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Grafxgurl - Jan 17, 2006 - 8:20 am

HI,

why wont my dvd player on my mac play all dvds?.. i know the region is set to 1...but still it plays certian dvds and wont even recognize some others.. even though the region is set to 1 or ALL.

i keep getting a box pop up saying " you have inserted a blank dvd" and then it gives me options like... open finder.. or open toast .. or eject or ignore"

help!! there are so many movies that i cant watch!! lol.

i have a OS 10.4 Tiger .. 800mhz and 50 gb space left out of my 80 gb space.

how do i fix this?

oh and i recently updated my dvd player too.

philippe99 - Jan 17, 2006 - 9:21 am

Grafxgurl, welcome to macosx.com

Could you try to download the VLC player (www.videolan.org) and see if this player can play the DVDs Apple's DVDplayer cant ?
By the way, can plya those DVDs on your home DVD player (if you have one ) ?
Regards
Philippe

Grafxgurl - Jan 17, 2006 - 10:07 am

thanks philippe,
the problem is that when i put the dvd in..... the icon doesnt even show up on the desktop...it wont recognize it.. let alone play..it doesnt do this with all dvds. just a LOT!

i do have vlc and it plays dvds but unless the mac recognizes the dvd i cant " choose" it from any menu coz it wont show up....

thanks for such a fast response

philippe99 - Jan 17, 2006 - 1:23 pm

Well, I've heard that zone 1 drives (US + Canada) have difficulties to mount/play other zones than 1 (a kind of protection).
Is the error arrives systematically for DVDs other than region 1 or also for region 1 ones ?
Phil

Grafxgurl - Jan 17, 2006 - 11:56 pm

yeah.. it picks and chooses region 1 dvds too.. my drive was set to region 1 and plays region ALL dvds.. too. but even that it picks and chooses..... its liek it has a brain of its own..

philippe99 - Jan 18, 2006 - 1:45 am

???
Do you have already play other region DVD so that your receive each time a message "your drive is region 1, but you want to play a region x DVD. Do you want to witch your drive to region x. Yes/No"
Well, because, such a switch is allowed 5 times, after what the drive is definitvly locked on the region code of the latest played DVD

Or have you update your drive firmware to be freed of region locks ?

I must admit that, as far as commercial DVDs are concerned, I never play them directly in the drive (because I come from an old slow 400 Mhz G3), so I prefer to rip it on my hard drive (using for instance MacTheRipper and therefore being able to get rid of protection), then play the VIDEO_TS folder (a folder made my MTR which is a image of the DVD)inside VLC

But as ther DVD does mount itself...

Before 10.4, does this work ?

Could you try to repair permissions on your drive as described here ?
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/repairprocess.html

Could you also download macjanitor (as described in the following article in "Easy way") to launch the maintenance scripts ?
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintscripts.html

If this not help, go one step ahead by downloading Yasu
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/repairprocess.html
to clean caches

Phil

Grafxgurl - Jan 18, 2006 - 2:07 am

its asked me that just once before... and i had to change it to another region . it gave the same problem before 10.4....i haev mac the ripper too.. but the thing is that when i put the dvd in and start Mac the ripper...it says no disc inserted or dvd tray empty....its like...as if.. theres nothing in the tray.. no dvd icon even shows up at all!

what will macjanitor do?...

philippe99 - Jan 18, 2006 - 3:14 pm

Macjanitor will launch the maintenance scripts which are automatically ran by your OS if the Mac is on between 03am - 05am; if not, it is important to run them manually through freewares, like Macjanitor

Well I spoke about macjanitor because these tools can solve bindings problems with library...I want to determine if your problem is software or hardware.

Is your drive a combo or a superdrive ?

Is there a common point (brand, movies company, ..) with all the DVDs that fail ?

Philippe