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Hi,
I just got my new external firewire Lacie d2 DVD-/+RW 4x burner, but I've having problems making a backup of a DVD that I have and getting it to play on my standalone player. It plays fine on my Macintosh G4 450 MHz in "Apple DVD player", but it won't even register on my PC at all and certainly not in my Sony NS-325/b DVD player.
I ripped the DVD using OSEx to get a nice unencrypted VIDEO_TS folder weighing in at about 7.38 GB.
I then had DVD2OneX take that fat boy and trim him down to a nice svelt 4472 MB (it's default for fitting stuff onto one DVD-R). This produced another VIDEO_TS folder, but of the right size.
Then I made a folder with the name of the original DVD (SPACED) and put the VIDEO_TS folder in there along with an empty folder I made called AUDIO_TS. I dragged the master folder into Toast Titanium 5.2.1 (in Other > DVD mode) and it made this:
disc: SPACED
--> VIDEO_TS
--> AUDIO_TS
all fine and good, right? I even made sure that Toast didn't add in any nasty files of its own.
So I burned it onto a Ritek DVD-R 4x media at 2x speed (4x speed has been crappy for me) and put the resulting DVD-R into my Sony DVP NS-325/b and... "cannot read disc". :( So then I tested that disc in my Apple DVD-ROM (not a burner at all) drive and automatically Apple DVD Player started up upon insertion of this DVD-R and played it just perfectly.
So what's going wrong here? Why can my Mac play the DVD I made, but not my standalone player (which supposedly the NS-325/b plays almost anything you throw at it)? Why can't my PC's DVD-ROM drive not even read the folders on the disc?
I suspect Toast is doing something weird, but it's my only burning prog for the Mac (the native "disc burner" will not work with external burners, like mine). But I have no idea. It could be the Ritek media, but they are supposed to be great.
What should I do next? Many thanks in advance,
spk
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