A small macintosh problem

[HanYao]

My problem is a basic one, but i have no idea how to fix it.
I want to make a cd with some movie files ive downloaded.(mpeg, avi, asf) because i dont have enough room on my pc to store them.
My father recently bought a mac that can burn cds(yes my pc cant...).
Anyways, i transfer the files on the mac and then i burned a data cd and i drag and dropped the movie folder i put all the movies in in the diskcopy program for mac. When the cd finished burning, i put it in my pc, but it cant recognise the disk. I cant even open the d: drive. It says my cd is corrupt or not formatted. Then i put the cd in my dvd/vcd drive but it doesnt work.

What i want to do is use my fathers macintosh and burn a cd where there are avi., asf., and mpeg file, which my pc and dvd/vcd player can read. Ive seen cds that contains mpeg and avi files that my pc, my father's mac, and my dvd/vcd reads(well the vcd player only read the mpeg).

Can anyone help me by telling which type of cd type i should make (data, video, other...), or what burning program i should use to make my cd.

Thanks in advance.

[WiseWeasel]

We'll need some more info. What OS is he running (specific version)? What kind of Mac is it? How are you burning the CDs? I assume you just stick in a blank CD-R, and do the burning in the Finder. If so, do you get a popup menu that lets you choose the format once you stick in a CD-R (maybe defaulted to MacOS Extended)? What are your options there, and which did you choose? This should be easy to resolve.
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Since you described your options as Data, Video and Other, I guess you're using Toast. Put it in Data mode and set the format to PC/Mac hybrid. Then drag your folder of files onto the main window, or hit the 'New Disc' (or something similar) button and drag your movie files there.
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[AntnyMD]

Anyways, i transfer the files on the mac and then i burned a data cd and i drag and dropped the movie folder i put all the movies in in the diskcopy program for mac. When the cd finished burning, i put it in my pc, but it cant recognise the disk. I cant even open the d: drive. It says my cd is corrupt or not formatted. Then i put the cd in my dvd/vcd drive but it doesnt work.

When you burn a CD on a Mac as you've described, it is burned using the HFS+ file system so it can only be read on a Mac. This doesn't mean it is corrupted as Windows says ... Windows is just being (yet again) hostile to the Mac world.

In order to make your disc readable on both Macs and in Windows, you'll need to use Mac software that burns straight Windows discs (Macs can read those, too) or as a Mac/Windows hybrid. Toast is your easiest route there. There may be freeware options available. Can anyone list those?