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Read DVD+RW disks in SuperDrives System
Whilst opening Disk Utility on my new G5 I noticed that it's standard super drive (Pioneer DVR-106D) has listed under it's capabilities CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW. Unable to resist, I fed in a DVD+RW from my old Dell PC and Hey Presto it opened! I had a DVD image on it and although DVD Player launched it didn't seem to be able to read the disk.

However, I could browse the disk in Finder and copy files from it to my Hard Drive. Once I had copied the VIDEO_TS folder over from the DVD to my hard drive it played fine.

Just thought maybe some of the readers, like me, hadn't even thought to try DVD+ media in their Superdrive. Maybe if they do it'll work too!

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Read DVD+RW disks in SuperDrives
Authored by: elmimmo on Jan 16, '04 12:18:55PM

Uh... How about manually launching the DVD Player application and doing File/Open VIDEO_TS folder? That is exactly what that command is there for.

Duh!



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Read DVD+RW disks in SuperDrives
Authored by: dabeatles on Jan 16, '04 03:20:01PM

I've tried this before with a DVD+R burned on a PC on my 15" AlPB. It just refuses to do it.



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Read DVD+RW disks in SuperDrives
Authored by: fds on Jan 16, '04 07:26:45PM

The Combo Drive in my PowerBook G4 (a MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8121A), has always been able to read DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs just fine, including playing DVD movies from it. (The icon just read DVD-RW when I inserted a DVD+RW disc.)

Then after I upgraded to Panther, the drive can now read DVD+R discs too. This was wonderful news for me back then; I always thought it was a hardware limitation and not a software one.
(The icons too show the +R or +RW correctly.)

On the other hand, DVD Player refuses to play DVD movies burned on DVD+R discs. I can copy it over and play from there with the open VIDEO_TS folder method though. Of course this requires a non-CSS protected DVD.

If I wrote data or .mov or .avi videos on the DVD+R, those can be played fine directly.



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