New eMac has LG DVD drive, won't play DVD's

[ojedapaco]

Strange stuff...

I had an eMac with a Pioneer superdrive which worked wonderfully (i.e. I could burn DVD's with toast and play them back on the eMac without a problem.

I had to replace my eMac and the new one came with an LG GWA-4082B drive instead. When I burn DVD's using Toast they play fine on my two DVD players, but not on my Mac! Regardless of whether I burn them in Toast with or without a menu, when I hit the "menu" or "play" buttons on DVD player, I get a "not permitted" message.

DVD's I had previously burned with the Pioneer drive as well as commercial DVD's play without a problem.

Doesn't that seem odd? Has anybody else had this problem?

Cheers,
Paco

[xjeffx]

Yes and no.

A similar problem occured on my 12" powerbook w/ combo (dvd/cd-rw) drive). I was running 10.2.8 and I could not play any dvd-r's I burnt on my PC. They would load into the drive, but not mount. Disk utility saw them, but wouldn't mount them. If you put a DVD+R in the drive, it would just spit back out. Really weird. A month later Panther came out and Apple advertised DVD+R burning support. Well luckily it also included DVD+R reading support. Ever since, I've burnt nothing but +R's (many brands) and my powerbook has read every one. In fact, I haven't tried a -R since (nearly a year) and have no idea if any of the 5 .1 updates have fixed the -R powerbook problem. I noticed this problem only affected the 12" Powerbook combo drives (cw-8122 model #)

You said it's a new eMac, so I assume it has Panther (10.3+) installed already, but if not, be sure to get it. Second thing I'd suggest is to try +R's if you are using -R's currently. Buy a small pack and test it out.

[Falcon500]

Make sure you have at least 10.3.3 installed... Apparently this was the sub version that first supported +R DVD's properly... That is assuming this is a +R problem. What DVD brand and type are you trying to burn?