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bobright

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Jun 29, 2010
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I burned a DVD and want to play it, I see it mounted but it wont play in VLC?

I have a new iMac and no iDVD
 
Nov 28, 2010
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Does DVD Player in the Applications folder not work?

And what folders and file types are on the burned DVD, if it is a video DVD at all?
Open a Finder window, select the DVD and expand all folders on that DVD in List View (CMD+2) and make a screenshot and attach it to your next post.

And since you probably use an external DVD player, what model is it exactly?
 

boat

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Sep 17, 2002
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I burned a DVD and want to play it, I see it mounted but it wont play in VLC?

I have a new iMac and no iDVD

VLC should be able to play it, if that's not working it's likely something's wrong with the DVD
 

seanm9

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Dec 29, 2007
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I burned a DVD and want to play it, I see it mounted but it wont play in VLC?

I have a new iMac and no iDVD

iDVD IS NOT FOR PLAYING DVD'S... DVD Player is... If that is not in the application folder download it from apple ( might be an extra to install if on the recovery partition ) or use VLC
 

bobright

macrumors 601
Original poster
Jun 29, 2010
4,813
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Does DVD Player in the Applications folder not work?

And what folders and file types are on the burned DVD, if it is a video DVD at all?
Open a Finder window, select the DVD and expand all folders on that DVD in List View (CMD+2) and make a screenshot and attach it to your next post.

And since you probably use an external DVD player, what model is it exactly?

I feel so stupid this worked. It didnt auto play so that's why I made the thread figured I needed an app. VLC didn't work for me.
 

aicul

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Jun 20, 2007
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I feel so stupid this worked.

Don't, apple does not have a very obvious documentation... but in principal you can safely assume a mac will do what you want out of the box (within reason).

Use forums to help.

It didnt auto play so that's why I made the thread figured I needed an app. VLC didn't work for me.

You can set autoplay in the Preferences panel
 
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