Mac's and PC's use different file formats for data disc, but a DVD is a DVD. Assuming the Mac has a DVD drive and the software to play the movie, it should work. I haven't had a Mac in years, so I can't test it. __________________________________
CORNBLOSSOM

Does it recognize the disc at all? Can you read the files on the disc, but not play the movie, for example? __________________________________
CORNBLOSSOM

Derek -

That seems like an odd issue. My Mac reads almost anything you throw at it. In fact my experience is completely the opposite - it's more often PC's that have trouble reading files created on a Mac.

As Jaime said: A DVD is a DVD, so I can't see any reason - based on the information you provided - that it wouldn't work.

Cheers - Tony
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Derek

How did you burn the DVD exactly. Did you burn it to a folder and then go from there? OR did you burn it directly?

If you burned it to a folder and then burned from the folder, you have essentially burned a data DVD. From my experience these folders are sometimes (more often than not now) recognized on regular DVD players, because a lot of them are designed to read data DVDs. MACs however, will read the DVD as a bunch of .vob files, not as a cohesive DVD.

This may not be your problem, but this is certainly one that I ran into at one point and this is what what explained to me as to why the DVDs didn't work in a MAC computer, so thought this just may be of some help.

Well - I think Derek's gone and a bunch of people who don't have the problem are chatting amongst ourselves. Anyway...


On my desk is a PC (desktop), a Mac (running OSX 10.4) and a laptop (occasionally).

I play with PD and make discs by both methods (depending on how big the file is... I burn shorts straight out of PD). I only make discs to give to other people. I test them in each computer (especially if a disc is going to a MacFriend)... then I test them in 3 different DVD players.

Never - not once - has the Mac failed to read a disc as intended. I mean - if there's no menu it goes into autoplay (just as on a DVD player). Sometimes one or other of the DVD players has needed adjusting to show correctly, but that's about it.

That's my experience anyway.

Cheers - Tony
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I'm still here :.

I just am not able to check e-mail often.

I burned it straight from Power Director, not from a folder.

My friend's Mac Support guy, seems to think it might be the DVD reader on my friend's Mac because it works on his Mac.

Anyway, thanks for the help. If nothing else, it has given me ways to think about the problem.

Thanks again,
Derek

Great to hear that you might have an answer. There are so many variables, I guess that's why Tony tried his DVDs out on so many different options before he gifts them.