Leopard DVD player problems

every time I launch the DVD player program it crashes instantly i've tried to restart cause I thought it might need a restart but it still does even after the restart.

I too am having DVD Player problems, though certainly not that consistently. About 1 in 10 times I start up DVD Player it will immediately dim the screen and display in front the multilingual "you must restart your computer" message. Never happened with Tiger, but that was also a different computer. Doesn't matter whether I'm playing a VIDEO_TS folder or whether I'm playing a disc, doesn't matter whether there is even a disc in the player or not. For VIDEO_TS folder doesn't seem to matter if the folder is local or on a network. Also, I have had the same effect when viewing VIDEO_TS movies through Front Row; thus I think the problem may be pretty deep in the OS's video code, perhaps even in the driver. My system has Santa Rosa motherboard with x3100 built-in graphics.

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DVD Player Problems

My DVD player seems to skip on brand new DVD's. It freezes for a few seconds, then move forward for a second, then freezes again. Also, sometimes I get "Error -96682", but sometimes I don't. It also has the tendency to "skip damaged areas", even on new DVD's.

After innstalling Snow Leopard, DVD player does not work with any of my DVDs and the symptoms you describe about the drive spinning and jumping is excactly what seems to be going on. I first noticed it a little time after innstalling Snow Leopard and I am wondering if these problems started for me after I innstalled the 10.6.1 update. It seems we have the same machine from 2206, so maybe there is a problem with Snow Leopards driver routines for the combo drive in the 2006 MacBooks?
VLC does not work either, but the DVDs play fine on VLC on Windows XP at work. I don't have a TV, so all my DVDs are useless now...
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QS 933, Leopard DVD Player, "no suitable hardware error"--???

As a trial,I put Leopard 10.5.3 on a 60GB HD
to put intomy media Center to see how it would perform.
(My media Center also has a ATI Radeon Pro PCI 9200 card,
and the stock Radeon 7000 AGP card installed).
When I launch DVD Player on the drive, it gives me the
"No Suitable hardware found"error,and I can only close the program.
I know I don't have a DVD Drive installed,but shouldn't
DVD Player work even without one?
I'm trying to see if it can, as VLC has issues ( stuttering playback) with
playing back Video_TS folders on my QS.

Same problem with you. Now that I have a DVD to play neither FrontRow nor iDVD.
My opinion as a retired computer scientist is that apple has shipped defective software. The mouse doesn't work in Frontrow. The arrow keys will allow me to navigate but will not bring up the last item, DVD type, when i hit enter or return.I thought iDVD was a player but I'm dealing with copyrighted material and i do not want to rip off the author, an MD Ph.d pioneer in many fields.
--gwm

Leopard DVD player

I have consistent DVD playing problems using the leopard (10.5.1) DVD player. Lots of momentary pauses, image stuttering, pixelation of parts of the image, and then usually complete freeze up of the image. Complete restart of the computer will stop this temporarily, but then it usually starts all over again. this is on a Macbook Pro 2.4 GHz, OS 10.5.1
Anybody experienced these or similar problems and found and solutions?

Similar trouble here with DVD player. I've tried the same disks on VLC and they play fine.
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.
On my MacBook Pro I have trouble as well, but there the recovery is faster. In any event I have almost switched to VLC and await a bug fix from Apple.

DVD Player problem after 10.4.7 upgrade

I don't know if I posted this to the right forum so I'll repost it here. Sorry for the repeat. Compared to others on this forum my problem seems trivial but it is still somewhat annoying. After installing 10.4.7 upgrade combo I can no longer use Apple's DVD player app. The app launches and recognizes DVDs but cannot make it through the title before it hangs. It responds to eject and quit. It informs me that skipping to the next chapter is not permitted and it does not crash. I have tried: dumping the prefs, fixing permissions, and re-running the updater. On the same machine if I reboot onto the other drive with 10.3.9 the DVD player (V 4.0 vs V 4.6.5) works as advertised. Any ideas?
TIA
Dave

I HATE FM! OK so I found the problem. I posted and got some ideas. I downloadsd Pacifist and re-installed DVD Player. (one version back 4.5 v 4.6.5) I removed all power from the machine for 10-15 minutes. The problem was still there. After giving up in disgust I left the computer alone for a day. This morning I figure I'll check out a DVD I just made using VLC. (afterall it still worked) So I stick the disk into the drive and DVD Player launches and I'm waiting for it to freeze and....@#% #@*& @#* *# % #*&^@! It works just fine! So I stick in the comercial DVD I had been testing with and its all better now. BUT I DON"T KNOW WHY!
Sorry for the rant.
Thanks for all your kind help.
V/R
Dave

DVD Player problem - "supported disk not available" ?

Hi all,
Running DVD Player 4.6.5 on Tiger. Up until a while, everything was fine. Now, it won't play any DVD. It starts when I insert a DVD, but does not start playing automatically (which is what the setting currently is). When I start playing manually, all I get is the message "Supported Disk Not Available" with a stop sign beside it.
Any suggestions/ideas/things to look into?
Thanks,
Simon

Mine does this on occasion.
Haven't figured out what the problem is but restarting fixes it.
Can't get it to repeat the problem enough to troubleshoot it.
I posted a year ago but no responses.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4112854&#4112854

Does 1.67GHz PowerBook G4 Meet Leopard DVD Player Requirements?

I know this might seem like a silly question, as 1.67GHz is faster than 1.6GHz, but I would like to know from someone who has upgraded to Leopard:
Does the (January 2005 non-HR) PowerBook G4 1.67GHz meet the minimum system requirement for "improved de-interlacing" in DVD Player?

OK, I just installed Leopard on my PowerBook G4, and I can not select "Better Deinterlacing". According to the DVD Player System Requirements, I exceed the minimum (by 70MHz). So should I be able to use Better Deinterlacing?

10.4.3 Update OK Except DVD PLayer Problem?

Hi Folks. I did the 10.4.3 update last week successfully on my iBook G4. I ran many app tests and so far, everything has performed fine. Actually, I am noticing a performance boost. The only problem I am having is with DVD Player 4.6.1, the latest version. It plays commercial DVD movies OK, but everytime a selection is made on the menu like changing a screen view, the beachball just spins. It is like the app has a mind of its own and in control by itself. It seems the 10.4.3 update is not compatible with it. Has anyone else had this trouble? I dumped the DVD plist pref file, but that didn't improve anything. Can someone advise a cure or workaround. I've got movies to run. Does Apple know about this glitch? steveB5

Shawn,
I had the same problem just a few days ago. I went to the Genius bar and we were able to repair my directories from the single user login. I had to install X.4.0 and then upgrade again. Lost alot of settings but it all came back.
I had tried to fix it while booting from my DVD but the repairs would not take. Apparently, it had a conflict in my login window and got stuck there. The problem files were left-overs from a Virex problem I had when I upgraded to Panther.
I thought I had cleaned all of those files out but apparently I hadn't.
If it is the same problem as mine, it is fixable without wiping everything out. I am not very good in single user mode but that was the only way the Apple guy could fix it.
Hope that helps.
B

Leopard DVD Player on iBook 1.33GHz?

I was looking at the tech specs for Leopard and it seems the DVD player needs at least a 1.6GHz CPU for special de-interlacing or something to that effect. Is it absolutely necessary to have a 1.6GHz processor to watch DVDs? Or is that only needed if you use the special feature I just mentioned? I watch DVDs on my iBook, and even though the screen is only 12", a DVD is a must when I'm not doing homework or when the TVs are in use at home, and nobody is interested in the movie I got at Redbox. Thanks!

The way I read it, it says it needs 1.6Ghz for "Improved" de-interlaceing.
I ran a web search and found this forum: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=369776
Beta tests on slower CPU's ran DVD's just fine. If you want "Improved" de-interlacing then you will need to upgrade.
My personal thought are DVDplayer is a handy and reliable app. But if they take that away...there are other free third party apps.
Try it and see, if it doesn't work ask this forum or the Leopard forum for alternate DVD player apps.
Glynn

Apple dvd player problem

Hi,
I've just spent an age authoring a dvd in dvdsp 4 and the disk looks excellent in everything apart from the apple dvd player. The problem seems to be that after the dvd player plays a video stream it changes its pixel aspect ratio settings to dv rather than square. So the menus all look great until a video is played, after that they all look really pixelated and bad. I have tried the disk in my under the tv dvd player and it looks fine and also VLC on my powerbook and that also looks fine. I have spent lots of time adjusting the original graphics to various sizes and as I said the disk looks fine on everything apart from apple dvd player (and looks fine on that untill a video stream is played).
Any ideas? this is my first post so i'm sorry if it makes no sense.
Thanks

I myself and a good number of my clients are unable to use Apple DVD Player because of this, the effect is vertical streaks on the screen much like filming the scene during a storm but with green or red rain.
Sorry Gary - never experienced this one before. I'm using 4.6.5 build 4.6.6 - what's yours? I know you have a good set up - but what is it.
More importantly - Flash floods in Corstorphine today too
Now your getting closer to me - i'm up in Buckstone - way up in the hills - although I did start building my survival boat after all the rain - are you near me?
Long shot - assuming you haven't tried this already - bin DVD Player and get a fresh copy, Graphics card issues - lets start the elimination process.
BB
G5 Dual Quad, G4 MDD, Powerbook, iMac etc etc Mac OS X (10.4.5) lots and lots of back up drives - just lots

DVD player -problem Please Help!!

Hi all,
I was trying to play a friend's wedding DVD on my PM G5, and it plays fine until a certain point in the DVD, after which it hangs with spinning beach ball. I then get an error that "disk cannot play either dirty or scratched". I have checked the disk and it is neither dirty nor scratched.
What is puzzling is that I can play the DVD on my home DVD set-top box without any problems. The areas where it would hang while played on the computer, play just fine now! What could be the problem??
Running OS 10.4.3 with 4.6.1 ver on DVD player

Okay, I just tried something I found in a previous discussion which mentioned someone having the problem of audio working only when sound is routed to either the right or left. When sound is set in the center preference option, the dialogue disappears. The music and other sounds are find regardless, so I still a bit baffled.

DVD Player Problem

Just got a brand new Mini Mac, conncected to a flat screen TV via a home cinema amplifier. I tried playing a DVD and get
"There was an initiliazation error
A valid video device could not be found for playback [-70017]"
What's the solution?

Is this what you mean?
Firmware Revision: 3AHB
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media:
Type: DVD-ROM
Blank: No
Erasable: No
Overwritable: No
Appendable: No

No picture in DVD Player

Hi!
I wanted to ask whether any of you knows this issue or has a solution to it:
When I watch a DVD in Leopards DVD Player in Fullscreen and switch to window view it increasingly often happens that there is no video anymore. Audio works fine but you wont see anything at all. Even if you get back to the Menu, you only see the image of your "cursor".
Relauching the app does not solve the issue, only restarting Leopard fixes it.
I'm watching DVDs with region code 2 (Europe) if that's helpful.
Thanks in advance.

hi
i also have the problem with my Macbook Pro (bought in january) that i dont have a picture when playing DVDs, i only see the menu markers on a black screen and hear the sound. But this is not always the case. It may be that one day a DVD plays fine, and the next day it is not working, or the other way around. I have also been updating the system with the "software update" function, but the this didnt help. I use leopard in version 10.5.1.
Can someone help, please?
best regards,
daniel

DVD Player is broken

I am finally admitting to myself that the Leopard DVD player app is broken. in almost every movie I attempt to watch, I get the infernal "Skipping over damaged area" message even when there is nothing wrong with the disc. Has anyone managed to find a solution to this? It really kills the idea of a Mac Mini as a HTPC.

yup...im having the same issue. and this is on a REPLACEMENT mac book pro that apple very grudgingly replaced after the keyboard, display, optical board (twice!), motherboard and battery ALL had to be fixed on the old one. i say old...it was only a year and a half old and had all these issues. and mac were awful about it...sigh....and now the new one seems to have this issue.
if you do a google search you'll see that this appears to be a bug with leopard...the updates seem to be causing more issues than they solve, and none of them address this particular problem with the optical drives.
has anyone out there in apple read these posts????
ideas apple?
c'mon lads....sort it out please.

Encore CS3 submenus not looping - in regular DVD player?

Hi all,
I have a SD PAL project, 1 main movie, 1 main menu and 2 submenus. The total data is around 4,1 GB. My submenus have a video background which lasts for 45 seconds. I have set up the submenus play over again by setting the "end action" back to that same submenu. This works when testing on the PC in Encore. When in the commercial DVD player, my first submenu sometimes loops twice before simply stopping (all playback ceases). The 2nd submenu seems to loop endlessly as expected.
I tried specifyng an amount of "loops" with the end action being back to the main menu.....but only the same result....just stops after 1 or 2 loops.
Additionally, as an experiment, I set an amount of looops for the main menu, with the end action being the main movie chapter one.....but the main menu just kept looping forever!!!!!
Is this a DVD player problem? The DVD's seem to behave correctly on my laptop? I have a LG DVD recorder,
ANy advice appreciated with many thanks!

Well for those who might be having similar issues....I have still got some problems with looping of menus.
In my original project described above, I could not get my 1st (of 2) submenu to loop, as it would just stop at its end. This video background did not have audio - just video. By putting in the the audio that is the other elementary stream of the video - I can now get the submenu to loop. The problem is that now it will not stop looping!
So I have given up and decided to direct the end action to the first chapter of the main movie. So if there is no user action, the scene menu (submenu) simply comes to the end (45 secs) and the main movie starts up. But now................I want that to occur with the main menu, but guess what..........it just loops endlessly!!!!! I have examined all of the settings: loop set to "none", override - "not set" , end action set to "main movie C1". But it just loops forever!!!!
I am quite new to Encore, having authored many projects previously with Reel DVD. I never encountered these issues with the former program, but I guess in many ways it is less sophisticated than Encore. I think Encore is fantastic (except for these issues). But I already starting to look around for another software supplier as I get the impression from the forum that there are a lot of unhappy users of this software.....who seem to quite dissatisfied with the response by Adobe to fixing these issues.....issues that effectively do the COMPLETE OPPOSITE of what Adobe Master Suite promises to do......namely -- speed up post production and optimize effiecient production! For thousands of dollars, one should expect a little better I think.
I did not mention that I am not able to use the pickwhip from dropdown chapter lists as this causes the program to crash every time. I work around this with other ways of making links, but it's just another annoying problem .
I hope someone has some ideas that I could try, and if not, maybe my experience is of help or amusement for anyone who is reading this.
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