the disk being initialized prior to the recording.
This is not normal on a DVD on a Mac and I don't recall seeing it done on a DVD on a Windows machine.
I have seen it done on a PC, for burning a CD, using a method, whose name I forget, where the disk is initialized and mounts as a Drive Letter. Data can be dragged to that drive letter and then burned.
To read that disk, other users have to have the same software installed on their machine. Not good.
Could it be that your Player/Recorder has special software that will allow it to burn a DVD and read it but not in a regular DVD player.
The Mac is seeing that DVD as a blank disk, hence the questions as to what you want to do with it, and by choosing the Finder, it mounts the disk on the desktop. Your G4 should have a CD burner installed so the option should also have been to open another application.
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I have burnt a DVD-RW on an external Player/Recorder by the brand of SILVA-Schneider. The recording was made in LP-mode and the DVD initialized prior to the recording. (There was no option to finalize it). The DVD shows the recording on a connected TV a-ok. If I insert it into my Powerbook G4-1GHz running MacOS 10.4.10 it says there is an empty DVD and what should it do to it (eject, ignore or opening the finder). If I choose open with finder, a symbol of CDR by the name of new CD will show up on the desktop - but no content. Any commercial DVDs are playing with no problem. I can't say what a computer burnt DVD would do, because my drive is a read only. Any helpful suggestion would be very much appreciated.

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