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[ariel47]

Hello you tech gurus, I have got a strange problem. I just got my new lacie d2 DVD dl burner with burning mechanism SH-W162L.  I burned a movie from Video_TS folder onto a blank double layer DVD+R from HP. The burning was done with Toast 7, in the most routine way.

After the burning was done, I was asked, as usual to choose to either eject the newly burned DVD or to mount it. I mounted it. The DVD player bundled with the Mac Softwares started playing the film beautifully.

So far so good. Now I ejected the DVD (actually in different ways, as I did this with three different films and three different DVD+R DL disks! - I ejected it from DVD player, another time by directly pressing the eject button on the burner). Then I put the DVD back into the burner again, and the very burner that burned the DVD would not recognize/mount the DVD! I checked with disk-utility programm that comes with my mac, and it indeed does not see a DVD!

Now I took the newly burned DVD and put it into the built-in super-drive of my powerbook, after some strange noises, the powerbook rejected the DVD.

Then I tried the same DVD with a PC in my office, there the DVD was recognized as a video DVD and the movie played again beautifully.


What on earth is going on? has anyone had the same problem? To put the problem in schematic forms, the following happened,

1) a DVD +R DL was burned as video DVD unproblematically with Toast 7 and Lacie d2 burner;

2) the newly burned DVD was not recognized/mounted/accepted by either the Lacie d2 burner that burned it, nor by the super-drive built-in in my powerbook,

3) the DVD does seem to function as a videa DVD on a PC,


Would be curious if someone could throw some light on what seems to be very erratic behavior of my new d2 drive from lacie!

Thanks beforehand!

[davidcc1]

Try Vertabim DVD+R DL Media only and forget the rest.

[lakewoodlawnman]

davidcc1, on Nov 2 2006, 11:29 AM, said:

Try Vertabim DVD+R DL Media only and forget the rest.

I agree. I never have a problem with Verbatim+r Dls.

[ariel47]

lakewoodlawnman, on Nov 2 2006, 01:39 PM, said:

I agree. I never have a problem with Verbatim+r Dls.

So you guys are assuming that the problem was the media, not the burner/driver/software. If that were the case, why do the DVDs seem to play on a pc? (this seems not to be a fluke, because all three DVDs I burned this way all played wonderfully on the pc, only not on my mac).


Once I heard that Mac Powerbooks do not allow external dvd drives to play dvd films, and in fact, my external lacie d2 burner with firewire interface does seem not to recognize a movie DVD that was bought from a shop.  So I am suspecting there is something to that rumour I heard. What do you guys think?

[lakewoodlawnman]

What would be the difference between a Mini and your Powerbook? I am running a Mini with OSX 10.4.8. I have a external Pioneer 110-D hooked up by firewire and it  burns DLs ,Sls and  reads the burned DLs, SLs and commercial DVDs.

Edited by lakewoodlawnman, 02 November 2006 - 02:27 PM.

[freshburn]

Some drives can burn media, but not play it back.  Strange but true.  The other drive can handle the media, the Lacie can't.  It could be the book type of the media, or you may just need to reboot the system.

Verbatim is much better media though.

[luv2xra]

I had the same problem were I burned the video-ts folder into a dvd+r dl and it went thru the process until the last 2minutes were it gives me a bunch of errors. Then it actually mounts the dvd and plays, then I eject the dvd and inserted on different dvd players and it does not play it. After a couple of trys, like twenty, it actually plays. I have try the following brands office depot ( Iknow) and Memorex I dont think we should resort to a specific brand to burn dvds on toast 7.

What do we want!

A fix

[freshburn]

What needs fixed is your drive.  Bad firmware and bad media.  There is nothing wrong with Toast.