>This is OT but you guys are the most knowledgeable people I know. A >friend sent me the following question: >> the DVD drive won't play a disc made by a commercial company of my >> old home movies. (I have an iMac with the superdrive running Jaguar). > >Any help would be appreciated. TIA
Um... I don't know specifically what the issue is, but I can tell you that not all DVD drives can play non stamped DVDs (and I REALLY REALLY doubt that the company stamped the DVD, I am sure they just burned it... you wouldn't go thru the effort and cost of mastering and stamping a disc for a one off item) I am a bit surprised that the superdrive would choke on anything however. Looking at apple's tech notes on the superdrive, they say that it will NOT work with DVD-RAM discs, and are not tested with DVD-RW discs. Did the company maybe use one of those two types? The other possibility... is it a DVD disc at all? Did they make a Video CD disc instead? Apple's DVD Player software will not recognize a VCD, nor will Quicktime under OS X allow you to play them (which I still don't get, since Quicktime under OS 9 will, and Quicktime OS X claims it handles Muxed MPEGS, so near as I can figure, the issue is soley that Quicktime OS X tries to recognize the format based on extension, and it doesn't know what to do with the .dat file). If it is a VCD, they can try playing it with MacVCD-X (you can get it via versiontracker.com). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
