Posted on 08/09/2022 8:37:00 AM PDT by LouAvul
An acquaintance recorded an event on a dvd with Macintosh equipment. The dvd plays fine on his mac computer.
He gave me a copy but the dvd will not play on my PC (Windows 10) computer.
All I'm getting is, "files ready to be written to the disc (1)" and underneath that is the line: "desktop 8-7-22 5.0 configrua 1kb"
I click on the second line, "desktop, etc", and get an image of a notepad with a downward arrow then, "[.ShellClassInfo] localized resource name system root, etc. .dll"
Will a dvd recorded on mac equipment not play on a PC? Or is there something going on with the disc?
My acquaintance is looking into it on his end, but meanwhile, I'm also trying to figure it out.
I've actually tried to play it on two separate desktops and one laptop, all with Windows 10. A sony dvd player and a sanyo dvd player. All to no avail.
thanks
First thoughts are ...
Recorded on DVD+R and disc ‘not closed’ session still open.
Take it back to source and get the closure done there.
In the end DVD-R is better.
What is the file extension?
Sounds like,maybe the file format is Mac specific? You might need codecs so to play it on windows computer.
If you have VLC. Media player, it might be able to play it. Worth a try. It’s a free player, and a well respected one.
Can you read any contents via Windows File Explorer?
What is the format of ‘the event’? Mp4, Mpeg, MOV, AVI are some common video formats. If Windows File Explorer can read the file list, you might be able to copy the video file to Windows and play it.
It could be that the DVD is corrupted.
More info is needed to diagnose the problem.
I installed the free VLC media player and my Windows computer and it pretty much plays everything media no matter where recorded or what codec format used. Suggest trying that option for free.
Put it in a REAL DVD player and see what happens.
If it doesn’t work, then the problem is probably it was not recorded correctly.
If it works, then it’s your setup.
“First thoughts are ...”
Windows cannot read iOS formatted discs!
“Will a dvd recorded on mac equipment not play on a PC? Or is there something going on with the disc?”
Did you bother to Google this first?
Windows needs a codec that you have to purchase from MS. Or you can download a 3rd party program to play it like VLC.
You’ve probably got an APFS formatted disk (APple File System), but if your friend has a very old Mac, might be an older file system like HSF+.
But assuming that it’s APFS, you’ll need a third party utility in order to get the disk to be readable on Windows 10 or 11 unless Microsoft has very recently published a native driver.
Best bet is to verify on your windows machine the correct windows version, and then use Google to find the most current driver or third party software, using APFS and your windows version in the search term. There used to be a company called “paragon software” that had a solution, but can’t vouch for current viability. Worth a try though.
DVDs as a video playable format (DVD-R or DVD+R) need to have mpeg2 video 525 (NTSC) or 625 (PAL) lines, Dolby AC-3 or PCM audio. Upon conclusion of the recording the disc needs to be finalized by the recorder to be interchangeable with other DVD players in computers or stand alone players.
DVD-R or +R could also be used for data recording, which could include HD video sizes and bit rates, VLC player could likely play those files.
windows CDs usually play fine on Macs, but not the other way around.
Thoughts? Pings?
I learned about finalizing DVDS early on and would suggest the same thing.
Does your friend's computer look like this?.....................
I did that once with a computer question, and a pop-up asked "Did you check with FReepers first?"
That was my thought as well. I could imagine:
- disk not in standard DVD format
- disk session not closed
- media is using codec not available on PC by default (VLC is a free download that could be used to play it)
- filesystem on disk is MacOS formatted and PC can’t read it.
- error in disk writing could cause problems
- PC’s disk reader has problems with this particular type of media (more frequent with older devices)
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