Hi I have just burnt a CD. It plays on my laptop, DVD player and in two car CD players. It will not play in my friends DVD player nor his CD player. It will not also play in another friends CD player nor his DVD player. Why

Hey there.

Welcome to PC Help!!

There is a couple explainations to that actually. Its possible that your friends dont have players that are capable of playing burned CDs and such. ALso if you have not tried this before, try finalizing the CD, which is an option on most CD burning programs. The option comes up right before you click the button to start burning. But by no means am I the end all to this, you can try this and if that dosnt work perhaps someone else will have an idea. Hope this helps!! :-)

PJ

Hi mahlea,

Welcome to the forums mate!

I'm just posting to back up PJ's assesment of this. A lot of DVD players aren't classed as being in the correct region for playing burned disks. As you can play it on yours, there is no problem with the burn. As your friends DVD player will play other DVD's (I assume), there is no problem with the player. It's just a regional conflict mate.

Oh cool, I'll have to keep that one in mind for next time something like this comes up. :-)

Anyway, I'm assuming that since you thanks his post that means this is fixed? or not? Let us know so we can mark it accordingly. Thanks!

PJ

Another point to make...

Is if it is a video cd, some DVD players do not like these...infact the more higher quality dvd players don't support avi file format on CDs...where the cheap and nasty ones play div-x and x-vid avi files, and a few others.