15" MBP Wont Play DVD

[Hrothgar]

My 15" MBP is almost 2 years old. It won't play a particular DVD. The DVD plays fine in my Dell. I tried running VMFusion/Windows on the Mac, but it still wont play the DVD. The dvd drive on the Mac is a "Superdrive."

The files on the DVD are: BUP, IFO, and VOB.

Any ideas why this wont play? Can I get them to play?

 

[zsrhusain]

Try playing the files with VLC Media Player. The app with play almost any type of video file. You can download it from

http://www.videolan.org

Hope this helps you

 

[Hrothgar]

Thanks, but it still doesn't work.
Maybe I'm doing it wrong. But the drive spits out the dvd. I don't see how I can get it to play with anything?

 

[old-wiz]

DVDs are expected to have a VIDEO_TS folder first then the files.
Is the DVD a commercial DVD? Maybe the DVD player on the Mac requires the VIDEO_TS folder structure but the dell doesn't?

 

[Hrothgar]

I'll confirm tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure that when I had the video in my Dell, it had video_ts files. the dvd was manufactured by a small business. The owner sent me a replacement, but that didn't work either. He said that he hadn't heard of any other Mac owners having trouble reading it.

It's not a big deal. I'm just curious.

 

[ianwuk]

If it spits the disc out it means that it may be having trouble reading it due to the disc itself (quality). My MBP was very fussy over what discs it would and would not read and would spit out anything it did not like. These discs played on a PC fine.

If possible try copying the DVD to another disc and try that instead.

 

[Hrothgar]

I'll try that. But there are four discs at issue, and none of them will play. It is a mystery.