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appleseed - Feb 1, 2006 - 1:37 pm

Hi folks,
I'm currently running OSX Panther on a G3 Pismo.
When attempting to to use DVD Player , I am presented with the message , Initialization Error ; -5000

Can I ask if there is a solution to this or perhaps a thread where I might look for a solution ?

Yours Sincerely

Pol McLernon

bobw - Feb 1, 2006 - 1:48 pm

Hi Pol

Try this

Open this folder;

~/Library/Application Support/

Delete the DVD Player Bookmarks folder.

Creat a new folder with the same name on your Desktop, then drag it to that same location.

Restart and try it.

bobw
http://www.macosx.com

appleseed - Feb 2, 2006 - 12:51 pm

Thanks for the reply Bob ,

When I opened the folder ~/Library/Application Support/ , there were no folders

I did create one on the desktop and dragged it to the location as suggested , restarted and attempted to launch a DVD .

Same message : There was an initialisation error; -5000

How can we proceed ?

Thanks
Pol

bobw - Feb 2, 2006 - 1:10 pm

Pol

Open the Display PreferencePane and set the Colorsto Thouands

and then try.


bobw
http://www.macosx.com

appleseed - Feb 2, 2006 - 1:28 pm

Same result I'm afraid , after changing display to thousands .

what do you reckon ?

Pol

bobw - Feb 2, 2006 - 1:34 pm

Pol

Make sure there is no disc in the drive, then use Disk Utility in your Utility folder to Repair Permissions, then try.

bobw
http://www.macosx.com

appleseed - Feb 2, 2006 - 1:56 pm

Hi Bob , just completed repair permissions , restarted and tried DVD player .

Same result error : -5000 .
am puzzled

Pol

bobw - Feb 2, 2006 - 2:17 pm

Pol

Did a DVD ever play on this machine?

An alternative to play DVD's is VLC;

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14738

bobw
http://www.macosx.com

appleseed - Feb 2, 2006 - 3:53 pm

Hi Bob , just got vlc sorted , playing DVDs ; my machine has played DVDs in the past but hasn't been used for that purpose in over six months .

The error message has no definite origin to my mind .

Many Thanks for helping and suggesting an alternative

All the best

pol