DVD Discs not opening Directly

[Glendalough]

I am posting this here (not the design and media department) as I'm pretty sure this is related to the operating system.

I am making DVDs in DVD Studio Pro 2 many years on and off. These are very basic and simple formats.

Recently have been having trouble when I insert them in drives. The DVD player opens but just stays black, when I attempt to open or play by pushing the arrow "There was a problem opening the media the media type is not supported" comes up in box.

This same warning comes up when I navigate to disc through the drop down menu. But when I navigate to video_ts folder (on the disc) all goes well . It will also finds this again if I put the disc in another time. In all other respects it is normal and no problems.

Sorry for mentioning such a trivial problem but WHY is this happening? Commercial Discs with the same apparent file structure DISCNAME/VIDEO_TS seem to work, open immediately.

This happens to 2 machines running 10.4.7 (Tiger). Don't remember this happening before, wonder is it the OS? Or could it be that I'm burning by the new "burn folder" process (in the finder)? Again only since Tiger came out. Before this I used Toast.

I have to send my discs to people at times who may not be very computer wise or whatever, or just impatient and wouldn't know or have time to navigate to the video_ts folder. This wouldn't create a great impression!

Really hoping someone would be so kind as to suggest or have any ideas on this.

 

[ora]

It might be the burn folder method , as i believe the format of the disc needs to be UDF to act as a normal video dvd. I suspect using a burn folder makes it a data format disc, which allows you to access it as a video ts folder but not to autoplay in dvd player etc. Try a disc with toast and see if it works.

 

[Glendalough]

...i believe the format of the disc needs to be UDF to act as a normal video dvd. I suspect using a burn folder makes it a data format disc....

Thanks ora!

This indeed must be the problem.

 

[MisterMe]

I am posting this here (not the design and media department) as I'm pretty sure this is related to the operating system.

I am making DVDs in DVD Studio Pro 2 many years on and off. These are very basic and simple formats.

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If the burned DVD used to play but plays no more, then it sounds like your medium has gone bad. I have had DVDs that I burned to lose their data and no longer be readable. It sucks, but is an artifact of the technology. This can be mitigated somewhat by using only the blank DVDs which work on your system. It doesn't matter what works best with your friends' systems. The other thing is to store your burned discs so that they are not exposed to light.