[samfam3]

Hi,
I'm a new user and burned a dvd (happens to be a Maxell dvd-rw). It plays fine on my television but won't play on my imac (os x 10.3.9). idvd opens it but just gives me a black screen; when I hit play (or anything else), it gives me the message "not permitted."

Any ideas?

[lakewoodlawnman]

Try DVD Player instead of IDVD.

[samfam3]

Hello, & thank you for the reply. Unfortunately, I mis-typed. It is DVD player that will not play it.

[macmidiguy]

After launching DVD player and you get that black screen go to the menu bar and select Open DVD media ( Command +O ) and browse your way to the your burned DVD ( on your desktop ) and choose the VIDEO_TS folder in order to load the DVD player.

That should work if I understood your question/problem.

[samfam3]

Thanks for the suggestion...when I do that, I get the message "could not detect a valid media file [-70025]" even though it is a VIDEO_TS file that I try to open. Maybe I'll try to burn another one and see what happens. In the meantime, if anybody else has any suggestions...

macmidiguy, on Nov 10 2006, 01:09 PM, said:

After launching DVD player and you get that black screen go to the menu bar and select Open DVD media ( Command +O ) and browse your way to the your burned DVD ( on your desktop ) and choose the VIDEO_TS folder in order to load the DVD player.

That should work if I understood your question/problem.

[John at Roxio]

Are you trying to play it from the drive that you burned it in? If not, your drive may not like the RW media. If you burned it with a set-top box, it might not like the way the disc was recorded.