My friend gave me a burned cd which he burned on his iMac. I put it in the drive and it get's all geared up then nothing. I opened the DVD manually and try to play the files but they aren't even able to be selected. They are light grey like this.
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MacBook Pro
I have been burning CDs in Itunes on my iMac for a long time, but all of a sudden, the cds I burn won't play on my home stereo. They will play in my car. I've read about the 80 minute cds giving problems, but I have burned them before with no problem. Yes, I checked "Audio CD".
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Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2GB MB memory
I bought some -R DVDs. I want to burn a 700 MB .avi video onto a DVD so I can play it in my DVD player on my television. I put in -R disk, clicked on the DVD icon when it appeared on the computer screen, pasted in the video file I wanted to burn and it seemed to burn it but when I had finished, I put the DVD into my DVD player connected to television and when I clicked 'play' nothing played, there was just a grey screen.
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Mac OS X (10.4.11), Apple Imac G4, SuperDrive
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Macbook Pro 13", Mac OS X (10.6.4)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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MacBook
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iMovie (iOS)
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