Damaged DVDs won't play under OS X (works fine under Windows)
I have started to rent my DVDs online and so far for the past two weeks it has been fine. Today though I got one which was a bit scratched. I popped it in and it was detected but wouldn't play as it couldn't be read very well (well it did play but very slowly).
I gave it a clean but this still didn't work so I tested it on my Windows machine. It worked fine on there so I took out the DVD drive and connected it using my USB to IDE adapter to my Mac.
I then popped the DVD into there, and tried again. Same problem, it still reads really slowly on my Mac, but works fine on my Windows PC.
So I decided to try it in Parallels using the USB connect functionallity. Guess what, it works fine!
So from what I can tell it must be a software bug with OS X, I am running 10.4.9 and have all the latest updates installed.
Under OS X I have tried playing it with DVD Player and VLC, and also tried ripping it with Handbrake, but nothing gives good results.
Under Windows I have tried playing it with VLC and Windows Media Player 11, both of which work fine.
Any ideas?
MacBook 1.83 GHz, 1 GB Ram, 60 GB HDD Mac OS X (10.4.9)
Sorry, I will make things a bit clearer.
The Windows PC I have is a desktop PC. It works fine on there, so I took the optical drive out of there and connected it to my Mac using a USB to IDE adapter. Even when playing it from this drive (which worked fine under Windows) it still didn't work properly under OS X.
When running it through Parallels I tried it with both the Mac's internal optical drive, and via the optical drive from my Windows PC and both worked fine.
I have sent the DVD back now, so I am afraid I can't test any more solutions anybody has. In the end I just played it through Windows.
Thanks,
Luca Spiller
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