Help with viewing Mac DVD on Windows 10?

[LouAvul]

I have a DVD that was made on Mac equipment. It will not play on my PC w/Win 10.

The gentleman who recorded it said to download MP4 converter to my computer. I did so. (VLC)

I inserted the disc and got to where I selected the option for disc type. "DVD." No dice. I selected the other type that I think is the abbreviation for the Mac type?

Anyway. The DVD is not playing with MP4 "converter" or the "player."

Very hinky.

What am I doing wrong?

[LouAvul]

the original creator did not “finish” the process or just copied it to a DVD without properly burning it

Could you elaborate on that? What's involved in the above?

[LouAvul]

Open just that file with VLC.

Yes, I tried that. It doesn't show anything at all.

[Do_Tar]

> Your main hold up appears to be you’re not using a Mac

I was going to say the main problem is being friends with someone that uses a MAC. 😛

[LouAvul]

I took their advice but still nothing.

If there is an MP4 file on that disk

Nothing shows up on the file. There's nothing there.

[Flick Lives]

Does the file have a suffix? If not, the PC might not know what type of file it is.

If all else fails, you might, as previously suggested, have your friend encode it in another video format.

[ApplegateRanch]

Deja vu all over again?

Wasn't it last weekend, or the one before that this exact post was posted? Maybe both?

[Inyo-Mono]

It sure was.

[Weirdad]

It is either a mac formatted disk that your computer cannot read, or he made a mistake and did not copy it properly or did not finalize the disk.

If you can have him re-do it that would be best. Otherwise all you can do is what others have suggested and find various software solutions to look for Mac specific file systems — I think this would be both difficult, might involved having to pay for some versions, and if he did not make the disk right anyway then it might not work anyway.

I hope things work out for you on it. Keep us posted if you figure it out.

[itsahoot]

Yes. He watched about 11 minutes of it.

I would ask him to just copy the MP4 file to any media he has. Might help if he used a windows format and a Mac can read or write most any format. Thumb drives are cheap and plentiful.