My dvd drive won't read a homemade dvd

Jenny · 10-05-2005, 03:41 PM

Ok, so for last Christmas, I had the idea of making a dvd for my parents of Josh. Basically a slideshow of pictures set to music.

I didn't plan on doing it until I was messing around with Windows Movie Maker one day when I was bored, so that's what I ended up making it with. It turned out quite well.

But my mom wants it made into an mpg so she can put it on her computer at school.

My dvd drive won't read the disc. Scott's laptop does... Why?

Also, (& will post this in the software forum, too, but might as well ask here as well), it might just be easier to start from scratch and do it as an mpg. But what program would be good?

TIA.

Grimm · 10-06-2005, 06:37 PM

See if there is a firmware update for your drive.

Some drives are just going to have difficulty reading certain discs. A firmware update might have data to help the drive read the brand of disk you have.
Was the disc written in a format your drive supports?

webcrawler42 · 10-10-2005, 08:27 AM

its probably the firmware, i would recomend this site

http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php

GilbertsGrape · 10-10-2005, 09:14 AM

is it a RW disk. it it is a DVD RW the session is probably open and your DVD plarwe can not read the UDF format.

10-05-2005, 03:41 PM	#1
Jenny Chief of Naval Operations Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Kansas City area Posts: 10,947	My dvd drive won't read a homemade dvd Ok, so for last Christmas, I had the idea of making a dvd for my parents of Josh. Basically a slideshow of pictures set to music. I didn't plan on doing it until I was messing around with Windows Movie Maker one day when I was bored, so that's what I ended up making it with. It turned out quite well. But my mom wants it made into an mpg so she can put it on her computer at school. My dvd drive won't read the disc. Scott's laptop does... Why? Also, (& will post this in the software forum, too, but might as well ask here as well), it might just be easier to start from scratch and do it as an mpg. But what program would be good? TIA. __________________ Check out my spoilers for over 20 shows @ SpoilerFix.com Check out my TV blog, where I post weekly & daily TV schedules, TV news, interviews with TV stars & more! All new TV forums as well @ TV Is My Pacifier

10-10-2005, 08:27 AM	#3
webcrawler42 Lieutenant Junior Grade Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 105	its probably the firmware, i would recomend this site http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php __________________ http://webcrawler42.atspace.com/

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10-06-2005, 06:37 PM	#2
Grimm 100% Pure Evil Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 7,861	See if there is a firmware update for your drive. Some drives are just going to have difficulty reading certain discs. A firmware update might have data to help the drive read the brand of disk you have. Was the disc written in a format your drive supports?

10-10-2005, 09:14 AM	#4
GilbertsGrape Captain Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: You can’t get there from here, USA Posts: 1,797	is it a RW disk. it it is a DVD RW the session is probably open and your DVD plarwe can not read the UDF format.

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