that?  Just use Disk 
Utility to duplicate the disc as-is without re-encoding it three times.


- Dan.

I have to agree here with Dan on two points:

 When I owned my DA/533 I would encounter this problem from time to 
time with disks that I either burned on the computer or were given to 
me. With 10.4.11, I could see the disk via finder, however when I tried 
to open them with Quicktime I could get a media unreadable error or 
something to that effect. Cleaning the drive helped for awhile, however 
it was a faulty drive that ended up being the issue. Like others have 
said, you can procure one from geeks.com, newegg.com or really where 
ever you would like for dirt cheap.


~Nathan

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Re: DVD won't play.

[Dan]

At 10:31 AM -0400 3/22/2012, Skyler Rudd wrote:
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Please post in plain text!

I am having an issue with my burned DVD's not playing on my 2002 QS 
933 MHz Mac. I have 1.5 GB of RAM and I have an NEC DVD_RW ND-3520A 
drive using Toast Titanium v. 9.0.1 running Mac OS X  10.4.11. The 
movies play fine on my DVD player for the TV, but I need them to 
play on my computer so I can learn the guitar parts.


"DVDs not playing".  Exactly what does that mean?  That's kindof like 
saying your car won't go without offering any details -- we can't 
tell if you lost your keys or forgot to open the garage door!


Do the discs not show up on your desktop?  Can Finder open them?  Can 
VLC view them?  Or is something locking up or ?  What error message 
is being displayed?  Be specific, please!


Have you tried cleaning your DVD drive?

Check both the system.log and console.log for errors, both hard i/o 
from the drive and soft errors from VLC while it's playing.


These DVD's are owned by my son, but he will not let me use the 
originals, only the copies. I use MacTheRipper and then DVD2oneX2 to 
set them up for Toast.


Why would you rip a dvd then reburn it like that?  Just use Disk 
Utility to duplicate the disc as-is without re-encoding it three 
times.


- Dan.
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Re: DVD won't play.

[JOHN CARMONNE]

On Mar 22, 2012, at 7:31 AM, Skyler Rudd wrote:

I am having an issue with my burned DVD's not playing on my 2002 QS  
933 MHz Mac. I have 1.5 GB of RAM and I have an NEC DVD_RW ND-3520A  
drive using Toast Titanium v. 9.0.1 running Mac OS X  10.4.11. The  
movies play fine on my DVD player for the TV, but I need them to  
play on my computer so I can learn the guitar parts. These DVD's are  
owned by my son, but he will not let me use the originals, only the  
copies. I use MacTheRipper and then DVD2oneX2 to set them up for  
Toast. I would be most grateful if someone could tell me the  
settings I need through the process to make them work.

Thank you in advance.



A lot of the early optical drives have trouble playing burned copies.  
I would get a newer external drive or a new Pioneer internal IDE  
drive. Optical drives are dirt cheap try Newegg,



John Carmonne
Placentia CA 92870
From iMac Core Duo 2.0








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Re: DVD won't play.

[Valter Prahlad]

Il giorno 22-03-2012 15:31, Skyler Rudd ha scritto:

> The movies play fine on my DVD
> player for the TV, but I need them to play on my computer so I can learn
> the guitar parts.

Are the DVDs "real" DVD-Video (like a movie DVD you buy in a shop), or
DVD-ROM with movies as files (data) on it?
(like a data CD would be)

Did you try playing them with VLC? (a free video player and much more, it's
free).
Please notice VLC 0.9.10 is the last one compatible with OSX 10.4.

It could be a problem of codecs missing. VLC has most codecs built-in.

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Re: DVD won't play.

[Bruce Johnson]

On Mar 22, 2012, at 7:31 AM, Skyler Rudd wrote:

> I am having an issue with my burned DVD's not playing on my 2002 QS 933 MHz 
> Mac. I have 1.5 GB of RAM and I have an NEC DVD_RW ND-3520A drive using Toast 
> Titanium v. 9.0.1 running Mac OS X  10.4.11. The movies play fine on my DVD 
> player for the TV, but I need them to play on my computer so I can learn the 
> guitar parts. These DVD's are owned by my son, but he will not let me use the 
> originals, only the copies. I use MacTheRipper and then DVD2oneX2 to set them 
> up for Toast. I would be most grateful if someone could tell me the settings 
> I need through the process to make them work.
> Thank you in advance.

First a somewhat offtopic point.

This is what your email looks like on my system:

. I may 
indeed be younger than that now, but unfortunately my eyes are not nearly as 
hip. This is why mail should be plain text!

Second, you can burn them on the system but not play them back?? That's 
definitely odd. What are the exact errors you get with DVD Player?

Third.ly, you should be able to simply use VLC to play the ripped files 
proicuced by Mac the Ripper, and not bother with the whole burning process at 
all. IN fact VLC may be able to play the disks too.



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University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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DVD won't play.

[Skyler Rudd]

I am having an issue with my burned DVD's not playing on my 2002 QS 933 MHz
Mac. I have 1.5 GB of RAM and I have an *NEC DVD_RW ND-3520A drive using Toast
Titanium v. 9.0.1 running Mac OS X  10.4.11. The movies play fine on my DVD
player for the TV, but I need them to play on my computer so I can learn
the guitar parts. These DVD's are owned by my son, but he will not let me
use the originals, only the copies. I use MacTheRipper and then DVD2oneX2 to
set them up for Toast. I would be most grateful if someone could tell me
the settings I need through the process to make them work.*
**Thank you in advance.

Skyler

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