A friend of mine lent me his Despecialized DVDs so that I could copy them (since I have consistently failed to download and burn the movies myself). I succesfully copied the data on his disc to my desktop and proceeded to burn it all to my blank disc. After the burn was complete, I was still unable to play the disc. The computer recognizes his disc as a movie and can play without fault, but my disc is still seen as a removable drive rather than a movie disc and, even though all the information is on the disc, Windows DVD player does not recognize it as a playable disc. Have I missed a step somewhere?
The computer I am using is a HP G61-327CL notebook with Windows 10.
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Update: tried DVD+RW with same results
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Sounds like you used the Live File System (Windows refers to this as “Like a USB flash drive”) instead of a mastered disc format.
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second that. it sounds like you did a ‘copy paste’ of the data from the disk to a directory on your computer, and then burned a data disk using that folder, not a dvd-rom. Use ImgBurn, and instruct it to make an image file from your friends dvd. then burn that image file you your blank dvd.
Followed your suggestions and burned the .iso to my disc. It played in the computer, but only after I went to the iso on the disc in file explorer and opened it with VLC, whereas my friend’s disc plays automatically. However, just putting the two discs in my Blu-Ray player came up with an interesting result; his disc was unreadable (simply called “Unknown”, where my disc was read as a data DVD that had no playable files.
I made sure to select “Mastered DVD” rather than “Like a USB flash drive” when burning, so I don’t know what’s going on there.
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if you see a file with the iso extension on your burned disc, you did it wrong. when you burn, make sure you are burning an disc image! (ie, the iso contains a copy of the filesystem of the original dvd, when you burn this iso back to disc, you need to burn the iso as an image. that recreates the original filesystem. if you put the iso ‘on’ the disc, then you are just creating a data dvd, with the iso file on it.
in img burn this option is just called ‘burn iso to disc’, but in many other cd/dvd burning programs it is called writing an image to disc.
are you sure this is what you did? sorry you keep making so many coasters :p
http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?/topic/6380-how-to-copy-a-disc-using-imgburn/
Ah, okay. I haven’t actually made many coasters, though, just one. The disc I’m working with now is +RW rather that +R so I can erase and rewrite it forever.
My disc now exactly matches his disc, for better or worse. It plays perfectly in the computer, but no other player, DVD, BD, etc. recognizes it as anything playable. I suppose I could try it on my PS4 but I doubt that would be any different. I’ll mess with it some more tomorrow afternoon, I guess.
Thank you for all your help, and apologies my incessant noobishness.
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[already solved - never mind]
Update: Played perfectly on my PlayStation. I guess my normal DVD players just have a problem with burnt DVDs. ¯\ _(ツ)_/¯
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