DVD player fails iMac i5 27inch

DVD player fails when attempting to play disk on external DVD drive

does it work if you use another dvd player program such as vlc ?

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Fixed the DVD problem. Please see below.
Step 1: Launch Command Prompt with administrator rights. To do this, switch to Start screen, type CMD and then simultaneously press Ctrl + Shift + Enter keys to launch elevated prompt. Click Yes for User Account Control prompt. You can also try other methods mentioned in our how to launch a program with admin privileges in Windows 8 guide.
Step 2: In the elevated prompt, paste or type the following command and press enter key:
reg.exe add “HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Controller0″ /f /v EnumDevice1 /t REG_DWORD /d 0×00000001
(You can simply right-click on the prompt and select paste)
Step 3: Exit the Command Prompt, reboot your PC. You should now see the DVD drive in Windows Explorer as well as Device Manager.
Method 2:

Need to get an external DVD player for Imac, which one?

Hey (again),
I've had a terrible time getting my imac up and running properly since I got it back from its HD replacement yesterday.
It's gotten to the point where I'm going to wipe the system and then do a time machine reinstall.
My problem is that my imacs dvd player doesn't play DVD's anymore, it just spits out the install DVD. Could I use any cheap external DVD (usb) drive and wipe and install my OS from there or does it need to be in the internal one? I found a couple of really cheap ones that I'm wondering would do the trick or does it need to be a specific brand?
Or do I need to have my imac which is out of warranty serviced and have the original dvd player replaced?
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In my experience just about any external DVD drive works. I've found them way cheaper at a big technology store like "Fry's".

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I have inherited an iMac from my parents and am using it for my daughter. We cannot play DVD's on it at all. I tried using an external DVD player (and it reads the disc) but it won't play. I actually think I may be missing the Apple DVD Player software as I cannot find it anywhere. I do not have the original discs (parents can't find them). I have searched the internet for a copy of the software but can only find 3.1 (which says my hardware is wrong) and 2.7 which says my OS is wrong.
Can anyone point me in the right direction ??

USB and FireWire are very different in how they operate (it's not just a matter of the connector's shape), so there is no such adapter.
There's nothing you can do with that external drive, in terms of playing DVD movies from it. If you are handy with taking things apart (and putting them back together), you can probably replace the internal drive, which sounds like it is a CD or CDRW drive (it can't read DVDs), with a DVD-capable drive.
There are take-apart guides online, such as
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/imacg4/imacg4takeapart.html
(please read it carefully and make sure it is something you can do before trying it)
Getting to the optical drive is beyond normal user access, so it is not a simple procedure. I have not done it myself, but an optical drive like this will probably work (and it's a super drive).
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Pioneer/DVR117DBK/
Or you can get an external drive that uses FireWire
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/optical-drives/

Dvd player failing - How to install OS for experts

Hello there,
tricky situation here. I'm the owner of a nice macbook white (old generation 1.83 Core Duo). Sfter 3 years the machine is still working quite well, the video card is not at its best but the machine is still working fine. Now recenlty the dvd player on my macbook has been acting up, it would not read some discs etc, it was a sort of a mirable when I managed to reinstall Tiger.
Now the machine could be fine with Tiger but I would like to use Leopard on it.The problem is I can not install it on the macbook, the player is not very realiable anymore. Now I own an imac 24" that has been bought a few weks ago...I thought I would connect the two machines with a firewire cable and do the assistant migrator etc BUT it's almost impossible to find the specific cable her ein my hometown. I honestly don't want to spend a fortune buying it online....so I was thinking about using a USB cable instead....would that be possible? if yes, what is the procedure I have to follow?
thanx in advance to all the persons who will give me some help with this task

Hi there and welcome back to Apple Discussions!
There are two ways of performing this task, and one is easier than the other. For both, you must have a Firewire 400 cable. You can buy these for a few bucks on ebay (at least 6 footer, 6 pin to 6 pin).
1.Use Target Disk Mode to complete the installation from a 10.5 Retail Install DVD in the iMac.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
Once the Macbook is booted into Target mode, start the iMac up from the Install DVD. The Target Disk should then be available for installation.
2. If you have problems with that method, there is another workaround that is a little more complicated. You can install 10.5 onto partition/external drive of your imac, and use Disk Utility to "restore" it to the Macbook's hard drive (via TDM). You shouldn't have to do it this way, and method one should work fine. But this is a second way just in case.
You will not be able to use a USB cable, as there is yet no way to connect two macs via a USB cable. An external hard drive is the only way to transfer information via USB.
If you have any questions, just let me know!
Good luck!

My dvd-player in iMac stops automatically since the new IOX 10.9 is installed. What to do?

What to do?

Please complete your profile and indicate what version of Mavericks is installed. If you don't know click the Apple symbol in the upper left of your display and then click About this Mac. After you know then do 2-3 Intel iMac SMC and PRAM resets back to back and then retest. If you don't know how to update your profile please click Profile Update for instructions.

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Satellite P200-1B6: Sound Driver update fails and HD-DVD Player doesn't work

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I'm now regretting starting to update the installed drivers. Should I try to rebuild the machine using the recovery discs or is there another solution that someone has found? Or have others found the upgrade works?
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But after this update, I was no longer be able to read my HD-DVDs
Error message was: "Unable to send the video to an external device. Please turn off the display device."
The problem was much of the update Realtek R1.76 (Realtek Sound Driver - 6.0.1.547 - 20/11/07) currently proposed on the site toshiba.
Indeed, the P200-1DE is equipped with Realtek ALC268 Audio Codec.
The latest update of this codec is R1.89. I downloaded from the site Realtek and it has allowed me to solve the problem.
[http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24&Level= 4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false]
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DVD player quits before opening

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DVD player on iMac G5 gets stuck on video track while the audio marches on. Have to Force Quit DVD player, in the meantime CPU usage skyrockets. Strangely no output is being written to console.
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IMac will not play the DVD that I have made on imovie and burned on iMac SuperDrive ?? (DVD plays fine on household DVD player and also play fine in Toshiba laptop ) Why not on the iMac - anyone know???

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There are many reasons this could be the case but whether an optical disc can be read or not is a function of:
The reflective media layer of the disc
Whether the burned disc was a DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW
The brand, model, and production lot of the disc
The specific frequency of the Write lasers that burned the disc
The specific frequency of the Read lasers that are attempting to read the disc
Are the Read lasers in the drive working (it is common for one set of lasers in a drive to fail while others continue to work)
How old are the Write and Read drives (laser frequencies change with age)
Is there dust on the read laser
Is there dust on the read lens
etc.
At one time it was estimated that fewer than 80% of all burned discs were readable in 90% of the drives. That has, I believe improved over time but at the same time it seems the faillure rate of lasers in the drives has increased but that may simply be the result of how many different read and write lasers there are in today's superdrives. Fortunately todays drives are a lot less expensive the replace -- now that Apple no longer installs optical drives in their computers.

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How to install Leopard in my iMac if it has no DL-DVD player?
My eMac is:
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Most PPC Macs cannot boot OSX from USB, they need Firewire... that being said, out of 13 PPC Macs I had one that booted from USB Drives, including Flash Drives, it was my eMac/1.42GHz as a matter of fact, USB drives would show as a boot choice if I held the Option/alt key at bootup, (nowhere else), but It lost that ability when I reset the NVRAM.
The USB boot workaround that works for some is...
Connect the drive to your machine, and find out which partition the OS X system is installed on. I usually find this by going to Disk Utility and looking at the info for the partition on the USB disk with OS X. That is, disk2s3 is usually for a USB disk with no OS 9 drivers installed that is the second disk disk. disk3s9 might be a USB disk with OS 9 drivers that is considered the third disk. There are other ways of finding this out, but in my case, my disk is disk2s3 (the 3 on the end will come into play soon).
Start up the machine in Open Firmware (this is the fun part). Hold Command-Option-F-F right after the machine is turned on.
Here is the moment of truth. If this step does not work, I have had very limited success getting a machine to boot off USB2. In Open Firmware, type devalias, and you should get a list as output. In this list, look for ud, usually below where you see hd (ud is "USB Disk," I presume). If found, it will usually have beside it /pci@f2000000/usb@1/disk1, or something similar. Again, if you see this, I have not had this fail yet.
Now type printenv boot-device, which will usually get you output of boot-device hd:,\\:tbxi. (See where this is going yet?)
Type setenv boot-device ud:3,\\:tbxi where the number after the colon corresponds to that partition number we found in step two. You should get an ok back.
Type printenv boot-device, and you should see the change displayed already. Something like:
boot-device ud:3,\\:tbxi hd:,\\:tbxi"
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060301112336384
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Its my first Apple product other than my iPad 3 so I'm a little bit lost at how to fix it -.-

You coud try this reset
SMC RESET
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and ALL peripherals.
Wait 15 seconds.
Attach the computers power cable.
Wait another 5 seconds and press the power button to turn on the computer.
It is the 5 second timing that initiates the reset.
Sometimes it helps, also make sure the DVD is impeccably clean.

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If iDVD was not preinstalled on your Mac you'll have to obtain it by purchasing a copy of the iLife 09 disk from a 3rd party retailier like Amazon.com: ilife 09: Softwareor eBay.com. Why, because iDVD (and iWeb) was discontinued by Apple over a year ago.
Why iLife 09 instead of 11?
If you have to purchase an iLife disc in order to obtain the iDVD application remember that the iLife 11 disc only provides themes from iDVD 5-7. The Software Update no longer installs the earlier themes when starting from the iLIfe 11 disk nor do any of the iDVD 7 updaters available from the Apple Downloads website contain them.
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This shows the iDVD contents in the iLife 09 disc via Pacifist:
You then can upgrade from iDVD 7.0.3 to iDVD 7.1.2 via the updaters at the Apple Downloads webpage.
If you're creating a slideshow in iPhoto and want to add it to an iDVD project export the slideshow out of iPhoto as a QT movie file via the Export button in the lower toolbar. Select Size = Medium or Large.
Open iDVD, select a theme and drag the exported QT movie file into the open iDVD window being careful to avoid any drop zones.
Follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.

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