DVD Player controls

I am a Union stage hand and I do a lot of video projection work.
Recently I was setting up a DVD player to feed a projector onto a 40' screen, but the manufacturer decided that users are all morons therefore it always shows On Screen Programming (Play, Stop, etc) whether I want it or not. (Any 'feature' of hardware and software that refuses to do what I want it do to and ONLY does what it thinks I want it to do, I call that Micro$oft.)
Anyway, since using the DVD hardware players I had access to was out of the question, we are using Macs and DVD Player because I can send a clean video-only (no On Screen Moron graphics) to the projector.
However, DVD Player is incredibly frustrating to cue up in a professional setting. My question is this:
In DVD player 4.0, is there a single-frame-advance in reverse? When in Pause, the right arrow key will frame advance, but the left-arrow key does nothing (why on earth not???).
(And to the Leopard design team, make a single-frame-reverse function, or be labeled Micro$oft by us professionals!!!)

That's what I thought. It's amazing that Apple's DVD Player doesn't have this very basic functionality. I downloaded VCL's DVD Player and while it's more robust, I am having difficulties getting their hot-keys and/or functionality to work for stepping forward or backwards.
Any suggestions of another stable (free or for sale) DVD Players?

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