How to read a DVD made on a PC?

[jcarter]

I have a DVD full of pictures recently made on a PC, that none of our Macs can read. They either spit it right out, or try to say that I need to record something on it, in other words, it seems like a new blank one to the Mac.
Yet CDs with pictures made on PCs are readable on all our Macs?

Any ideas of how to read this DVD?
(I know I can take it to the local photo store and have him transfer the pictures onto a CD.)

Thanks,
Jane

[jguti]

I had to buy an OS upgrade (tiger from panther) after my original combo drive was replaced and the cd would not read on the new drive.  The geniuses at the bar concluded that for some reason a driver appeared to be missing.  I am not convinced to that explanation since I had read it previously on an older G3 beige??

Best of luck.
Joe

 

[jcarter]

I think its the PC that did it wrong, as I could see the pictures fine on another PC.  Yet the other picture CDs made on another family PC are read fine.
Its odd, DVD no, CD yes?
Same problem on either 10.3.9 and 10.4.9.
I didnt think to try it on the DVD player connected to the Television yet.
Anyway, I got a card reader which reads the Sony memory stick thingies, and thats fine.  So we do have the vacation pictures on one Mac anyway.
Jane

[krissel]

Could be the DVD- or + R thing, or maybe the disc wasn't closed or some PC software used packet writing or the media is cruddy or ...

Also read through these:

http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?...&hl=ISO9660

http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?showtopic=15698

[jcarter]

Interesting, sounds like a common problem.  But now that I got the Memory Stick card reader, any of my PC kids can just bring the camera with its card.  Just that its frustrating that they can send me any picture laden CD and its fine, but forget the DVDs.  If they send it from far away, my local photo store will convert it for me, he would just burn a couple of CDs from their DVDs.  
Jane

[gunug]

Jane - Is it perhaps a problem with the software on the disk and not the pictures?  My sis-in-law made up a slide show on a PC of old family pictures and it used a program called Picasa (which is apparently part of the vast Google empire) and it doesn't run on MAC's (or even older Windows 98 machines) but the pictures are still viewable on a MAC or older PC if you dig into the folder they are in and open them with the proper software.  You might get iPhoto (or whatever you use) to import such a folder as I did!

Later: Rereading the original I suspect I'm full of something above but maybe it'll help someone else so I'll leave it stand.  Most PC's can write a format called ISO which should be readable by OS X just fine; it's also possible to write things that can't be read on MAC's (proprietary formats used by the companies that require a different driver be loaded on the other PC computer).  I currently have Nero installed on my office PC and it will write a Photo DVD or CD that is a slide show and it could work on another PC or a DVD-player but not a MAC because of the loader on the disk.

[jcarter]

I used to be able to see the PC disk just sitting on the desktop, so I would open it, and drag the pictures out.  But this DVD never was recognized, just did plain nothing. I had to re-start with the mouse held down to get it to eject.

On my husband's brand new MacTell, I put the disk in, and it immediatly spat it out.  Like when you are eating some raw oysters and you pop a baddie into your mouth, OUT it comes!  Complete with sound effects.
Jane

[RobW]

Going with the approach of trying the easiest fix first, can we assume that the DVD you received will (still) work on a PC and is not damaged, blank etc.??  Yes, I burned a CD of music for a friend once, and nearly gave them a blank one I had sitting next to the one I had just burned. It happens.

[jcarter]

Yes, the DVD is fine, I took it to the photo store that I bought the card reader, and the pictures were fine and dandy on his machine.
Jane