DVD's not playing

[bwf89]

Everytime I go to burn an AVI file (or could be any type of video file, but the only kind I burn to DVD are usually AVI ones) the DVD burns correctly, I put it in my Playstation 2 and it says "TV system does not match". So I put it in my set top DVD player and it says "playback feature is not supported".

 

I haven't been doing anything differently than I was in the past. Our family even recently got a new iMac which I installed it on and it still doesn't work.

[bwf89]

3. The brand or type of media you used is not supported by the players. They simply can't read the media.

I'm using DVD's that come out of the exact same 50 pack container as I was when I was burning them earlier.

4. The disc was not burned correctly due to some problem with the drive, Toast or OS. If this is true then the DVDs won't play on your Mac, either. Also, you said you tried this using two different Macs with the same results, so it is unlikely this is the issue.

Yeah, the play fine on my Mac. But not on the DVD player.

[bwf89]

I'm presuming you have DVD video selected as the format in the Video window. When you click the burn button Toast first goes through an encoding stage. Is this correct?

Yes

It sounds like you may have PAL video when you need NTSC or the other way around. Please describe the specs on one of those AVIs. Are you wanting NTSC or PAL?

Yes, I want them to play on NTSC TV's. But I'm almost 100% certain the AVI files I'm trying to burn are in NTSC format. I downloaded a bunch of videos in AVI format off of the same torrent. The first so many played just fine. But I stopped burning them for a week or two and resumed again and all of a sudden the rest of them didn't work. So I downloaded some other videos that were in AVI format and I'm also pretty sure they were in NTSC and they didn't work either.

 

How do I check whether the AVI files are NTSC or PAL?

[bwf89]

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[tsantee]

To check the format insert the DVD and select DVD with the Toast Media Browser. Double click on the name that appears in the browser window. Icons and names of the titles on the DVD appear in the browser. Now just put the cursor over the top of an icon and a description of the title's format will appear.

 

The only reasons I can think of that a player would reject a disc with the kind of message you received are

1. The disc wasn't burned in UDF format (but yours is because you used the DVD video setting in Toast).

2. The disc is PAL and your player is NTSC (but my guess is your videos are NTSC).

3. The brand or type of media you used is not supported by the players. They simply can't read the media.

4. The disc was not burned correctly due to some problem with the drive, Toast or OS. If this is true then the DVDs won't play on your Mac, either. Also, you said you tried this using two different Macs with the same results, so it is unlikely this is the issue.

[tsantee]

I'm presuming you have DVD video selected as the format in the Video window. When you click the burn button Toast first goes through an encoding stage. Is this correct?

 

It sounds like you may have PAL video when you need NTSC or the other way around. Please describe the specs on one of those AVIs. Are you wanting NTSC or PAL?