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Old October 29th, 2007, 01:16 PM
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Smile Frozen DVD player, can't quit, can't kill

I have had this problem multiple times - I'm using a Mac OS X 10.4.9, and while playing DVDs using DVD player, the application will freeze abruptly. I can't seem to force-quit it using the "fore-quit" option - because upon reopening the force-quit window, it reappears as an active application. I've also tried the "kill" command in terminal using the pid, and that does not seem to work either. I cannot eject the disk, for it claims it's in use. The only thing that helps is a complete restart, but I run fairly time consuming simulations, and would prefer a less final solution. I would appreciate any and all suggestions, or perhaps even a recommendation to download something that might work better.
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Old October 29th, 2007, 05:45 PM
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VLC will also play DVDs. You might want to delete com.apple.dvdplayer.plist in /(yourhome)/library/preferences. Upgrading to 10.4.10 may also help.
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