DVD will not play on the Mac that I burned it with! Toast 8 Issue?

[Huntr777]

Hi again all, very weird problem here, has anybody else had this problem?

I authored and made a disk image from iDVD (latest version). I used Toast 8.0 to burn the disc, just dragged the video folder on to the Video_TS part of Toast 8 and started it burning. It burned with no problems, and I put it in my standalone burner and it played just fine. Then, I wanted to make a copy of it, and put it in the drive, and to my surprise the Mac just spits it back out again! I figured maybe the disc was dirty and the drive couldn’t read it…but that wasn’t the problem. It won't even recognize the disc. I have tried it on a few Macs at work…one G4 spit it out, the other G5 played it fine.

These are the first discs I burned using Toast 8, perhaps that’s the problem?

I’m using a 1.6 G5 with 10.4.3 (I believe that’s the latest). Any idea why this is happening? Any way I can get my Mac to not keep spitting out this disc, and have it mount?

Thanks to all for the help!

Tom

[dnix71]

I would suspect it's the type of dmg you made. You can't make a UDF burning from the Finder, which is what a dvd is supposed to be, so iDVD probably can't do it either. I use Toast to author my stuff, give it a simple menu and burn it, and have had no problems.

If you have access to a pc, look at the discs' file structure in isobuster and see if it's proper.

[Huntr777]

I would suspect it's the type of dmg you made. You can't make a UDF burning from the Finder, which is what a dvd is supposed to be

I don't think that's the problem since I did the same exact routine with Toast 7...and did things the same exact way with no problems whatsoever...

T

[Mark V]

I had the same problem. Mine was a failing drive that was taking a dump. I replaced the drive and everything is OK now.

[SERBIAN]

You can't make a UDF burning from the Finder, which is what a dvd is supposed to be, so iDVD probably can't do it either.

iDVD makes valid UDF disk images...Try to burn on different media or burn image created with iDVD using Finder...

[willrob]

I periodically have had this happen with various Pioneer drives: a disk burned with either Toast, iDVD or even iTunes Cds, will not mount. It's not consistent, so i can't offer a solution. I did discover that the disk would mount if I left it in the DVD drive and restarted the computer. It might be cache related.

[rumplestiltskin]

Not sure if this is your issue but my Macs (all Intel models) refuse to burn +R media consistently; they only seem happy with Verbatim -R and will tolerate other high-quality -R brands, as well.

[Huntr777]

Once again, I'm thinking that it has to be a Toast 8 issue, since nothing has changed between using 7 and 8. Same media, same programs. Has anybody else had any problems with 8?

T

[Frobozz]

A few people have complained at the Roxio Toast 8 forum about discs that didn't work right after burning. There are some things in your first post that don't seem quite right, though.

You mention OS 10.4.3. Toast 8 requires 10.4.8. That may just be a typo on your post.

To burn a disc image with Toast use the Image File setting in the Copy window. You didn't need to mount the image and drag the VIDEO_TS to the Video window.

I'd try burning the disc at slower than Best speed. The higher-speed burning may have caused the problem where some drives are having trouble reading the directory when the disc is inserted.

[Huntr777]

Yeah I'm using 10.4.8...and the funny thing is the disc will play on a Mac using 10.3! Crazy huh? I guess something in Toast 8 doesn't play nice with 10.4.8. I'll try burning it using the 10.3, and see if that will make any difference on my Mac or not. I'm thinking that I'll probably have to start all over again and re-capture and re-author this one.

Tom

[Huntr777]

Here's a new wrinkle...I decided to delete Toast 8 and reinstall Toast 7. I did that, and burned a disc...and that disc will not play in my Mac either! At this point I am going to trash the preferecnes files for Toast 7 and 8 and then restart. Then see if that makes any difference...anybody care to weigh in with what else I can try?

Oh, and it's not a hardware issue because store bought DVD's work just fine, my own burned discs (with Toast 7.0) work fine, and audio discs work just fine. It seems the problems started the day I installed Toast 8. I wonder if somehow a preference could be to blame for all of this...anyone?

H777