Hey, I have checked everywhere but cant seem to find the exact answer to my problem. I capy a dvd with dvdbackup and compress it with dvd2one. This seems to work fine. Next i put the Video_ts folder into toast's dvd section and burn a dvd+r. This should work fine but when it is finished and i try to open it in the apple dvd player i get an error: "could not detect a valid media file [777771-]" The dvd player can play the compressed file fine, just not the file written to the dvd+r. Please can anyone help me...i have wasted 3 dvds already. Is it to do with the +r format? Would it help if i used toast 6 as i am currently using toast 5. Thanks in advance for your help, sorry if i missed the answer to this elswhere. cheers Splend
Dude, you have to remove the .DS store files in toast for it to work. Just search for those files in your AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders. Then go to the Edit menu and choose "Clear".
I too tried copying from a dvd to a my harddrive using DVDBackup. File size was less than 4 gig. I then dropped the whole folder into Toast 5. I saw the file DS_Store and deleted it. I still can't get the nurned DVD to work on any conventional DVD players. Works fine on my G5 using DVD Player and file>open. Wha next?
you need to make sure that the file you put into toast was the VIDEO_TS file. I didn't delete the file you mentioned and it works fine in the dvd player connected to the tv
Are you using a cheap dvd-player? The ones that almost only plays the dvd-ram format? because then the problem is pretty obvious. Which movie is it by the way? If you give me your e-mail I can send you a guide that works everytime.
Panther willl recognise any of the four formats meaning that you can read and burn data from the finder to a DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW but Mac applications like iDVD or DVDPlayer will only work with the -R format. Under Jaguar DVDPlayer will work with DVD-R and DVD-RW but you can not use +R/+RW even from the finder.
You might be asking "what does all this mean?" Well, the way my buddies solved this problem was they went out and purchased portable DVD players (without screens) so they could plug them into their laptop and watch their DVD's if using any other format besides -R. In time this problem will be solved but it's a lot like the problem where older CD players can't read CD's that have been burnt on a computer.
If you want to watch a movie that is in any of the formats that DVDPlayer do not recognise you only have to save the movie as a disk image in the HD and mount it. Launch DVDPlayer and manually open the Video_TS folder. No need to buy a portable DVD player.
