+RW/R drive on a G4

[jamerican]

Something strange happened to me yesterday. I attached a Ricoh MP5125A (in an ADS FW/USB2 case) to my G4 867mhz. This drive works perfectly on a Compaq. Toast recognized the drive and I erased a +RW disc with it. I then did a test burn of a movie with the erased disc and, when I tried to play it on my Pioneer C503 player, the picture was very pixilated and the movie kept freezing.
Thinking it was the fault of the disc, I then recorded the same movie onto a +R disc with the same results. I then recorded the same movie on a -R disc with my Pioneer 105 Superdrive and it played perfectly on the standalone player.
It appears as if my Mac does not support DVD+RW/R burning in the present configuration (even though the drive is recognized by the Apple System Profiler).
Has anyone ever tried to use a +RW/R drive to burn DVDs on a Mac?

[Thargok]

Have you ever considered that your dvd player doesn't support it?

[jamerican]

My dvd player plays anything I throw at it. It has never failed me. I copy betweeen windoze and my mac (both ways) and play on the standalone without any problems whatsoever. This is just a peculiar situation from a test I conducted. Suffice it to say the Ricoh is back on the PC and is working perfectly as an external USB 2.0 dfrive.

[AntnyMD]

My dvd player plays anything I throw at it.

Clearly not.

[ECHO OFF]

I have a Memorex DVD+RW/+R 4x drive hooked into my 15" Powerbook G4 via Firewire. Yesterday was the first time I used it - and had only one slight problem with toast which was actually a their fault in their help section. After I found out how to correctly burn a DVD in toast (thru the forum sticky in this section) - I was good to go.

Two strange things to take note of:

1. the default combo drive in my powerbook spits the dvd right out of the drive after insert.

2. when i place a blank dvd+r in my firewired Memorex drive an error message pops up stating that the media is not correct or something as if the disc isn't recognized by mac. I choose ignore and then it's ready to burn...just wish i could get rid of that error.

...so bottomline it looks as if my mac at least does not like +media...

...my dvd player on the other hand does and that's good enough for me.

[jamerican]

...so bottomline it looks as if my mac at least does not like +media...

That's what I have also concluded, even though my FW Toshiba DVD-ROM drive will read a burned DVD+R disc.

[galactica]

...so bottomline it looks as if my mac at least does not like +media...

That's what I have also concluded, even though my FW Toshiba DVD-ROM drive will read a burned DVD+R disc.

+r/+rw is not natively supported. You can get it to work though by using an external drive and toast to burn. Which you did, as you see it was seen and was able to burn. Why it doesnt play, WHO KNOWS. Generally the rule of thumb is that +r/+rw drives dont mix well with a mac, but again - it can.

-r/-rw is the standard for a mac.

[elheroe]

...so bottomline it looks as if my mac at least does not like +media...

That's what I have also concluded, even though my FW Toshiba DVD-ROM drive will read a burned DVD+R disc.

can you please tell me what exact Toshiba DVD-Rom you're using, because i would love to copy DVD+Rs from my PC friend who only burns pluses, so you're saying that you're drive properly mounts DVD+Rs on the desktop, because if i can mount them, hence i can copy them and then burn them to a DVD-R, I always thought it was an OSX isssue which wouldn't let pluses mount only minuses, let me know ASAP, Thanks in advance!

[jamerican]

My drive is the Toshiba SD-M1612-S which I mounted in an ADS Firewire casing. I bought it because my Apple Superdrive would not mount the +RW/R discs from my Philips DVR985 recorder. Now it mounts them everytime. Hope this helps. 8)