Burning DVD Troubles....

I have a couple of videos on my mac and I am trying to get them burned onto a Blank Disk. I am using a Mac OS X Version 10.6.2 (MacBook Pro) and the blank disks i have are Memorex DVD-R. I have tried just right clicking on the video file and clicked burn to disk and i have tried using Toast to burn it to the disk. The process finishes without errors and verifies successfully. But the movie only plays on my mac.

It won't play on any DVD player i try it in or my Xbox or Playstation. Correction, the video i DID NOT use Toast for works on my PLAYSTATION ONLY. I have tried burning the same movie onto two different disks in case i had a bad disk the first time but it still won't work. I also tried a different video in case something was wrong with the initial file. In an APEX DVD player, the first movie comes up with a blank menu and i can't pick anything and the second video (video i used with Toast to burn) says unknown disk. In a Panasonic DVD Player, both movies say to check the disk. Any1 have any solutions for me? Maybe some settings were off when i burned it so a DVD player can't read it? Maybe the Blank Disks Brand is no good?

If the brand is no good...can anyone recomend a good brand of Blank DVDs? I heard that Taiyo Yuden is the best. But idk.

What format is your video?

both videos are AVI files

is it possible older DVD players don't play burned DVDs...both DVD players i am trying are pretty aged...probably both made in this decade (2000-2009)...not 100% sure though

rman said:

What format is your video?

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when i put the disk in my laptop and right click and click on "get info"....next to format it says Mac OS Extended...is this the problem? maybe i didn't set it up right when i used toast...if any1 can give a brief walk through on how to burn it to a disk using toast, i'd really appreciate any help

nvm...i figured out wat i was doing wrong on toast...got it working

What did you do to resolve your problem?

So that if someone else comes along with the same problem, they will find an answer.

when using toast... there are 5 tabs under the "Toast" label and i was on the wrong tab, i was burning the movies to the disks as if they were data files not video files...i had to go over to the DVD Video tab lol

HI CPT, can you give me the link for toast ? I need to move some of my movies to DVD and I tried using the iDVD on my macbook and it was going to take 88 hrs !! ridiculous ! I assume toast will be my saviour.

Would appreciate link as I dont know what one is best for my macbook (just bought it last month) - thanks CBDGAL Tan !

bobtomay said:

Here you go.

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haha that's brilliant. It's about time something like that has been made

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