05-13-2008, 04:23 PM

For some reason I cannot play the dvds that I burn on to my MAC.
They burn, I transfer them to an external hard drive and when I try to play them I get an error message.
Anyone help me??

05-13-2008, 04:48 PM

I'm a little confused. Are you saying you take a physical DVD and rip it to a movie file to play on your Mac, or do you create a movie on your Mac and burn it to a DVD disc that will play in a DVD player and such?

Will the movies play on your Mac before you transfer them to the external?

05-13-2008, 05:07 PM

A bit confused as well. But I am guessing that you are either making a disc image or in one way or another copying the contents of a dvd over to your HDD.

I might be wrong here, but i believe that if you mount a dvd image it will not play the same as if you inserted a physical DVD into your machine. There is probably a way to play it with Apple's DVD Player, but I never bothered looking as I had no need.

Regardless, either way, here is what you do. Open up whatever you have (a folder or mounted image) and find a folder called Video TS. Open that folder and you will find a bunch of data files. Look for VTS_01_1.VOB or something similar. Open that with VLC (http://videolan.org/) and watch your movie. Open VLC's Prefs and set it to full screen mode. You will have to open each file individually however. So when the first one is done just go on to the next. There are only a few segments per DVD however, so this is no big deal.

I hope this helps.

Scrapy

05-13-2008, 05:10 PM

P.S. The other thing that you might have meant was that you are ripping the movies into a compressed format and using some type of divx app to do so, and then when you try to play them back you can't because you don't have a system-wide divx codec installed. If so, you have 3 options:

1) Rip using something friendlier than divx
2) Install the free divx codec
3) play them (again) with vlc which plays all types of formats.

Scrapy

05-13-2008, 11:32 PM

Open up whatever you have (a folder or mounted image) and find a folder called Video TS. Open that folder and you will find a bunch of data files. Look for VTS_01_1.VOB or something similar. Open that with VLC (http://videolan.org/) and watch your movie.

Just to let you know, if you open DVD player and go to file>open dvd media... and then select the Video TS folder it'll open in DVD player just like a normal DVD would play. So you don't have to select the VTS_01_1.VOB etc files it'll play all the way through.