I am having some trouble playing back DVD-RAM disks.

First I tried my desktop, it has two optical drives and runs Windows 2000.

Both of them responded with "incorrect function" when I tried to access the drive letter, however, burning programs were able to recognize a DVD-RAM in the drive, and imaging programs were able to rip a ISO that I could browse with WinRAR. I have no idea how to play the disk or mount and play the ISO.

I tried my laptop, which runs Windows 7 BETA 7000. On Side B, attempting to open the drive letter automatically started Windows Media Player (even though I disabled autorun) and tried to play it..... but it was just a blank screen. The button had the pause icon on it instead of play so I assume it was trying to play, but the scrollbar for the timer was not advancing.

I tried the other side of the disk, and this time it just opened up the disk in explorer to let me browse it's files.

My DVD playing apps would not play it because they could not find the standard "VIDEO_TS" directory.

Any ideas what I can do to play this on either my desktop or laptop?

Trying to Google DVD-RAM player just got me hundreds of forum posts of people asking if their standalone DVD player can play DVD-RAM disks, most of them from years ago.