I have had a few DVD rentals that won't work on my PC with DVD-ROM drive but will play on my Toshiba DVD player. The PC doesn't recognize a disk has been inserted. I am using an LG drive that plays ewll most DVD, Divx, Xvid, VCD&SVCD movies. One of the movies was store bought and brand new. What's up ?
Hello How is the DVD loaded into the Computer? I have found that some DVD don't track well if loaded by auto feed system. Also on my notebook if I don't make sure all three ball bearings have clamped on the disc, it will not be reconized. If you have a tray loader, I have no idea I have never heard of a problem with tray loaders. Hope this helps.
I am also having a problem with a few DVD's I have recently burned. They play ok on my set-top DVD player but when I load them into the same DVD burner they were made on they are not recognized as dvd's. I am not certain what program I used to burn these DVD's as I was running trial copies of Ulead DVD Workshop, Media Studio 6.5 and MovieFactory2 at the time. I seem to recall a setting in one of the programs I was using that was called something along the lines of "allow disc to be copied?" and wonder if that was active when I burned these DVD's and is causing my problem but frankly I am not sure where I may have seen that option. The disc spins up and them Windows says unable to read. My player programs all say "no disc in tray" or some such thing. BUT...take the disc to my set-top player and it plays as designed. I really need to make a back up copy of some of these DVD's. Is there some way to force the copying of what I know is on these discs??? Help please! PS: I used virtualDub, Premiere 6.0 and TMPGenc to create all of these (I think) and my system is as follows: Pentium IV 2.4GHz, 512M RDRAM, 40GB system drive, 2 X 60 GB drives in RAID 0 for video capture, Edit, etc., Sony DRU120A DVD+RW/R burner, ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 7500 AGP Video/capture card.
skysail1 Thats really odd, I have only observed the oposite. I don't think that the allow disc to be copied setting will make a differnece, When I get a disc that is not reconized I sometimes have to reboot WinXP and assure that the disc is fully pressed into the three bearing drive area. With some discs (the cheap ones) the center circle is not cleanly cut out and in my tray loading DVD player, it has a hard time grabing it. But with my Computer the drive comes out and I physically press it into the drive. I don't know what to tell you, try a rebot and see if that works.
