My DVD-R won't read the copy it burned. My DVD player will!

[alexliz]

I used Toast Titanium 6.0 to quickly burn a Disc Copy of a DVD. It burned it. I tested it on my Daewoo DVD player. It works. I tested it in the Superdrive which burned the copy. It only sees the Audio TS folder.

Weird or what?

[qshartle]

I sometimes see that the VIDEO_TS folder is somewhere down the screen. If you can't scroll down, then yes, that is very wierd.

[terryj]

What version of DVD Player for Mac are you running?

[alexliz]

I've got DVD Player 4.5.
No, the Video_TS folder is nowhere to be found. It was in Column view that I couldn't see it. I guess you mean you scroll down to see yours in Icon view. Guess it's really weird, huh? But, really, *where* is it? It's got to be there, or the disk wouldn't play at all in any player. It's not even that it's a hidden folder, 'cause I checked in Terminal with ls -a and all I got was the Audio_TS folder.

!!!

[terryj]

Are you sure it got burned in Toast?

[alexliz]

Yes, it was Toast. Just for the heck of it, I'll do it again and let you know.

[miksu]

VIDEO_TS definitely exists, because otherwise, no stand-alone DVD-player could do playback. AUDIO_TS is empty folder, kind of "reserved for future".

It may be weird, but does it cause any actual harm? Is it like hick-up, uncomfortable to have, but harmless?

[alexliz]

Miksu, I have no doubt that the Video_TS folder exists. The problem, however, is that nobody seems to know *where* it is. And it goes further than just being uncomfortable: I actually cannot play back my DVD, unless I'm there sitting in front of my TV and DVD player.

I just can't figure out, for the life of me, how a machine can make a copy which it itself won't later play!

[g4cube]

Have you tried different media that might help with the play back issue if nothing else.

[willrob]

I have this same problem on my "repaired" Pioneer 109. The orginal died after 6 months and Pioneer, rather than repiar it, sent me another one (new? Refurbished?).

Now when I burn DVDs half the time they can't play back in my computer—the disk is spit out again as if were a blank. I can play these disks fine in a DVD Player. If I set my MAc's system prefs to mount blank DVDs on the desk top, and to launch DVD Player when a DVD is inserted, the disk is still spit out. So my system sees it neither as a burned DVD nor as a blank.

These discs were burned with Toast 7 (TDK 8x media). Others burned on the same eveneing, mount and play just fine.