DVD Control

how can i use mi control of video (for the imac model 2007) in my new mac model 2013?

New iMacs no longer have an IR (Infared Receiver) built -in any longer to remote control an iMac since there is no more built-in DVD drive and no more Front Row App to control the iMac DVD player or anything else within OS X, any longer.
The Front Row app and any remote control operation of the IMac via Apple's old Remote Control device ended with OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
If you want to control your new iMac remotely and you own a mobile iDevice, there are remote apps you can use on both your iMac and iDevice. These apps work over Wifi and/or Bluetooth.
Apple has its own remote app simply called Remote.
Another, which I use and is very comprehensive remote app, is called Rowmote Pro by a developer called Regular & Rhythm.
If you want complete and total remote control access to your Mac, look at Splashtop Remote.
There is also a dedicated WifI and/or Bluetooth remote for Macs and iDevices by a company called Satechi.
Found here.
http://www.amazon.com/Satechi-MediaRemote-Bluetooth-Multi-Media-Control/dp/B0082 4948U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391729056&sr=8-1&keywords=Satechi+remote

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Why did you drop Front Row? I use my mac as a media centre and apple TV will not work (no DVD control)

Front Row was an eligant way to access our media files (our nanny, my mom and other non mac users) found it easy. Apple TV would work but there is no DVD contol so it is out as the mac is our media server.
APPLE BRING BACK FRONT ROW!

http://www.mac-hatter.com/blog/frontrowenablerforlion
Plex as a replacement for Front Row. See http://www.plexapp.com
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1), 2.4GHz IntelCore i5 320 HD 8GB RAM ParallelsDesktop6.0

DVD parental controls started on their own

Some time ago -- maybe after I installed Lion, and continuing now with Mountain Lion -- I started seeing this message whenever I insert a DVD movie into my MacBook Pro:
Allow the media "(name)" to play?
Parental Control is on. To play this media, you will be asked to enter an administrator name and password.
[Always Allow] [Cancel] [Play Once]
This happens with every DVD, either commercial discs rented from Netflix or purchased, or discs of my own material created in iDVD.
I'm the only user of this computer, so I have no need for, and have never configured, Parental Controls. When I go to the Parental Controls control panel, there doesn't seem to be any settings to turn off. The only user listed there is Guest User (see screen shot). I'm logged in as an administrator.
I don't see any relevant settings in DVD Player, or in the CDs & DVDs control panel. Can anyone guess why this functionality started, and more importantly how I can turn it off?

Tsaxman wrote:
I manage a lab and have setup Parental Controls to allow certain apps. However, later students will launch an app. that I have enabled and get the dialog box saying it isn't allowed. I go back and check parental controls for that computer and the app is now unchecked.
1) how can I keep this from happening?
2) is there a preferences file somewhere that I can save and then just upload from time to time?
Thanks,
Craig
I suspect your students are smarter than you think they are
Be sure nobody knows the admin password. Change it to be sure and make sure nobody is looking.
Be sure nobody has a Leopard DVD handy.
Be sure all users are non-admin types.
Check all 3rd party apps installed on the machines.
You can also check the console logs on the machines to see how and when the change occurred.

An error occurred while trying to load the dvd player

I try to use a dvd control or dvd tutorial and I get:
An error occurred while trying to load the dvd player
-2147220869
(I was following
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/director/articles/flash_dvd.html
What should I try?
.V

We were having the same problem, found this note in the SAP KB
https://websmp130.sap-ag.de/sap/support/notes/1321459
Mike

DVDs not showing up in Finder (CDs OK)

I have lots of data archived on DVD. Now DVDs suddenly will not show up on the desktop, data or otherwise. Odd, because I just burned a DVD last night.
Didn't there used to be a CD/DVD control panel in System Prefs? Seems to be gone in OS X 10.34.9

Indeed, because I definitely needed that file.
I ran the combo updater, but no CD/DVD preference pane. I'm not gonna worry about that since things ran fine without it (up till now). Don't want the bother of an Archive and Install, which still might not fix it.
My current suspect for all this is my CD/DVD drive. For several months I've had intermittent problems trying to eject discs and I've done every software fix I can think of and then some. Spent more time working "on" my computer than working with it. So I've ordered the Pioneer version of the Superdrive and we'll see if that fixes it.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Cary
HI Gary,
At least you could retrieve important files off the
one DVD! That's something.
I'm mystified why CD/DVD doesn't show up in your
System Prefs. Try the 10.4.9 combo updater but also
make sure you check to make sure you have any
Firmware updates also. If you do the combo update,
download that from the Apple site, not the Software
Updater:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_upd
ates/macosx1049comboupdateppc.html
If necessary, can you back everything up and do
either an Archive and Install or Erase and Install?
Carolyn

Encore CS5 slideshow transitions not rendering reliably to DVD

I'm trying to create a relatively simple slideshow DVD in Encore CS5 on Mac (10.6). The slideshow is about 35 images long, and most of the transitions are cross-dissolves. However, there are exceptions: a couple of the transitions have no effect (ie, snap from one slide to the next). All of the slides but one are manual advance.
The problem I'm having is that the cross-dissolve time (most are set to 3 seconds, vs. the default 2) seems to render as a variable length: hit the "next chapter" button on the DVD control, and the transition time might be the requested 3 seconds, but is occasionally zero seconds, or 1 second, or 2 seconds. I haven't been able to find the rhyme or sense behind this, although I haven't devoted much time to studying it either. The settings on each slide appear to be set correctly (ie, transition type set to "Cross-dissolve" and transition time set to 0:00:03:00) in the project.
An additional complication comes from the one autofollow slide in the show: it automatically advances as expected, but at the next manual transition, it cross-dissolves, appears to pop back to the image, then does the cross-dissolve again, finally ending up in the correct slide.
Due to project deadlines, I've given up trying to make this work in Encore and moved to a different product, but I'd appreciate any feedback on how to do this all correctly next time.

Many users have problems with Encore slideshows. The major advantage is the manual advance. I don't use them, so have little to offer.
The settings on each slide appear to be set correctly (ie, transition type set to "Cross-dissolve" and transition time set to 0:00:03:00) in the project.
I worry that your "set x:xx IN THE PROJECT" means that you have not checked each slide duration. It is possible to have a project setting, but for individual slides to have been set to something else.

DVD Player help

I am using OS 10.3.9 and have a few question about the dvd player application.
1. How do I get widescreen recordings to playback in widescreen on my monitor. I know my monitor is not widescreen, but the dvd window can be smaller than the screen, so is it therfore possible to have a widescreen shaped display window?
2. I find the dvd controls very limiting. For example, when you want to picture search you have to keep the mouse button held down, and the picture search mode is quite slow - about 2x. Is there any extra functions related to this that I am not seeing?
Thanks in advance.
David

The keyboard controls for picture search are a great help.
If the dvd has been recorded in widescreen on another machine, doesnt matter if i playback in a small window or full screen, the people are the wrong shape. Its not bad enough to stopo you using it, but home tv's in the UK have a "widescreen button" to manually adjust the aspect ratio between 4:3 and 16:9 widescreen. If I had this on Apple's software dvd player it would be perfect.
Dave

How to display DVD timecode to the frame level?

I know you can advance frame by frame with (assumes DVD
object is called "mydvd")
member("mydvd").frameStep(1)
but.......how do see what frame you see the frames in the DVD
controller object?
The DVD object only shows to the nearest sec it seems. Can I
change this or make a text field that will do it?
When doing trace (member("mydvd").currentTime), the command
only shows to the nearest sec. (even though it has the "00" and the
end for frames.....example 115 sec. = 11500
I tried this for a custom text field:
member("mytextfield").text = "" &
member("mydvd").currentTime
but this does not work ....it gives an error I was kind of
expecting to see at least the results of a trace command
It is strange that you can control a DVD frame by frame by
not view the frame you are actually on...there has to be a way
right?
any help would be great!!!
thanks

Anybody have any ideas on this?
I was thinking that if I could get below to work:
member("mytextfield").text = "" &
member("mydvd").currentTime
then I could create a button that would step a frame and
would make the text result, (text result + 1) to show a somewhat
more accurate timecode as I click.
However this could be off as much as 29 frames if the
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believe it does (at least for reporting back timecode)
any ideas on you to read the DVD timecode and place into a
text field....wish I could just add frames feature to the DVD
control component.
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Burned DVD but won't play on Apple or two other DVD players

My kids scratch up original movie DVDs so thought I would make a copy that they could use and keep the original pristine. Copied audio and video folders from movie DVD onto harddrive. New Memorex DVD-RW into Apple and dragged audio and video folders from harddrive into the blank Memorex DVD in Finder. Went to File and Burn Disc and disc burned and when finished DVD Player opened. No movie spontaneously played. Could not play movie or fast forward or rewind or even eject disc from DVD controls. DVD placed in separate DVD Player and comment saying Disc Error. DVD in another DVD player, player kept trying to load DVD and finally said No Disc. How do I correct this problem? Using iDVD 4. Burned at maximum (2X).

hi Darrell:
My kids scratch up original movie DVDs
Should that really say My kids scratch up original commercial movie DVDs?
If that is true then you cannot copy your movie to the DVD the way you stated and as a matter of fact that is because it is protected by law.
Sue

Dvd app not playing

I insert a DVD into the player, DVD is invoked, and all I get is a blank screen--no activity. If I then press "ESC", I get the DVD app status bar at the top and the full-screen DVD controls at the bottom. From there it is as it used to be. This applies to DVD files on hard-drive.
The expected behavior is: insert disk, movie starts (possibly with a "do you want to start at the beginning?" message).
I can use the "ESC" work-around, but don't know what's happened to make this so.

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Trashed every/any file that said DVD or Player. Cold reboot.
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I got Pacifist extracted the Apple DVD file. It works OK reading a movie on a LaCie DVD/CD RW drive.
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HP Pavilion dv7-3069wm touch controls not working

Above the keyboard, next to the power button there was a lit up mute, volume control, and wireless control. At one point the wireless and mute button stayed amber until I did a hard reset. Now they are completely gone. The volume control and DVD controls are lit up white, but don't work. The Quick Launch icon is also gone.
The HP Quick Launch software has been update, but still nothing. I've installed the latest BIOS, but that didn't help either.
Does anyone have any suggestions? The laptop is out of warranty.

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DVDs I burn look like crap. Quality is horrible, but looks great in iMovie.

So I have a few movies I have put together in iMovie. One was imported using an HD camera, one from MiniDV. I have made edited movies of this footage, some adding text and what not, and some just raw footage. When I have exported these movies to YouTube or just Quicktime files to be emailed or posted on the web, they look great, like normal. When I burn them to DVD using iDVD, when played back on the regular TV or on another computer, the footage looks like crap, even though the animated menus look great.
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HT2499 dvd play's audio only video cannot be seen

Purchased a new macbook pro, attempted to play a dvd. DVD palayer launches and a checkerboard screen apears along with the dvd controler. I choose play and all that hapens is the audio portion of the dvd is played any suggestions?

What file format is the DVD in? You might want to download and install the Free player:
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Pioneer DVD-R (107D) will not see a DVD-R, but will see a CD-R

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On the desktop, if I put in any dvd-r media, it doesn't show
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