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RobinS - May 13, 2006 - 12:44 am
Or maybe its the way it interacts with OS X 10.4.5. Some of the recent DVD's I rented play fine then freeze - that wouldn't be so bad except it freezes DVD Player and I can't quit it. Sometimes the whole computer locks up.
Is there another player out there for playing DVD's?
Is there another player out there for playing DVD's?
philippe99 - May 13, 2006 - 7:54 am
Hi and welcome to macosx.com
The one I use is the freeware VLC (www.videolan.org). Can play codecs that QT Pro only allows.
Note that your phenomenon can arrive even with this player (well, not freezing the whole machine, never face this, bu the player, yes). The main problem is that some movies are so compressed, forcing the DVDPlayer to take power (RAM, disk, ..) to decompress the movie with the flight that the flux of data with the optical drive can be suddently stopped... which freezes the player.
Another problem can be the quality of the surface of the rent DVD: if this DVD has been watched a dozen of times in generic low cost home player, manipulated by a hundred of hands, .... there can be scratches on the surface, forcing the player to many retries to read the data block on which the scratch occurs
Moreover, it is well known that QT codecs (which are used by Apple's DVD player) are not a model of speed !
In such circumstances, what I do is to ripp the DVD ontot the hard drive (for instance using MacTheRipper) and play the created VIDEO_TS folder through VLC. Yes, that trick requires 7GB on my hard disk, but by more easily reading data on a drive than on an optical drive, the player can have more power for the decompression phase.
In your case, I would first try to repair permissions on drive and see if this helps.
(must be admin)
Launch Applications/Utilities/DiskUtility
On the left pane, select the drive
On the right, select the First Aid (or SOS) tab
Then click on repair permissions and let run; don not worry about messages like " new permissions...."
Quit DiskUtility
Shutdown and reboo
Regards
Philippe
The one I use is the freeware VLC (www.videolan.org). Can play codecs that QT Pro only allows.
Note that your phenomenon can arrive even with this player (well, not freezing the whole machine, never face this, bu the player, yes). The main problem is that some movies are so compressed, forcing the DVDPlayer to take power (RAM, disk, ..) to decompress the movie with the flight that the flux of data with the optical drive can be suddently stopped... which freezes the player.
Another problem can be the quality of the surface of the rent DVD: if this DVD has been watched a dozen of times in generic low cost home player, manipulated by a hundred of hands, .... there can be scratches on the surface, forcing the player to many retries to read the data block on which the scratch occurs
Moreover, it is well known that QT codecs (which are used by Apple's DVD player) are not a model of speed !
In such circumstances, what I do is to ripp the DVD ontot the hard drive (for instance using MacTheRipper) and play the created VIDEO_TS folder through VLC. Yes, that trick requires 7GB on my hard disk, but by more easily reading data on a drive than on an optical drive, the player can have more power for the decompression phase.
In your case, I would first try to repair permissions on drive and see if this helps.
(must be admin)
Launch Applications/Utilities/DiskUtility
On the left pane, select the drive
On the right, select the First Aid (or SOS) tab
Then click on repair permissions and let run; don not worry about messages like " new permissions...."
Quit DiskUtility
Shutdown and reboo
Regards
Philippe
RobinS - May 14, 2006 - 11:22 am
There must be another playing option for DVDs....
Real Player and WMP using Quicktime (why do they use Quicktime) and of course Quicktime all don't work. In fact Quicktime is just about the most useless video playing app of all.
VLC doesn't work for rented DVD's most of the time. Though it used to work - maybe when I was using Windows 2000?
Real Player and WMP using Quicktime (why do they use Quicktime) and of course Quicktime all don't work. In fact Quicktime is just about the most useless video playing app of all.
VLC doesn't work for rented DVD's most of the time. Though it used to work - maybe when I was using Windows 2000?
philippe99 - May 14, 2006 - 11:41 am
> ... maybe when I was using Windows 2000?
Yes, you're right: VLC works also fine on my Dell W2000
I monthly rent 3 or 4 DVDs.. I must say that two or three DVDs among one hundred need to be ripped on the hard drive to bypass protection VLC cannot handles (mostly Sony's ARCOSS protection scheme).
(Europe region to be honest)
Il also get Divx movies burnt by my PCs colleague from p2p downloads and, yes, in this case, one or two over 10 have problems within VLC
When my Mac is used by my daugthers, I play rented DVDs on the PS2
So, sorry for not being able to give you a good advice: I only use VLC and I never use Apple's DVD player, so I do not know if there is a specific option in this player.
I repool the question.
Regards, Philippe
Yes, you're right: VLC works also fine on my Dell W2000
I monthly rent 3 or 4 DVDs.. I must say that two or three DVDs among one hundred need to be ripped on the hard drive to bypass protection VLC cannot handles (mostly Sony's ARCOSS protection scheme).
(Europe region to be honest)
Il also get Divx movies burnt by my PCs colleague from p2p downloads and, yes, in this case, one or two over 10 have problems within VLC
When my Mac is used by my daugthers, I play rented DVDs on the PS2
So, sorry for not being able to give you a good advice: I only use VLC and I never use Apple's DVD player, so I do not know if there is a specific option in this player.
I repool the question.
Regards, Philippe
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