Sijun Forums :: View topic - Mac-PC DVD non-compatibility?

Godwin · Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 4:41 am

Okay, so after going through a ton of trouble to finally successfully burn (or so I thought) a piece of work onto DVD-R on an Apple G5 (I don't have a DVD writed at home so I used the G5 at my old school) for submission to a competition, it turns out the disc can't be read on my home computer's (tried on two with different drives) CD/DVD combo drive.

I even double-confirmed on the mac itself to see if the file was on the disc, and it was. Yet all I get on winXP is a blank disc reading 0 bytes capacity and 0 bytes free.

I'm at a loss of what to do, whether to just send the disc in anyhow or try to get it burned elsewhere (it seems no one I know has a dvd burner!), don't know if it's my hardware problem (I can't find newer drivers though), or the mac's. Just wanted to hear if anyone else has had such experiences before?
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B0b · Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 12:37 pm

did u write the disk with the ISO 9660 file format or the HSF Mac format?

Godwin · Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 3:09 am

Oh shit? I don't remember seeing an option for that? But I believe it's the HSF Mac format because that's what Nero reads it as. Erm I guess there's no turning back now?
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B0b · Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 4:25 am

get yourself a copy of transmac and you'll be able to read Mac Formated disks on your PC Smile

Godwin · Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 2:22 am

Hey that's pretty cool, thanks! Anyways I've submitted the work and they were able to process it (guess they got macs), so all's well I suppose Smile

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