DVD player rewind?

I can't simply fast forward or rewind with the DVD Player. Are those functions not available? If that is the case is there another DVD player that anyone has used before and can recommend? I'm a PC switcher. The DVD player seems like a crappy product as far as I can see. When compared to the products I've used on a PC anyway. Am I wrong?

Try a player called VLC. It's a free download from:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
BTW to fast forward during play in DVD Player, hold down the fast forward button (with the mourse cursor) rather than just clicking on it.

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Dvd player rewind problem

hi,
often times when i'm viewing a dvd on dvd player, if i try to rewind, especially for long amounts of time, the pinwheel shows up and i'm unable to stop the player form rewinding, which is especially annoying if i'm far into a film.
does anyone know of any solutions or can you point me to a thread that discusses this?
thanks very much.

help?

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.

DVD doesn't play from the beginning when inserted a second time into a dvd player

DVD burnt in DVD studio pro, when ejected and inserted again into dvd player, the dvd plays from where it stopped the last tome it was ejected. It doesn't rewind and play from the beginning.
Is the problem in the burning settings in DVD studio pro? any help is really appreciated!

My DVD Player setting was Last option played, I changed it now to "beginning". It now starts from the beginning when I insert it again, thanks.
Another issue is that my First play in the DVD is a Track, then comes a Menu. When I leave to the Menu while the Track didnt finish, and then click the dvdmenu on my remote control, the Track resumes from where I exited to the menu last.
Is that something i can control ? To make that intro track start from the beginning?
Thank you, I appreciate the help!

Can I use Voice Commands (Speech) to control the DVD Player?

Problem: I want to insert a DVD in the the DVD drive and use voice commands to stop, pause, play, move forward, move back, and quit the DVD Player. Is this possible? If so how would I do this?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Jim Minor

You can create a speakable item. Use AppleScript Editor (Applications > Utilities > AppleScript Editor) to write the appropriate AppleScript to perform the desired action, and give it a name which is the command you want to speak. Then, make a subdirectory in the Speakable Items directory named "DVD Player" and copy your script to it. You should be able to speak the name of the script when DVD Player is in the foreground and have the script execute.
An example script (Play.scpt):
tell application "DVD Player"
play dvd
end tell
Other commands that the DVD Player application understands:
fast forward dvd
pause dvd
rewind dvd
stop dvd
step dvd
go to \[ main menu / title menu / subpicture menu / audio menu / angle menu / beginning of disc \]
press \[ up arrow key / down arrow key / left arrow key / right arrow key / enter key \]
open VIDEO_TS
open dvd video folder
play next chapter
play bookmark
play named bookmark
play video clip
play named video clip
exit clip mode
obscure cursor
eject dvd
The DVD Player application also has a bunch of properties related to chapters, titles, subtitles, etc.

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).

DVD player pauses every few seconds?!

Just upgraded my PowerBook to Leopard. I've heard of a few problems with DVD player, but not this one-- approximately every 8 seconds, the DVD player pauses. Not freezes or hangs, but goes into Pause mode, as if I'd clicked the Pause button. Even happens while fast forwarding or rewinding!
Anyone else seen this, or have any suggestions (other than using VLC?!)

If you've had it less tha 90 days, contact Apple support. If you have Applecare, you can talk with them for up to 3 years, but hopefully that's not needed. In the US call 800-275-2273.

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.

DVD player full screen on external display

I'm looking for a way to play my DVD full screen on my external display while I can work in other apps on the main screen. Preferrably with Apple DVD Player (OS X 10.7 Lion in my case). Any ideas? Hidden settings perhaps?
It's stuff like this makes feel let down by Apple. It's natural feature to want this like for instance when playing DVD on a big screen in front of an audience and prepare something on the main display for viewing.

I know I can do this already with VLC. For some discs that don't play well in VLC I'd prefer DVD Player though.

Satellite C855D Toshiba DVD player display suddenly stopped displaying

Please help as its now beyond me. The DVD player has suddenly just stopped. I can hear it and control it but cannot see it. I have checked the diplay button but its all ok.
Help

Im sorry IJK.
I thought it could be possible to download the Toshiba DVD player but it seems that this software is licensed and it cannot be downloaded from Toshiba driver page.
Its part of the Toshiba image. So you can get this tool only reinstalling the Toshiba image using the HDD recovery or the created Toshiba Recovery medium.
However, recovering the system would mean that the whole system would be installed again congaing previous HDD format. So in such case the data backup should be created before starting such procedure.
Another option: you could try to set the system back to early time point before the Toshiba DVD tool has crashed.
Last but not least you could try to install other freeware DVD player software like VLC player. It one of the best player software which is available on the market

Problems with DVD Player 3.0.1 in G4/466

Problems with DVD Player in G4/466
Yes, I've a g4/466 with two disks. In the first there's system 9.2.2 and the DVD player goes perfect. In the second I've system 10.2 and the 9.2, and the DVD Player (3.0.1) on the system 10 begins to jump in the dock, but stop and nothing happens, I can't open it...
There's any way to reinstal it form system disks???
Or any download to check the error?
Thanks

1. Try using Pacifist to extract it from your Mac OS X 10.2 installation disks, and then run the combo updater for your version of Mac OS X and any applicable DVD Player updates.
2. Open the Console application in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and look for lines relating to the DVD Player.
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How Do I Use my MacBook Pro to Watch a DVD From External DVD Player

Hello Everyone!
While waiting for Apple TV to become available in my place of work, I want to use my MacBook Pro monitor for watching a DVD movie played on an external DVD player. The DVD player I have is an LPC-D1000, which is a new model. While Mac has its own DVD player, I'm trying to make use of my LG DVD player. If that's possible, please guide me on how to do it.
Thank you.

You could use Elgato Systems' EyeTV product to view external video sources on your MBP.
There is additional cost involved, but it would achive what you want. You can buy the Hybrid product, and connect your external DVD player via Composite (red, white and yellow connectors) to your MBP via the EyeTV.
http://www.elgato.com/index.php?file=products_eyetvhybridna&PHPSESSID=3c4e16afe5 0303162b285a6f70791f86

I have a new MacBook Air with a USB super drive. I put in the DVD and I get nothing. No icon on the desk top and DVD player is no help. How do I play a DVD or eject the one in now?

I have a new MacBook Air with a USB super drive. I put in a DVD and I get nothing. No Icon on the desk top, no help from DVD player. How do I get it to play and how to eject it now that it's in?

There's a defect. The computer is in warranty so take it in for repair.

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