Hi Paul, Just a wild guess here, but perhaps his dvd player has some sort of copyright protection which prevents the dvd being played, or perhaps the dvd player doesn't support the dvd encoding used, i.e. it is encoded using the american dvd standard. Tim -----Original Message----- From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Halligan Sent: 05 December 2008 09:58 To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vicsireland] dvd plays on laptop but not on dvd player hi folks wonder have any of ye got a resolve for this. a friend with a video camera is trying to play video footage on his dvd player with no success. 1 any video footage he takes is transferred onto a chip on his video camera. 2 he hooks up the video camera or chip and transfers the footage to his laptop. 3 the footage now saved on the laptop will play on the laptop. but 4 the problem arises when he burns the footage onto a blank dvd, he uses a minus r type. the burned dvd will play on his own laptop or anyone elses but it will not play on his dvd player. any one any ideas many thanks. Paul H