DVD+r disk problem. Plays in stand alone player, not on comp

[mrjayclay]

Help me please!
I have a dvd that was sucessfully burned, or so I thought!
dvd+r media(el cheapo brand), burned with toast 6 with pioneer superdrive. Plays fine on stand alone player but my frikin' computer nolonger recognises the disk!
what happened?
very confused

[Frobozz]

Apple Superdrives do not support DVD+R media. I'm curious how you were able to burn a DVD+R disc with a superdrive. This may have changed for the latest G5s, but Apple previously constricted the firmware of drives such as the Pioneer A06 so that +R media could not be used.

[terryj]

Toast 6 will allow you to burn a DVD+r media
to an Apple SD, models A06/DVR-106, and A07/DVR-107.
However, Apple's firmware for the Apple DVD player
component is set so that it will only recognize DVD-R media,
not DVD+R media.
This has been reported on the Toast forum.

If you want full compatablity, the ability to play
in both the settop and the Macintosh, burn to DVD-R.
If you want to play in settop only, or make copies
for your PC buds that have DVD+R drives in their PCS,
then burn to DVD+R.

Safest all around: stick with DVD-R.

[mrjayclay]

Thanks for the info
By the way, the supredrive in question is a replacement drive purchased at bestbuy.
for some reason toast recognises the dvd+ and burns just fine.
too bad my aging b/w g3 don't like those pesky dvd+ disks

[Frobozz]

That makes sense now. Your DVD burner doesn't have Apple's restricted firmware so it recognizes a DVD+R disc even if the Mac OS does not. And yes, Toast 6 will write to anything that the burner's firmware supports. Just to add to the novelty of this, I've found that that both Jaguar and Panther recognize DVD+RW when connected to a DVD burner that supports + media. It's just the +R that doesn't work.

[Vintageman]

I'm at work now but there is a software program I downloaded that lets your Mac OS X at least mount and play with VLC your DVD+R. I also burned some plus R DVD's with Toast and then learned they wouldn't even mount. When I get home I will give you the name of the program. It fixes so that you can at least mount those DVD's and use VLC to watch with but most important to me is the fact you can rip from it to make another backup. Which to me was the main reason. Hate to have to rip the DVD again and go through DVD2One process when with Toast I can just make a Image and burn again. By the way I use under 10.3.1. Forget it I found it on Versiontracker it's called DVDPlusTool 1.0b4. Use it once and from now on your DVD+R DVD's will be mounted and recognized.

[Vintageman]

PS: I don't know if this will work with Mac installed Superdrives but like you I brought a Pioneer 106d at Best buy and installed myself.

[alkaline]

Help me please!
I have a dvd that was sucessfully burned, or so I thought!
dvd+r media(el cheapo brand), burned with toast 6 with pioneer superdrive. Plays fine on stand alone player but my frikin' computer nolonger recognises the disk!
what happened?
very confused

Does anybody already tryed to use a small application nammed "DVDPlusTools", to read the DVD+R on the Mac ?
We can find it there :

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17985

[Vintageman]

Help me please!
I have a dvd that was sucessfully burned, or so I thought!
dvd+r media(el cheapo brand), burned with toast 6 with pioneer superdrive. Plays fine on stand alone player but my frikin' computer nolonger recognises the disk!
what happened?
very confused

Does anybody already tryed to use a small application nammed "DVDPlusTools", to read the DVD+R on the Mac ?
We can find it there :

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17985

Read my post 2 up from you.

[galactica]

Why not just take the advice and stick with the -r media (at least for the future)
if you have a -r disk and the files still just burn it again, look at all the headache i will save you

ps, sine i dont have a +/-r drive can anyone confirm that if you have a +/- drive and panther you can still read the +r disks?
or does that only happen with the G5's?

[terryj]

Galactica,
on the G5 Dual 2 we have at work,
it has a SD A06, and it will read
DVD+R's we burned on a PC using DVDXCopy,
at 2x speed, on an HP branded Superdrive.
Reads these as reg DVDs through DVD Player.

specs: 8Gb of Ram, Dual 2 G5, Jag 10.2.8, A06 SD