[Paul Bennett]

Hey there. Im having a slight problem. As a school project we made a dvd movie, (complete with menue, etc). It works fine in a DVD player, but when I put it into my DVD ROM drive, nothing happens. The drive plays any other DVDs fine. I have watched plenty of other movies.

Windows: Windows XP5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180
Memory (RAM): 759 MB
CPU Info: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.80GHz
CPU Speed: 2790.0 MHz
Sound card: SoundMAX Digital Audio
Display Adapters: Intel® 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family | Intel® 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family | NetMeeting driver | RDPDD Chained DD |
Screen Resolution: 1024 X 768
Network: Network Present
Network Adapters: WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface |
CD / DVD: D: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8163B | E: TSSTcorpCD-RW TS-H292B |
Default Printer: Dell Photo Printer 720
COM Ports: COM3 | COM1 |
LPT Ports: LPT1
Mouse: 3 Button Wheel Mouse Present
Hard Disks: C: 33.5GB |
Hard Disks - Free: C: 15.9GB |
USB Controllers: Detected: 5 host controllers.
Firewire (1394): Not Detected
PCMCIA (Laptops): Not Installed
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
AC Power Status: OnLine
BIOS Info: AT/AT COMPATIBLE | 06/22/05 | DELL - 7 | |
Time Zone: Eastern Standard Time
Battery: No Battery

The drive is the D: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8163B

The DVD was burned with Final Cut Pro and iDVD. The movie is homemade.

What could be the problem? Something with region codes? The media?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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Hi. There is no guarantee that all dvd media will work in all drives, particularly one that you burned yourself. I have a home made video (very well done) made by a family member that was sent to me. It will not play on some of my computers, but will on others. It won't play in my Toshiba dvd player hooked up to my tv, but it will play on a samsung vhs/dvd combo in my daughters room. Go figure. You could spend hours trying to figure this out, and it still won't work. Or you could just accept it as is and move on. www.afterdawn.com is a good place to go for video help.

[austin_o]

Hi. There is no guarantee that all dvd media will work in all drives, particularly one that you burned yourself. I have a home made video (very well done) made by a family member that was sent to me. It will not play on some of my computers, but will on others. It won't play in my Toshiba dvd player hooked up to my tv, but it will play on a samsung vhs/dvd combo in my daughters room. Go figure. You could spend hours trying to figure this out, and it still won't work. Or you could just accept it as is and move on. www.afterdawn.com is a good place to go for video help.

[Paul Bennett]

Thanks austin. I figured it might be something like that. I wont worry with it. It dosent really matter anyway.

Thanks for your help man.