Dvd player capabilities

Does the dvd player in my macbook pro, purchased in North America, have the capability to play a PAL dvd encoded for region 4 (australia)?

Yes, it can play a DVD from any region. But, you can only change the region five times, then it will lock to the last region played, and you will be unable to play discs from any other regions. This is a limitation of the drive firmware - if you're relocating to Oz and willing to part with your region 1 DVDs, fine. Else, watch how many times you change regions!
The workaround is to get an external optical drive to play discs from other regions.

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DVD player video deinterlacing unsupported? What the ....?

So how does one activate it?
I tried having a good search for this but didn't come accross anything.
DVD player help suggested going to:
Window>Video Color
and that one could turn on the deinterlace there. Well I didn't see it?
Can someone tell me what's going on here?
Do I have to buy something?

Hey,
Go to the help menu and select "show supported features" at the bottom of the menu. A little dialog should pop up and show all the DVD player capabilities that your video card can make use of.
One of the items is called "video deinterlacing" and to the right of that it will say either supported or unsupported. If it says unsupported, then the only way I can think of to fix it would be to buy a new video card.
What kind of video card do you currently have? You can check it (in case you don't know the answer off the top of your head) by clicking the apple menu then about this mac, and then the "more info" button at the bottom of the dialog.
That will bring up the system profiler where you can generate a report about your system. When the system profiler comes up click the item on the left that says "graphics/displays" and the let us know what it says.

How to make file playable on DVD-player

Hello all,
I am new to Premiere Pro CS4. I have to make a videofile of approximately 13 minutes, which is playable on a DVD-player (type LG DV9900). The source format is 1440x1080p, and I really wish to keep this quality. There will be no sound or music whatsoever.
Could someone help me to choose the correct videoformat. I would also like to have a good fps (to assure a smooth image). The videofile has to fit onto a regular DVD (4,7GB). At this moment I have a .wmv-videofile in good quality (438mb with fps 50), but unfortunately my DVD-player won't play it.
I already tried it with .avi (Divx codec), but then the file is WAY to large.
Please help as it is quite urgent, trade fair is about to begin on monday :).
Thanks
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On a related note, would this setting be good if you wish to play the video on a DVD player with upscale capabilities?
I have a 20 minute video that was shot at 1920 X 1080. I'd like to encode the video with the highest settings that a DVD can handle. I figured a upscaling DVD player may require that the DVD be encoded in a special way - or maybe not.
Can anyone help me determine what settings I should encode my video onto a DVD?
thanks!

DVD Player hangs when Fast Forward (F9) or Rewind (F7) buttons pushed

When I push and hold down the fast forward and rewind keys in DVD Player, the video does indeed fast forward and reverse. But when I push and immediately release, the picture freezes, and the computer hangs. Cannot do shut down, have to do shut down by holding on/off button and then restarting.
Very frustrating, lost a bunch of notes I was taking while watching the lecture. Any thoughts?
Sigh,
Dave

Also, if you're at the computer or have a wireless keyboard, hold down the apple key (command) and and press an arrow key for FF and RW. Pressing again should step up the speed, depending on the capabilities of the 11D. Mine (104D) can FF up to . . . I think it's 32 times?
If you have the apple remote, it's press and hold.

Making VOB Files Play on DVD Player

I am using MPEG Streamclip to create edited VOB or TS files of personal DVD recordings. I can burn these files onto a data DVD, but I can only use my computer to play them. What I need is some kind of application that I can point to all of my VOB or TS files and it would create a IFO playlist in a VIDEO_TS folder that would run on my DVD player. I hope that makes sense. Basically, I need to go from a folder full of VOB video files to a DVD that will run on a DVD Player.
Thanks in advance!

If you still have Toast 6, please update it least to version 6.0.9. Previous Toast versions could alter audio/video sync of muxed MPEG files. Some versions of Toast may have trouble burning some MPEGs with mp2 audio -- a workaround is to demultiplex the MPEG to m2v and m1a (or aiff) with MPEG Streamclip and burn them with Toast. Toast may lose audio sync or be too picky and reject some MPEGs -- a workaround is to demultiplex the MPEG to m2v and aiff with MPEG Streamclip and burn them with Toast. Converting to "Headed" MPEG adds a special header to the MPEG file that lets you import unsupported frame sizes into Toast 6 or 7 and skip recompression. However, DVDs made from "headed" MPEG files are not guaranteed to work with all players.
Sizzle does not have encoding capabilities. Maybe it is just re-muxing the files?

Anyone knows a DVD player for TV which can play QuickTime movies /FCP movie

I am trying to find a DVD player for my television which can play a QuickTime or Final Cut Pro movie which is on a DVD. Do you know one ?
I have a FCP movie (720 x 576 ) transfed to a DVD ( UDF format ).
I have tryed to play the DVD in many DVD plyers, but they all say " unknown file format "

playing them through AppleTV, can do the trick?
yes and no. The AppleTV is a terribly crippled product. Seems to have been launched with only a few of its capabilities enabled and then it sort of got forgotten.
Before investing in an AppleTV box, be sure to read the product reviews from the MAcintosh magazines and especially the PC magazines. You want to get objective information about this weirdly limited box.
bogiesan

How to burn and finalize a dvd for the dvd player?

I just upgraded to Lion on my MacBook Pro. I burned a dvd from a torrent through the Mac's own disk utility. I didn't see anywhere that it finalized it. It did say it verified it. Is this the same thing? I am trying to play this dvd with is DVD+R on the dvd player but it says it cannot be played. I tried formatting it to a mpeg4. The dvd player is a Panasonic, which is a few years old (model called Double Feature).
Please use lay turns so I can understand. I am not that tecchie.
Here are my three questions:
1: Am I using the right kind of dvd to record it with?
2: What format should I be using? In am in the California region of the US. I don't know if I should be using PAL or NTSC. I Googled it but I am still confused as it says to check your region. Is there a universal format?
3: How do I finalize a dvd burn when I burned it from the Mac not using a third party application? I used the Mac's own burn capabilities.
Your answers and advise would be greatly appreciated.

There is free open source software called Burn that will burn DVDs. Here is a link.
If you wish to pay for software, there are many, including TOAST TITANIUM from Roxio. Apple's retail copy of iLife 11, and Apple's Compressor.
Of these, I would say that iDVD is known for being able to create very professional looking DVDs with intros, menus, lots of interesting templates.
Toast is much simpler and the menus and templates are more plain.
Compressor is a professional tool that does a lot more than make DVDs. Don't expect much in the way of menus or templates.
Burn, I have never tried, since I have iDVD and Toast for those ocasions when I need to burn a DVD. However, since it is free, I think it is worth a try.
Each software package is a little different, but in general, in iMovie, you can use the SHARE menu to SHARE/MOVIE in Large size. Save the movie to your desktop or someplace you can easily find it. Then drag it into the tool of your choice. You can alsouse SHARE/MEDIA BROWSER/LARGE if you have iDVD or Toast.

Detecting dolby 5.1 capability on a host DVD player

Our current project has both a Dolby 5.1 audio stream and a standard stereo equivalent.
I want to write a script that will detect whether a host DVD player can use the 5.1 surround or not, something I've been led to believe is possible.
According to p500 of the manual, SPRM 15 simply stores 'ac-3 capability' - the problem is that in order to make best use of the DVD space both the 5.1 and stereo streams are encoded as ac3.
Is it then possible to specifically detect dolby 5.1 capability on a player?
jON

Hey snowctrl,
thats a good question. is there a way to detect compatibility of a DD set-top player, yes. should you do it, you can. i sit recommended by authors, not really.
SPRM 15 checks the players ability to playback DD, not the embedded streams IN the DD.
my suggestions:
forget SPRM 15 altogether, make your 5.1 your default audio track (A1), that way, if your end user has surround sound capabilities, 5.1 will play on the insertion of the DVD. if he doesnt have surround sound capapbilities, then it will automatically down-mix to stereo.
you might also want to give the end user the option to choose the audio configuration they most like in menu form.

DVD Player (Won't inject DVD)

My DVD Player won't inject a movie I'm trying to watch. It was working okay a while ago, and i haven't dropped it or hurt it. HELP PLEASE!

Hi,
Download Imgburn and check your optical drive capabilities. See the below image.
Check under Read and make sure that your opitcal drive has BD read capabilities.
Download the Cyberlink BD Advisor and use it to check to make sure your system passes for BD play.
Try one of the free PC Blu-Ray players available on the net.
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DVD to play on TV DVD player -vs- DVD to play on computer

Hello Folks,
What is the main difference, in format, between the DVD's that you play on a regular DVD player attached to a TV and
a DVD that plays on computers that have a DVD drive with DVD playing capabilities (like the ones that play on the Mac with the Apple "DVD Player")?
Do you need to author or burn these differently or the same?
Thanks!

This place is pretty good
There are some general rules - first read the tutorials and work through them (there may be some errors, but it gets you started), then play with some projects just for fun for yourself
1.) Use good media for burning DVDs (non-replicated) if you are just making from your burner for others, burn at slow rate
2.) aPac audio and be careful of using video rates that are too high if you are just making from your burner for others
3.) Try not to fill a DVD to the brim if you are just making from your burner for others
4.) Test Test Test before duplicating/replicating. And when you are done testing, make sure to Test. Partly tounge in cheek, but not. Proof in simulator only as a start, then build and watch in DVD Player (Apple) then burn a copy and test on a few machines
5.) Play with video encoding settings to see what works for different types of material
The majority of issues relate to players. There are discussions here about how to make DVD SP even better (dvdafteredit, etc.) which really gets under the hood. For the most part DVD SP does a real good job, particularly if you are not getting fancy (such as scripts) and you can produce a ton of projects that are fine. Some things some players get weird and DVD Players are all not the same. Windows computers can behave strange in general (for any DVD not just DVD SP) depending on DVD software, hardware and which version of WIndows Media Player, some DVD Players/Manufacturers are inconsistent in quality (one DVD player may work fine, others won't same model and make)
And if you try enough machines you will find something weird at some point. I sent DVDs out for QC checks, came back perfectly fine (bunch of menus and buttons) except one DVD player for some reason would not work with one button on a menu. It worked with every other button on the menu, and worked with every other button on every other menu, but for some reason -:(
Then of course check discs were redone and the problem went away, with absolutely nothing being changed on the menu...go figure

Burning a DVD that a DVD player can recognize??

I have burned my video on my ipod to a DVD, but it is not in a format that my DVD player can recognize. How can I convert this to a format that my TV's DVD player can read?
Thanks in advance!

Here is a re-post of one I had posted before. Still no answer from Apple and they deleted my Question I sent to them with NO RESPONSE! Poor customer service IMHO.
Easy As It Looks
The virtual shelves of the iTunes Music Store now feature a video section. Music videos, Pixar shorts and select NBC Universal, Sci Fi Channel, USA Network, ABC and Disney television shows live right alongside songs, podcasts and audiobooks. Browse featured listings or search the archive to find just what you want, then click to buy. Once you do, you get stutter-free, ad-free video delivered directly to your desktop. From there, the sky’s the limit, because you own purchased video forever. Watch as many times as you choose, share between five computers, burn to data CDs or sync to the new iPod. Instant gratification never looked better.
This is directly from the Apple Website and in my opinion is FALSE ADVERTISING! Note the next to the last sentance "burn to data CDs or sync to the new iPod." but yet you cannot burn to a DVD to watch on a regular TV. The pervious line says "From there, the sky’s the limit, because you own purchased video forever"....well....Apple has yet to respond to my question for over two weeks now regarding this. I guess it is time for a class action lawsuit from all those that purchased videos thinking we could watch them someplace other than sitting in our computer chairs.....or maybe this was Apple's grand plan to get us to buy the new Ipod with video capabilities.
To think that I have spent thousands to Apple....hundreds of purchased songs, Ipod Mini, Ipod Shuffle....and get the common Big Business....small customer...why should we respond to them lack of support so prevelant in American business today
Sigh. Bad form Apple!

Dual Layer DVD player or not?

Maybe I should know it, but can anyone tell me if I have a Dual Layer or DVD-9 player on my iMac ?
Model iMac7.1 - 2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, bought in november 2007.
I like to know if I can run the Adobe CS5 DVD before I buy it ...
Thanks!

I did check 'About my Mac' , but can not find anything about DVD Dual or 9...
To confirm, you did click on More Info to get to System Profiler, then in the Hardware section, Disk Burning, what does it say under "Disk Write"? For example, mine says:
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
which indicates a Superdrive that can write to both DVD-R DL & DVD+R DL disks.
In the product information on the web there was a specific warning: DVD player must be able to run Dual Layer DVD (DVD-9). This is the reason for my question ...
You may want to ask Adobe what they mean by that. If it's just to read dual layer disks, then like I said, any DVD drive can read a dual layer disk. But if one of the apps in CS5 needs to write to dual layer disks, then the recording capabilities become important. To me the wording "...player must be able to run..." infers that it's read, not write.
However, I believe you are in luck. Everymac's website reports that your Mac should have a dual layer capable Superdrive. (Limited to writing to DVD+R DL only. But again, should be able to read any dual layer disk.)
[http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?searchkeywords=iMac7,1|http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?searchkeywords=iMac7,1]

Is there a way to create a slideshow viewable with a DVD player?

Hi there, is there amongst the Apple programs (or else) something that would allow me to show my digital photos on TV with a DVD player? Manually commanded with the remote, or with auto time lapse, fading or transitions?

I tested both Photo Magico and iDVD. Both produce a nice slideshow with good image quality when previewed on the computer. PhotoMagico has some really professional grade blending and zooming effects, and allows placement of multiple sound tracks, which is not possible with iDVD where you just drop one file and it plays in buckle.
The problem with both is that when the slide show is encoded, it looses too much quality! Images loose their detail, their colour depth, and they flicker inacceptably. The worst is with PhotoMagico who sends the already compressed file to iDVD to be compressed again and burnt. The loss of quality from the very neat preview to the resulting DVD is enormous. Sent to Toast Titanium, it's a little better but aliasing effects are still very annoying.
I then tried a slideshow made directly in iDVD. The quality is merely acceptable, still not professional. The images are so compressed that they loose their details, and the edges of the frames and every straight line in the images flicker...
Compressing an original 5 Gb slideshow made of JPEG files to 1,5 Gb seems an enormous rate of compression. Is this the way it is with those programs, or have I missed some settings somewhere? Is there no way to preserve the initial image size when passed to DVD? Alternatively, would the pro version DVD Studio Pro have more flexibillity? It's there on my computer, but the interface is turning me away! ...
Thanks again for any hints!
Paul

DVD player 5.4 keeps crashing using a variety of DVDs. I have OS 10.6.8, and have repaired permissions, verified the disc, and installed the 10.6.8 update combo. Several previous questions have adressed this problem. What is the solution?

DVD player 5.4 keeps crashing. I have seen here that a number of other people have had this problem. I recently started one DVD, and when I went back to it, it opened to a black screen twice. It also crashes with other DVDs after I scroll ahead or back. It gives an error message that it is skipping damaged areas, or sometines error 69889. Playing this on a PC, however, there is no problem. I repaired the permissions, verified the disc, and installed the OS 10.6.8 combo update, all to no avail. Techs told me that it is usually the hardware, so I bought a LaCie external combo drive. Still crashes. Looked on Apple downloads and they don't list a 5.4 to replace this version. Mac informer.com offers a free download for DVD 5.5- should I try this? Why doesn't Apple fix this problem?

Your suggestions did not help. I repeated them again after the first try did not succeed. Any other ideas?
Would installing another copy of DVD 5.4 help? How can I get another copy of DVD player 5.4, since Apple does not seem to offer it? I do have the disc for Snow Leopard, but am not extremely tech savy (and maybe it is the same corrupted version).

Installed Adobe Photoshop CS6 on MacBook Pro OS 10.7.5, now my DVD player does not work. Ideas?

I installed Adobe Photoshop CS6 on MacBook Pro, OS 10.7.5. Now my DVD player will not work. Any ideas?

Problem solved. Yes, it was a coincidence. The problem had to do with my DVD preferences, not the Adobe installation. Thanks for your reply.

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