Apple DVD-R won't work on PC drive

[juddh]

A friend burned a DVD-R on his Mac Powerbook (one of the new model ones, with the wide screen). Contents were mainly data & some music files (m4u format). The disk was Apple brand, with Apple logo and labeled "DVD-R". I think he used Toast but I'm not certain about that.

I couldn't read the disk on any of my PC DVD-ROM drives, from a Presario Pentium 3 machine to a new model HP P4 notebook computer, as well as a P4 Dell Optiplex. Sometimes the machines could sense a disk was there, but couldn't read anything on it.

Is there any way to work around this Mac/PC compatibility issue? If I could just read the disk, I have the proper codecs on my PC to play the m4u files. We tried transferring some of them via a flash drive and it wasn't a problem.

sorry if this has been asked. I searched thru the forums and couldn't find a reference to this problem.

thanks.
J

[The village idiot]

Best work around would be to buy a copy of MacOpener 2000. It allows windows computers to read the Mac formated disks.

[txpharoah]

It has a MAC FILE SYSTEM. It's not the DVD media itself.

Use Gemulator Explorer. It's 100% FREEWARE.
http://www.emulators.com/download.htm
It's near the bottom of the page.
It'll let Windows read any Mac format on any Mac disk/disc.

[alenhard]

I use Apple DVD-Rs all the time on my PC. In fact, I like them more than most other discs. I am aware that Apple does make a special kind of DVD-r that is NOT compatible with any drives other than Apple's own. I saw some for sale on newegg with a note about them being different somehow. Check out Apple's site if you really need more info. So the disc you have could be one of those.

[alenhard]

Just read Tx's post- I guess you can read those discs after all with an emulator. Good to know!

[juddh]

Thank you for suggesting Gemulator. I tried the program. Unfortunately it does not seem to support DVD, only CD.

I may have to try the non-freeware product.

thanks
J