Another dvd player issue - error 70017

I accidentally posted this in the pre-2009 forum - so I am posting here to correct -sorry for the duplicate post.
Mac Mini early 2009 - 2.0ghz, 3gb ram, 10.6.2.
I am having a regular problem with the dvd player; I usually get the message "There was an initialization error. A valid video device could not be found for playback. Error 70017" when I start the program.
The DVD drive works wonderfully for reading, burning, etc. If I restart the computer the dvd player usually works for watching movies...if I use Toast, disk utility, or any other dvd related program, the player will now work again. I have tried the pacifist method to reinstall and have deleted every dvd player file I can find.... The same happens when I reset pram. Repairing the drive/repairing permissions is not effective either - sometimes it works for a little while, but the issue always returns.
Any advice? Doesn't seem to be hardware because it works for other programs, but I'd be glad to test that as well.
What's going on here? This is frustrating...I can use any number of other programs to watch movies, but it sure is nice to be able to use dvd player to see which title is playing, etc...plus I just want it to work - after all, isn't that the hook?
Thanks for any advice!

Two things, have you run the Hardware Test on your Install DVD? Have you tried resetting the Systems Management Controller?
Dah•veed

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DVD player initialization error 70017

I just noticed that when I inserted a DVD into my mac mini (running OS. 10.4.11) it brought up an error that said: "There was an initialization error. A valid video device could not be found for playback. Error-70017"
I haven't noticed this in the past (I last played a DVD two weeks ago) and in the meantime, the only change I can remember is a software update that I ran a few days ago.
Any suggestions are much appreciated!

Hi Nayika, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot.
The usual reason why updates fail or mess things up, is if Permissions are not fixed before & after every update, with a reboot... you may get a partial update when the installer finds it doesn't have Permissions to change one obscure little part of the OS, leaving you with a mix of OS versions.
Some people get away without Repairing Permissions for years, some for only days.
If Permissions are wrong before applying an update, you could get mixed OS versions, if Directory is the slightest messed up, who knows!
If many Permission are repaired, or any Directory errors are found, you may need to re-apply some the latest/biggest updates again, or even do an A&I if you have enough free disk space.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120

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I have a project which is aspected 16 x 9.
When it plays on one DVD player it forces it to 4 x 3 and displays it as letterbox and nothing is squashed or stretched. No problem.
On another DVD player (playing on a 4 x 3 monitor) it plays the 16 x 9 DVD as a stretched out 4 x 3.
Is this likely a DVD player setting? My client is freaking out and wants answers. Thanks in advance for your help.

If you have all your settings right (16:9 letterbox) then that is all you can do. DVD players can be set to override your settings and force the video to be 4:3, and there isn't a thing (as the DVD programmer) you can do about it.

Third party DVD player issues

Recently, I have come across an issue playing back DVD's with
VLC or XBMC. When I start playback of the DVD, it plays the first
segment ( the studio leader at the beginning) and will then just quit.
Apple's DVD Player works fine (quality is crappy and can't get surround
tracks out of it). Yet, when the DVD is ripped to the hard drive and
played from there, it is works just fine.
Also, this happens when the DVD is played back from an internal
or external drive.
Has anyone else seen this issue or do I have a unique problem?

My unit is a 2010 MacMini with HDMI. (see list)
The quality issues with Apple DVD player vs. other solutions are certain
scenes have a graininess akin to noise on old analog tv's that aren't
present on the other players and severe banding in gradients that
do not appear in other players, at least when they were working.
As far as the audio, selection in the DVD's menu itself just makes no difference.
Tried all the combinations of messing with Audio MIDI setup, third party
plugins like Perian, none of which work for Apple's DVD player. This was
the other reason for going to third party players, the higher quality video
was just a bonus.
Your point has been taken that it may be a software issue with the third party players.
Some update at some point may have broken them, be it OSX or their own.
I've beaten the Apple DVD player issue enough, let's just consider the topic dead.
The audio issues with it are spread over many, many threads across the web, with
no silver bullet solution to all.
As for BluRays, play them back all the time on my Mini. Either with
PowerDVD 10 in a Bootcamp windows7 when I want full DTS-HD or
TRUE HD decoding (decodes these to up to 24 bit,192kHz 7.1 since the
Mini chipset does not have the "protected" path for pass through of
these technologies) or a MakeMKV/XBMC combo in OSX. The OSX
solution doesn't give you the fancy menus and all or HD audio if present,
but if I only want to watch the movies it's fine. If I ever do want the other
nonsense, I just use PowerDVD 10. And please note this is BluRay disk
in player, not "ripped" or transcoded.
I do appreciate your help, but was primarily curious if others had issue
as well.
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HT1151 DVD Player system error -70032

DVD Player system error -70032

Hello, can't find much on that error except this...
kDVDErrorInvalidBookmarkForMedia = -70032 // invalid bookmark for media
And some vague references to it being related to Region code.
Might try VLC Player...
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Another dvd player 70017 error - but the drive works fine???

Mac Mini early 2009 - 2.0ghz, 3gb ram, 10.6.2.
I am having a regular problem with the dvd player; I usually get the message "There was an initialization error. A valid video device could not be found for playback. Error 70017" when I start the program.
The DVD drive works wonderfully for reading, burning, etc. If I restart the computer the dvd player usually works for watching movies...if I use Toast, disk utility, or any other dvd related program, the player will now work again. I have tried the pacifist method to reinstall and have deleted every dvd player file I can find.... The same happens when I reset pram.
Any advice? Doesn't seem to be hardware, but I'd be glad to test that as well.
What's going on here? This is frustrating...I can use any number of other programs to watch movies, but it sure is nice to be able to use dvd player to see which title is playing, etc...plus I just want it to work - after all, isn't that the hook?
Thanks for any advice!

Two things, have you run the Hardware Test on your Install DVD? Have you tried resetting the Systems Management Controller?
Dah•veed

DVD Player initialization error: DVD won't play, (-70017)

I am trying to play a DVD with music and no video on my Mac Mini and I'm getting this message:
There was an initialization error.
A valid video device could not be found for playback (-70017)
The DVD shows up on the desktop just fine, but DVD Player won't start up because of this error. The Mac Mini plays CDs just fine and it has played this DVD many times before just fine.
What's going on? Thank you for your help.

I'm not sure if you've found your answer. I had the same problem for quite a while on my Mac mini and couldn't find any answers on the Internet. But I did finally stumble on the answer in an Apple developer page somewhere which listed all of the possible Apple DVD Player return codes. -70017 is an error which suggests the DVD Player couldn't find a suitable display on which to send the picture output. In my case, I had removed my television from the computer and had been using VNC to remotely connect. Anytime I attempted to put a DVD in the drive, I'd get the error. The error is produced because I do not have a monitor or display attached to the computer. I hope this helps!

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When I press build everything works fine. Then writing begins. The moment the writing reaches the end of the progress bar (the exact moment) the progress bar goes to empty and the bottom bar says canceling and ejects the DVD. Usually (not every time) a pop up menu saying "end of file" appears next. When I press ok for end of file message the pop up disappears and suddenly the DVD progress bar is filled and the DVD says completed (as if nothing just happened). So I'm confused whether it worked or not!
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Build
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I really need help with this weird issue quickly thanks.

Just an Update, I've tried many things to no avail still have a few others to try. Being a Large file it takes a while to try things.
I went ahead and got Toast, but considering that the Image Iso and the DVD Folder both gave me the End of File Error and the Disc "Failed Completed" Error I figured it a no go and it was. It did however give me something that Opened everywhere (Mac,Xbox,Dvd) , but it did not play on the Dvd correctly.
I've done numerous things in the Mac permissions end Like trying as a different user and running as the Root User, but it was also unsuccessful.
I've Re- Exported the file many different ways, but finally had a breakthrough using a version of M2v. It's definitely an error with Finalizing. My disc previously began to mess up and give "END of File" after it finished writing, it never even made it to the "Writing Lead Out" stage. I beleive this is why it plays it certain places fine, but probably not as well in systems (like Dvd players) that require those last few steps like writing Lead Out.
The only issue I have now is that when I put it into the DVD player it say "No title"!?!? AY CARAMBA!!!
Now I'm working on trying to figure this NEW problem! I have all my menus and links in place, but no go. I think it may be related to the previous problem in that something beneath the surface is wrong with my computer. Being a used Mac with a restored Hard Drive there are probably endless possibilities, but I hesitate to think that way because it may also have absolutely nothing to do with it.
So any help is greatly appreciated
whether it be a specific issue you know of dealing with used Macs and issue similar to mine
or just on the "NO Title" error as a separate issue. I'm hoping this "No Title" is something simple and unrelated, I've already burned through about 13 discs and even more pain pills for the headaches!!

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I can play a DVD using front row but unable to play one using Apple DVD player.
I also can no longer burn anything to a disc, when I insert a blank DVD or CD the finder window says the disc in unreadable no matter how many different ones I place into the drive. I can however burn a CD using iTunes. I'm confused.
I noticed this last night after attempting to burn a copy of photos for a friend to a disc. I was able to do this before I installed Leopard.
I'm using a Macbook 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo w/ 2 GB memory and have installed the update firmware.

Thats very weird because front row uses apple dvd player to play dvd's.
Is your macbook still covered by warranty because it sounds like the update has affected your drive and it would be best to get them to check it as soon as possible.
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I upgraded both my iMac and MacBook Pro to 10.7.3 (I used the combo updater) like any dutiful Apple customer, as I've never had an issue with an upgrade (I made the switch in 2006, so I don't have that much history here). I didn't notice this at first, but I have several DVD rips whose icons now appear to be a generic file icon. Furthermore, when I double-click on them, instead of DVD Player opening both the control window and the viewer window, only the control window opens. When I press the play button on the control window, I get the system error beep. I can not play the DVD file even when I then choose File ... Open from DVD Player's menu. I can use VLC to play the DVDs, but I would rather use DVD Player (just my preference).
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DVD Player installation error A valid DVD drive could not be found. [-70012]

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Most of the time, my DVD player works without a glitch. But for some reason, on certain DVDs (eg anything Doctor Who- Other BBC discs are fine, though), it plays the introductory messages/any trailers, but where it would normally go to the menu screen, it just stops. As though there's no DVD at all. If I keep hitting play, it complains about an 'Unexpected Error' and quits.
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Hi folks:
I've had my eMac for about three years and have been happily running 10.2.8 for the past two.
Just tonight I had a new issue when I tried to play a DVD; I put the disk in the tray, heard the disc spinning in the drive once it had closed, and then... nothing. No DVD Player launch, no Disc appearing on the desktop. In fact, so much nothing that the Eject button on my keyboard failed to cause the drive to open, as did the Eject command in the Finder and in the DVD Player (which I opened manually).
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