burning dvds. im havin problems.

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Hi i got Mac OX 10.4.3 Power mac G4. I have some videos from my family gatherings and stuff and i have toast titanium and i want to put them on a disc so i can watch em on my DVD player. So i load them onto toast titanium 6 and i go to burn, put the disc in and it wont read the discs and it just says no disc. I bout TDKs DVD-RW and i also have some Memorex DVD+Rs. I checked my system requirements and it says it can burn DVD-rws but its not working. can someone help me?
 
Couple of things is could be that I can think of:

  1. Toast Settings: Perhaps you are not creating DVD-Compatible discs in Toast. Make sure you have selected the "Video" tab at the top of Toast window, and select "DVD Video" in the side drawer (circled in attached image). After ytou have set that up, drag your video in and Toast will encode the video before burning (this can take hours, depending on how much video you import)
  2. DVD Player cannot play DVD-RWs: Not all DVD players can play DVD-Rs, even less can play Re-writables (DVD-RW). These days it's rare to find a DVD player that won't play it, but there are still a few. Have you tried it on a different player?

The fact that the DVD player says "no disc" means the disc is not in DVD-Player comptible format. Here's a simple test:

Insert your DVD in your Mac and wait for the disc icon to appear on the desktop. Double-click the icon to open the disc's contents in a Finder window. If you have burnt a DVD-compatible disc properly in Toast, you should have a folder called "VIDEO_TS" in your disc. If you don't then you must be doing someting wrong in Toast.

Hope that helps :)
 

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Cheese...

I think the problem Vash is having is not one of reading a "burnt DVD", more like it's not being able to burn a DVD at all.

Vash...
Are you sure your mac has an Apple superdrive installed?
If instead it is some third-party DVD burner it might not be regognisied by OS X.
This can sometimes be rectified by a utility to create the correct profile found here...

http://www.patchburn.de/

jb.
 
That doesn't matter in Toast, which has its own drivers for 3rd party DVD writers. If Toast doesn't recognise a drive, PatchBurn doesn't either, generally. (Sorry, I know I'm not helping here...)
 
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