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ApolloLight - May 6, 2006 - 9:01 am

Hello


A friend recently installed a PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109 into my Mac as I am not very technical. The Drive will let me play music from a CD but it doesn't read or play DVDs. In the system profiler where it gives more information on the PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109 it says that Disc Burning is not supported.

This means that i can only use this as a CD player whereas i need to burn CDs and DVDs and also occasionally play DVDs from the computer. It would be really great if you could help me with this. As I said i'm not very technical so i'm truly confused. My operating system is Mac OS X 10.3.2.

thanks
Kieran

bobw - May 6, 2006 - 9:06 am

Hi Lieran

Downlaod and install PatchBurn for support;

http://www.patchburn.de/

bobw
http://www.macosx.com

ApolloLight - May 6, 2006 - 2:47 pm

hello bob,

thanks for your speedy response. i downloaded and installed the patchburn for Mac OSX. It seems like the dvr-109 drive now reads cds and i think i'll be able to burn cds as well. the problem is still there with DVDs. they won't play on the computer? I have no DVD player installed so could this be the problem? I was told that DVD playing software is part of the DVR-109, but i'm not sure. As i said i'm a bit technically stupid. If you can help me with this further it would be great.

thanks again,

Kieran

ApolloLight - May 6, 2006 - 2:47 pm

hello bob,

thanks for your speedy response. i downloaded and installed the patchburn for Mac OSX. It seems like the dvr-109 drive now reads cds and i think i'll be able to burn cds as well. the problem is still there with DVDs. they won't play on the computer? I have no DVD player installed so could this be the problem? I was told that DVD playing software is part of the DVR-109, but i'm not sure. As i said i'm a bit technically stupid. If you can help me with this further it would be great.

thanks again,

Kieran

bobw - May 6, 2006 - 4:27 pm

Kieran

DVD software is only installed on the machine when there's a DVD player isnatlled from Apple, usually.

You can use Pacifist
http://www.charlessoft.com/

to extract the DVD player from your 10.3 disc.

You could also just use VLC to play DVD's (free);

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14738

bobw
http://www.macosx.com