DVD Player does not launch

When I insert DVD's, even commercial ones, into my MacBook Pro, DVD Player does not automatically launch even though I checked "When a disc is inserted, start playing disc" in DVD Player's preferences. DVD Player works, however, when I manually launch it after inserting a disc. Also, sometimes the disc drive will not load the disk completely until I press "Eject". Any thoughts?

In System Preferences/CDs & DVDs have you set "When you insert a video DVD" to 'Open DVD Player' ?

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I cannot recall the DVD player ever being a place to "store" videos - it is simply an app to play videos.
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I have read a couple of complaints like that, but not sure it's widespread.
At this point I think you should get Applejack...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15667/applejack
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Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.
Trash old Log files.
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my dvd player does not have audio

Hi,
No sound at all or just DVD ? Please try this first to enable Speakers in Playback devices as follows:
1. Right click speaker icon (right hand corner)
2. Select Playback devices
3. Right click Speakers
4. Enable it and set as Default
5. Click Apply/Ok
Regards.
BH
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{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
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This could have been added to a recent post, but it is somewhat different.
When I insert one of my own DVDs, DVD player plays the music all right but no image...unless I request to open DVD media in the menu.
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Thanks in advance
Ivan

Done....
Did not change a thing !
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oh sorry i forgot to add that i managed to play some of the contents directly from my storage disk:
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