DVD Player & Quicktime erratic playback
My first edition Mac Mini's playback of DVDs and also video files with Quicktime & VLC Player has been incredibly erratic lately.
For example, DVDs being played with DVD player will suddenly rewind back to the start, skip to other chapters, forward when I try to pause, go back to the menu and highlight other items, all at random points of the disc.
I thought this was due to either the disc being scratched (I clean them regularly), or the optical drive being very dirty (I admit it needs a good clean).
However, the same issue occured when playing Quicktime movie files in Quicktime. A video file would just rewind at random points, or "stutter".
This also occured in VLC Player.
The only way to avoid this occuring was to click on the menu bar, or with a wired PC mouse to "right click" and leave it.
Why would this be occuring?
I recently updated the operating system to the latest version (cannot recall what it is, so I just entered iOS6- and will update later).
I also changed the batteries in the keyboard twice.
I do admit the keyboard could also do with a clean, but I don't believe the rewind function key and other keys are stuck.
Please help me with this. I have actually lost a lot of sleep over it. It's like it is possessed!
I have the same issue fairly regularly with DVDs when played back using the Apple DVD Player app. The same DVDs work fine with VLC.
While rebooting helps, it doesn't actually fix anything. The same goes for resetting PRAM and other stuff. The problem persists, albeit intermittently. I've rebooted and have had a DVD exhibit the same exact problems right away. And then I try VLC and it runs fine.
There are three variables that I can point to...
Apple DVD Player application... as noted above, the issue does not occur at all with VLC
Memory... it's possible that the Apple DVD Player app hits on a bad stretch of memory, it causes this kind of problem. Still this points to the application as the issue does not occur in other playback apps.
Video Card... on my macbook pro it's the NVIDIA 320M. Again, the playback is fine in other playback apps, so this still points back to the Apple DVD Player app, but it's possible that it has issues with the video card
That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I hope Apple will fix the problem, and I'm OK with using VLC until it gets fixed, but there is at least one feature of Apple's DVD Player app that I love... it remembers exactly where I was at even if I take the DVD out to play something else. VLC Player does not appear to have that functionality (at least not that I've found thus far).
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