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dvd-r will not play on my laptopPosted by John
John, DVD players on Windows laptops are frequent problems. I use a Toshiba at the office and had a similar problem. Autoplay was deselected for the DVD drive by default. Go figure. (Must be a Windows conspiracy to make people's lives miserable.)
Activating Autoplay helped but did not cure the problem, as it still comes up occasionally. When that happens, I remove the DVD, launch the DVD player software (WinDVD in this case), and then re-insert the DVD into the drive. WinDVD seems to find it then. Again, go figure. (My Mac looks better every day.) If that still doesn't work, try launching the DVD player on the laptop, and asking it to manually open the DVD. I've had to do that a couple times, and it usually worked. The last thing to check is whether the problem goes away with a different brand of disk. Some players are unreliable with certain brands of disks. Good luck. Bob Rice
It is possible, though few people create DVDs in a way where it's likely to happen.
If you simply copy the VIDEO_TS folder to a DVD, you are creating a data DVD. Some copy programs give you the option of leaving the disk open (sometimes called "not closed". That allows you to add more stuff to the disk later. So, if you are simply copying the folders, you have the potential to create what you think is a video DVD that is still open -- and therefore unusable on many DVD players. Whenever you use a DVD application (like DVDSP) to burn the disk, it will always be closed. I'm not sure if Toast gives you the option. Bob Rice Sorry, you do not have permission to post/reply in this forum.
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