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problems with DVD /drive??

Sep 20, 2006 8:17AM PDT

So i burned some dvds on the MB with MacTheRipper. I had followed instructions which were given in one of the previous threads and they worked fine.

My problem now is that when i put the DVDs in the MB for viewing.....only a whrring sound comes and feels like MB is trying hard to open it...but nothing happens. I have made it default for CD,DVDs to pen in Finder so the CD/DVD icon comes up. But when i put inthe DVDs (the ones i burned with MTR)..they dont show up on the desktop.

So next i have a commercial VCD..i put inthat and the VCD shows up and i am able to watch it. I noticed that if i put the burned DVDs after i open the VCD..then the DVDs work fine and i can watch the contents.

So everytime i want to watch the DVDs..i have to put in the VCD,watch for some time, remove that and then put the DVD and it works fine.

Where do u think is the problem...why doesnt the DVD show up when i use it regularly??

K

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Burning out of MTR
Sep 20, 2006 11:39AM PDT

This is something that I avoid doing. I have found that Toast will do this task admirably and have had no problems with MTR creating the files, DVD2OneX compressing them and Toast burning them.

I know this does not help your current problem but there may be something within MTR that causes the initial lurch.

Do you have Toast?

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nopes
Sep 21, 2006 2:14AM PDT

dont have toast,

so u think MTR might have created some problem with the way it burned these movies?

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It's a possibility
Sep 21, 2006 3:54AM PDT

As I said, I have never burned out of MTR so I cannot be sure that everything is ok.
Once you have used MTR, is it capable of compressing the files it created so that they all fit on a DVD?


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