At starting DVD player start also. why?

when i switch on the macbook air immediately DVD player start also. why?

HI
DId you manage to get a resolution to this ?
I have just rebuilt my MAC from scratch and now I too have this issue when Facetime starts the DVD software opens?
iTunes doesnt howeve.r
M

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IMac will not play the DVD that I have made on imovie and burned on iMac SuperDrive ?? (DVD plays fine on household DVD player and also play fine in Toshiba laptop ) Why not on the iMac - anyone know???

iMac will not play the DVD that I have made on imovie and burned on iMac SuperDrive ?? (DVD plays fine on household DVD player and also plays fine on Toshiba laptop ) Why not on the iMac - anyone know???

There are many reasons this could be the case but whether an optical disc can be read or not is a function of:
The reflective media layer of the disc
Whether the burned disc was a DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW
The brand, model, and production lot of the disc
The specific frequency of the Write lasers that burned the disc
The specific frequency of the Read lasers that are attempting to read the disc
Are the Read lasers in the drive working (it is common for one set of lasers in a drive to fail while others continue to work)
How old are the Write and Read drives (laser frequencies change with age)
Is there dust on the read laser
Is there dust on the read lens
etc.
At one time it was estimated that fewer than 80% of all burned discs were readable in 90% of the drives. That has, I believe improved over time but at the same time it seems the faillure rate of lasers in the drives has increased but that may simply be the result of how many different read and write lasers there are in today's superdrives. Fortunately todays drives are a lot less expensive the replace -- now that Apple no longer installs optical drives in their computers.

My Mac Pro is not displaying any images for videos or games, it is showing sound and working but nothing else. DVD player is also coming up with an error.

My Mac Pro is not displaying any images for videos or games, it is showing sound and working but nothing else. DVD player is also coming up with an error. I'm not sure why neither is working, it just suddenly happened. I have done nothing different.

Lao Bo,
yes, you can locate and copy a file from your HD to a USB key using UNIX commands. If you know the exact name of the file which you’re trying to locate, try this:
find / -iname filename -print
This command will search your entire internal disk for the particular filename. If you know that it’s within a particular user account, then you can save search time with this variation:
find /Users/username -iname filename -print
Either variation of this command will print all files found which have the given filename. Presuming that you’re able to identify the correct file, you can copy it to a USB key using the command
cp -p filename_returned_by_find /Volumes/USB_volume
If you’re not sure which volume name your USB key has, this command will show you what the possibilities are:
ls /Volumes
Please let me know if you have any trouble with these commands.

Accuracy of DVD player bit rate meters?

Anyone know why different DVD players would display drastically different bit rates as a DVD is playing?
I have a 90-minute project (81 min. film and about 8 mins. of extras) authored w/ DVD Studio Pro to DVD-R, with the main film itself compressed using Compressor's "90 minute Best Quality" preset (average video bit rate of 6.2 Mbps and a maximum bit rate of 7.7 Mbps). However, when playing the burned DVD-R back on my home Pioneer tabletop DVD player (which displays bit-rate info superimposed on the TV screen), it shows the bit rate at the above levels but with occassional spikes as high as 8.8 Mbps (these spikes only last about a quarter second). So it sound like Compressor's "maximum" 7.7 setting really isn't maximum, unless the Pioneer's meter is wrong.
Now, really weird: when I play the very same disc on an older Toshiba DVD player which also has a bit rate meter, it shows average bit rates in the 8.5-9.8 range, with spikes as high as 10.0. I've tried playing the film back twice on the Toshiba and it has frozen twice, at different parts of the movie (and not during chapter breaks or markers). I've read that the max. bit rate for all DVD content (video, audio, subtitles, etc). is 10.08, and the max. for video is 9.8. The film I'm playing has no subtitle or other extra streams, just the single video and audio files.
I've played the film fine on 5 other DVD players, so maybe it's just the Toshiba. But the bit rate differences are puzzling.
My concern is that this disc play well on multiple players. As is, it fills 4.29 GB on the disc. Should I recompress the film at Compressor's 120 min. Best Quality setting to lower the bit rate?
Thanks.
Mike

Mike Boedicker wrote:
Anyone know why different DVD players would display drastically different
bit rates as a DVD is playing?
Any system measuring real-time performance is probably doing an estimate.
Doing an accurate measurement would take so much processing power that
the performance itself would be affected. So it's quite possible that
the numbers you're seeing are somewhat inaccurate.
That said, you seem to be pushing the limits of your test systems,
so maybe you should back off on your Compressor settings.
Check out hanumang's advice and silal's links here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5157012

It works on my Computer, but not in my DVD Player

I burned a DVD, It works on my Computer, but not in my DVD Player...why?

still am trying to figure out how to burn at a slower speed, I see no optiond on iDVD.
You need to create a disk image out of iDVD, then burn. See below.
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save as Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/18.html
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/image_to_diskstone.html
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. If you hold your mouse cursor over the pop-up it says: "Select a slower speed to work around burn failures," so select 4x or slower for best results. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD Media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

DVD Remote Control buttons don't work when using regular DVD player

I created a DVD using DVD Studio Pro (version 3.0.2) and am unable to navigate through any menus or buttons using the DVD players remote control. I can press the play button on the actual DVD player and play the movie. How can I fix this issue? Any suggestions would be helpful!
I never changed the default setting on the file I made and the DVD works just fine in the simulator as well as any computer DVD player. Also, is there a way to make sure the DVD will play on all DVD players even if it doesn't read burned DVDs?
Thanks for the help!

Not sure if I can add anything here - you're in good hands! I'd like to know how you constructed the menus - did you use photoshop layers for the background and overlay, or did you use a pict file? Are these motion menus or static?
About the compatibility - a burned disc will only ever be about 85% compatible with the number of DVD players out there, and if a DVD player states that it cannot read from DVD-R or DVD+R discs then it most likely won't play your disc. The only way to approach full compatibility is to have the disc replicated, but the cost of this usually means it is not worth while for anything less than 500 to 1000 discs at a time. If you are using DVD±R then all you can do is take steps to make sure the disc is as compatible as it can be, such as keeping the MPEG encode less than 7.5MBPS, using AC3 audio, not applying paper labels and so on.
Compatibility is getting better in general, this summer I have burned in excess of 90 individual projects on DVD-R (and duplicated each one up to seven times each) for playback on consumer players and only one came back (so far). When I looked at it there was a chunk missing from the surface of the disc, which probably explained the error!

Won´t boot up XP or XP in DVD player

Hi.
I have billd my second computer (the last one was a 486 DLC 40). SO u can say that I am a new bee lots of new stuff sens last time
Now to the problem..
I put everyting to gether, turnd on the coumputer everything went ok. all fan is spining ok. I had som problem whit this new S-ATA disc but I manage to fix it (didn´t know how to install it, had only been working whit P-ATA befor).
So I installed Win XP and I were verry verry Happy. When i were in XP i notest that my Grafik Card wasent running ok (i Had a ? on that device).
So i installed the card from a disc, But when it were almost done I got a blue screen and the computer mad a restart.. I didn't realy see what the blue screen sad becours it made a restart after only a few sec.
After that restart I have Problem.
Í'll get past the Bios, and so on, but when it is going to boot from the HD, the screen got all black. Then I try to boot from my DVD player (MSI also) a got this message "Press any key to boot from CD...." after that den i get a black screen.
Grafik Card Failure? Nope I have tryed whit a nother one.. a Gforce2 same result.
HD failure? I dont think so becours I have the same problem on the DVD player
DDR problem? I dont know..
Prossesor failure? I dont know.. (dont think so)
Power problem? I dont know (dont think so)
I have reset the Bios in Bios meny & I have made a reset on the Cmos
I have a D-Bracket everything is Green (= operatingsystem booting)
My not working system
1 MSI K8T Neo-FSR 6702 ver 1.0
1 Crosair Value S. PC3200 DDR-DIMM 512Mb
1 Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120GB 8MB - IDE ATA/100 8MB cache 7200RPM
1 Gainward GeForce FX5700 128MB DDR 5ns AGP (ultra)
1 MSI DVD burner IDE DR4-A
1 Sony Discdrive
I am using a CheifenTech Midi Tower whit a 360W Power supply.
DC output
+5V 35A
+3,3V 28A
+12V 17A
-5V 0,3A
-12V 0,8A
+5vSB 2A
If I look in Bios at the power I got..
Vcore 1,472V
+5v 5,168V
+12V 11,863V
-12V 11,743V
-5V 5,026V
Batt 3,568V
+5VSB 4,993V
& some Temp
CPU temp
40c / 104F
systemp
33c / 91F
Ps sorry for my english I´m from Sweden ds..

Nope.. that didnt help.. now I got the Screen a black after that I have pressed crtl + Home, Even if I had the Win XP CD in.. Same resullt..
So i have probobly have to change the PSU..
That is how ever stange becours the Company that were selling this, were selling this as a complett kit, Tower, CPU, motherbod, HD, Grafcard and so on..
I am going to call them now...

I brought a bacis DVD player I can hear the movie but can't see it can some one please help

Do you have the model number of your DVD player?
Also, how's it connected to your TV?

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DVD Player can't read files burned in Finder

Hello all,
I had an avi file that I converted to play as a DVD using ffmpegx. I burned it to a DVD-R in the Finder, ejected it, popped it back in and the DVD player says "supported disc not available." It plays fine in one of my DVD players (curiously, the older one) but not the other. I burned the exact same files using Toast, and the MBP DVD Player reads it just fine. It also plays on just the older DVD player.
DVD player will also not play the TS_VIDEO file straight off the computer, only after it is burned to a DVD-R using Toast. What is going on here?
I am just trying to find a format that will work in any reasonably new computer or player I put it in, so I can mail them out to people and not have them complain they don't work. But it doesn't even play on the brand new computer that made it. How lame is that?
MBP 2.16 Core 2 Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I went to a very well respect technology chain of stores in England called "Maplin" to inquire about these brush cleaners. In fact I went to two different locations to double check. They told that there are problems with Macs where the little brushes break off and get stuck inside the machine.
So I took my IMac to the Apple store. Decided there was no choice but to replace the drive. I am very disappointed. They drive runs as loud as a hair dryer (I exaggerate a litte), which I cannot believe is correct. My computer is 4 years and my old drive was quiet as a mouse. Looks like I will be dragging my computer back to the store. Very disappointmented in Apple's service here.
(Also, they kept the DVD that I had in the disc when I arrived).

Can I use Voice Commands (Speech) to control the DVD Player?

Problem: I want to insert a DVD in the the DVD drive and use voice commands to stop, pause, play, move forward, move back, and quit the DVD Player. Is this possible? If so how would I do this?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Jim Minor

You can create a speakable item. Use AppleScript Editor (Applications > Utilities > AppleScript Editor) to write the appropriate AppleScript to perform the desired action, and give it a name which is the command you want to speak. Then, make a subdirectory in the Speakable Items directory named "DVD Player" and copy your script to it. You should be able to speak the name of the script when DVD Player is in the foreground and have the script execute.
An example script (Play.scpt):
tell application "DVD Player"
play dvd
end tell
Other commands that the DVD Player application understands:
fast forward dvd
pause dvd
rewind dvd
stop dvd
step dvd
go to \[ main menu / title menu / subpicture menu / audio menu / angle menu / beginning of disc \]
press \[ up arrow key / down arrow key / left arrow key / right arrow key / enter key \]
open VIDEO_TS
open dvd video folder
play next chapter
play bookmark
play named bookmark
play video clip
play named video clip
exit clip mode
obscure cursor
eject dvd
The DVD Player application also has a bunch of properties related to chapters, titles, subtitles, etc.

Gebrannte DVD ruckelt beim abspielen auf dem PC & DVD Player

Hi,
Habe ein kleines Problem mit der Aufnahme einer DVD mit Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0. Die fertig aufgenommene DVD ruckelt sowie auf dem PC also auch auf dem DVD Player. Hab alle möglichen Einstellungen schon ausprobiert. Habe schon Videos mit dem Windows Movie Maker erstellt und mit dem Windows DVD Maker gebrannt und dort habe ich ein einwandfreies Bild auf dem DVD Player. Also kann es nur an den Einstellungen unter Premiere Elements liegen, ODER?
Ich arbeite mit einem Sony VAIO - VGC-JS2E
Prozessor
Prozessor Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Prozessor E7400,
Unterstützung für Enhanced Intel SpeedStep®
Technologie
Hersteller des Prozessors Intel®
Prozessorgeschwindigkeit (GHz) 2,8
Anzahl Kerne 2
L2-Cache (MB) 3
Frontside-Bus (MHz) 1066
Speicher
Größe des Speichers (GB) 3
Geschwindigkeit des Speichers (MHz) 800
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Als Anhang habe ich die abgerufenen Eigenschaft einer meiner Videodateien.
Die Videos nehme ich mit meiner Canon HG20 in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 auf.
Ich habe auch schon probiert das fertige Projekt auf Festplattte als MPEG4 zu speichern, und dort lief das Viedeo ohne Mängel.
Ich hoffe es kann mir jemand helfen.
DANKE

Also, ich fange noch einmal von vorne an:
Zuerst habe meine Fotos in PSE 8 bearbeitet. Da ich meine Nikon erst seit dem Sommer habe, musste ich mir vieles zum Fotografierne neu beibringen. Habe früher analog mit Spiegelreflex-Cameras gearbeitet.
So jetzt weiter. ...Da wir in USA Urlaub gemacht haben, habe ich alle Bilder als JPEG normal, Größe L 4288x2848 in der Camera abgespeichert.
Nach teilweiser Bearbeitung der Fotos habe ich in Photoshop Element Organizer unter "Erstellen-Diashow" ausgewählte Bilder geladen, z.T. nochmals bearbeitet (mit Titel, Kommentare etc.) und dann abschließend unter "Diashow ausgeben" als Filmdatei wmv abgespeichert. Das dauerte z. T. Stunden!!
Anschließend habe den gleichen Vorgang mit "Diashow ausgeben- auf Datenträger brennen" gemacht. Dann wird nach der "Foliengröße"gefragt. Hier habe ich dann VCD-PAL 353 x280 und VCD-PAL 720x 576 ausprobiert. Wie gesagt, Die DVD wurde auch bespielt bzw. gebrannt. Wenn ich die DVD in das CD-Laufwerk vom Computer lege, spielt er auch die abgespeicherte Diashow (als WMV-Datei) unter Window Media Player ab.
Um auf Deine Frage zurück zukommen:
Ich benutzte kein spezielles Brennprogramm, sondern nuzte PSE.
2. Brennen auf CD-ROM habe ich auch probiert- Geht aber gleicher Fehler.
Ist vielleicht das Format falsch? Oder muss ich die Bilder alle vorher als kleineres Format abspeichern.
Vielen Dank für Deine bisherige Hilfe
Monika

New DVD Player Update

I just downloaded the most recent DVD Player update, and now my DVD player doesn't display video. It does play the audio files, and if I click to the DVD menu on the controller, and guess-click to a chapter, it will play the audio, but I only see a black screen. Anyone else having this problem? Know of a fix?
Thanks -

im having problems on a Powerbook g4 1.5ghz 750 ram with DVD player
I went from os 10.3.3 to 10.4.0 (after a total disk erase) and did the update online straight after to 10.4.4
if I put in a dvd it kind of opens up in dvd player 4.6.5 but the whole system freezes - even alt-apple-escape takes ages to respond to force quit out of dvd player
I also have 10.4.4 on a dual 450 g4 which I updated the same day and there isnt a problem
Im amazed that a solution to this is not easier to find on apples site - its obvious that it is happening to several people
Has anyone found a solution???
Powerbook g4 1.5ghz 750 ram (and which Im thinking of ram..... Im really annoyed for apple putting 2 x 256 ram chips in the computer. When I ordered a 512 ram chip with the laptop I assumed it would take me up to 1gig but no when I got the machine and opened up I found out that I would have to take one of the 256 chips out in order to get the 512 one in!!!!! and a 1gig chip costs 300euro!!! )

DVD Player has started playing PAL DVD's on external PAL display very badly

I have my Early 2006 iMac connected to an external HDTV (Mini-DVI->HDMI)
Using display options I can switch the external display easily between NTSC and PAL refresh rates.
It used to be that apple's DVD player could play a PAL dvd just fine on the display but now the frame rate drifts in and out of sync as though it no longer understands that the TV is set to 50hz.
Although I used to use DVD player all the time I haven't done so for quite some months so I don't know when this started happening although I have a feeling that it was with a recent OS X update.
I say this because a few months ago all of a sudden the same thing happened with Elgato's EyeTV, but they issued a patch sometime later and it fixed the v-sync issue for their app.
I'm also wondering if it may be a de-interlacing issue rather than a v-sync issue but I'm not sure, I've tried various DVD's.
I have tried deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.DVDPlayer but this hasn't helped.
If it's relevant, my iMac has an ATI Radeon X1600
Any ideas why DVD player has started having trouble with 50hz displays and how I might fix it?
Failing that, is there a good (hopefully free) dvd player alternative which is better at handing external displays of varying display modes?
p.s this was the most appropriate forum I could find.

I suggest that you create 15-second silent audio slug that you can use to move the audio the same amount you have moved the video.
John Link

Burned DVD issues in DVD player not reading or music issues stop and start

I'm a PC converted to a MAC (less than a month) and love it so far. I have been able to create and burn a DVD. The problem I'm having is one DVD player will not read the DVD (Hitachi). The other DVD player will play it, but the music stops and starts when it transitions (twirl) to another picture (Panasonic DVD/VHS combo). I'm using a DVD R Memorex. Neither one of the player are new. Would love to use this to make the Grandparent's a DVD of the grandchildren from birth to present as Christmas present. What do I need to use or do to be able to watch on any DVD player as well as the computers?
Message was edited by: me01

Hi me01
Welcome to apple discussions. Try using 99 photos / less to avoid issues with audio fades / drops. Also do a search for Memorex on this forum and you'll see it's not the first choice of dvd's for most users. Instead try Verbatim, Maxell, or Taiyo Yuden and burn at 4x from a disc image for best results. Wish you luck and feel free to post back with results or any further questions.
Disclaimer: Apple does not necessarily endorse any suggestions, solutions, or third-party software / products that may be mentioned in this topic. Apple encourages you to first seek a solution at Apple Support. The following links are provided as is, with no guarantee of the effectiveness or reliability of the information. Apple does not guarantee that these links will be maintained or functional at any given time. Use the information above at your own discretion.
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I am trying to burn DVDs from iPhoto slideshows. My pictures number in the hundreds and we know that iPhoto captures 99 and then "starts over". This plays fine from the Mac Book but glitches arise on the DVD when playing it on a DVD player. Any suggsts

I am trying to burn DVDs from iPhoto slideshows. My pictures number in the hundreds and we know that iPhoto captures 99 and then "starts over". This plays fine from the Mac Book but glitches arise on the DVD when playing it on a DVD player. Any suggestions on how to overcome the 99 "Chapter limitation" that IPhoto has? Has anyone heard or tried an app called Vilisoft? I read good things but I am not sure if it will do what I want.
Jim

Then use multipel 99 picture slideshows.
You can have up to 8 or 9 slideshows per menu. If you add a sub menu reduce that by 1 and add 8 more to the sub menu. The top menu can have links to up to 8 or so submenus (depends on the theme) and each submenu can have up to 8 or so slideshows.
However, converting a very large slideshow to a QT movie as Terence suggested does not envoke the 99 slide limit in iDVD. It just becomes a single video/movie file. So you should not have a problem with exporting at the large size, 720 x 540,
and dragging the resulting file into the iDVD menu being sure to avoid any drop zones.
OT

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