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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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