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.

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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?

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.
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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

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.

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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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.

10.5.3 and Front Row DVD player crashes

I have been using Front Row with 10.5.2 to play DVDs - seamless experience
Upgraded to 10.5.3 and have been getting regular crash out of front row to home page.
Is this a known issue?

Rasterblaster wrote:
Start frontrow GUI using the iMAC remote 'menu' button.
Select DVD and play via the Frontrow GUI using remote only to pass through menu
Symptom seen:
In the middle of DVD playback MPEG codec glitch (i.e. blocks formed when b or p frames not propertly decode), on other occasions playback stops, image changes to the desktop (what ever it is called in mac speak) then after about 1/2 secs the playback resumes.
Yesterday spotted after I finished watching the standard leopard DVD player icon was left on the screen with an error code (sorry I didn't note the code).
This has happened with a couple of DVDs from the same box set (disk is clean/not scratched). The issue didn't happen with 10.5.2 (but different box set). So I don't know if Apple played with the DVD player in 10.5.3 or its integration with frontrow?
All the readme for 10.5.3 says about video is
''Addresses an issue with stuttering video and audio playback in certain USB devices"
This is not directly related but you never know?
Did you do the usual HD and permissions repair before and after upgrading?
You might also zap the PRAM

Dvd player does not work after Leopard upgrade

I installed Leopard, had to upgrade because my printer died and no printers now work with Tiger. Since the upgrade, my DVD player does not work. I have problems burning some cd's too. Is this a known issue? What is the fix?

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
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 6 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
The 6 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.
Trash old Log files.
First reboot will be slower, sometimes 2 or 3 restarts will be required for full benefit... my guess is files relying upon other files relying upon other files! :-)
Disconnect the USB cable from any Uninterruptible Power Supply so the system doesn't shut down in the middle of the process.
If that does NOT help, Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, test if things work OK in Safe Mode.
Then move these files to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
Reboot & test.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.
If that does NOT help then I suspect the optical drive or media itself, or possibly just needs a cleaning CD run on it.

DVD Player crashing leopard

Hi everyone.
I've been having huge problems with DVD's on my powerbook
Whenever i put a dvd in the drive, dvd player starts, and just as the disk starts to spool up and start playing the movie, the beach ball of death starts spinning and the computer freezes completely. I've tried several disks and the same happens everytime. It only started happening after I installed the 10.5.2 update, could this have something to do with it?
Any help much appreciated
Cheers, Dave.

What happens when you insert a non-video DVD, such as the Leopard Installation Disk?
What happens if you open System Preferences +CDs & DVDs+ pane, and for +When you insert a video DVD+ select IGNORE? If inserting a video DVD mounts to the desktop without the freeze up, try starting DVD Player manually. If it plays without freezing up, go back to System Preferences +CDs & DVDs+ pane, and for +When you insert a video DVD+, put it back to *Open DVD Player*.
See if the original problem is got resolved.

Burning DVD in Lion Problems. Keep getting REGION ERRORS in SONY DVD PLAYER @ playback. Settings correct. Leopard burns fine with all media. Lion does not with TOAST. DVDSTYLER burns a readable disk.

I have tried several types of media in a brand new (less than 2 months old) 27" iMac running the latest version of Lion. It will not burn a standalone DVD player readable disk. I am in North America and buring in NTSC format. Settings are set properly. Buring at BEST speed - states its burning at 3x. I have tested SONY printable DVD's +R and Verbatim non printable -R disks in Lion with Roxio Toast 8 & 10. No luck. DVDSTYLER burns a readable disk, but not realy happy about the look and functionality.
I am getting REGION LIMITATION errors in the SONY and other stand alone DVD Players.
Disk plays in XBox 360 and laptop PC also.
I am set to region 1.
AS I stated, DVDSTYLER does burn a readable disk, the problem seems to be with TOAST and LION ?
My old 21" iMac running Leopard 10.5.8 has no problems with burning. Any media, Toast 8, disks perform just fine.
Any suggestions ?
My only solution is to do the editing of movies I need to do on the 27" and transfer them to the 21" for burning.
lame
Or use the sub par DVDSTYLER program.
acceptable but disappointing.
ideas ?

SONY DVD player is brand spankin new.
Have not tried Imation disks.
Its just puzzling that Leopard and Toast 8 produces a DVD where as Lion and Toast 8 produces a coaster.
I tried not printiable Verbatims. Same result.
Need printables for the projects that I do.
Appreciate the suggetsions.
Will be methodically dilligent and post any results here.
any help from any others would be appreciated.

How to install Leopard in my iMac if it has no DL-DVD player?

How to install Leopard in my iMac if it has no DL-DVD player?
My eMac is:
eMac G4/1.25 (USB 2.0) with 2GB RAM

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
You'd need to clone the Install Disc to a Flash Drive, or make a DMG of it then Restore it to the Flash drive.

DVD Player in Leopard

Hiya guys I am a recent switcher and just got a mac with Leopard - I wondered if you could help me out.
When playing DVDs the quality is good - however if I put the computer to sleep whilst a movie is paused when I wake up my mac the movie resumes and after a while the video stutters replaying a second over and over again although the audio continues.
I have tried closing DVD player and restarting it as well as ejecting the disc (it happens to all of them by the way) and re-inserting it and trying it again.
The only way I have found of solving it is to restart the mac - this obviously isn't ideal.
Any other suggestions?

Curious I have no problems with the using of DVD player per se. However, if it tries to sleep when a DVD is playing (never did that under Tiger) then upon pressing key/moving mouse all is ok accept that the dock is missing and the only way I can get it back is to restart the machine. Anyone any ideas please?

My DVD player will not work. I am unable to install the snow leopard 10.6.3 because of it.

My DVD player will not work. I am unable to install the snow leopard 10.6.3 because of it.

Do you have a friend with an Intel Mac. If your MacBook and their Mac have firewire ports you can install by Target Disk Mode. You'll need a retail version of SL to do this with any Mac other than a MacBook.
Start up your friend's Mac with your install disk. After you get to the install screen on your friend's Mac connect your MacBook to your friend's Mac in "Target Mode"with a firewire cable http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
Then open "Disk Utility" from the "Utilities Menu" on the Menu Bar from the install disk on your friend's Mac. You should see both your MacBook and your friend's Mac hard drives in there. Erase and partition your MacBook drive and then choose that drive when you go back to the install screen. Or install over your existing OS on your drive if you have applications you want to keep.
The only other way is to buy an external DVD drive on eBay. http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=firewire+external+dvd+drive&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_ sop=15&_dmpt=Apple_Laptops&_odkw=usb+external+dvd+drive&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286. c0.m270.l1313 or at MacSales http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/optical-drives/
And of course be sure your Macbook meets the system requirements. To upgrade to Snow Leopard or install Snow Leopard for the first time, you must have a Mac with:
An Intel processor.
An internal or external DVD drive, or DVD or CD Sharing.
At least 1 GB of RAM (additional RAM is recommended).
A built-in display or a display connected to an Apple-supplied video card supported by your computer.
At least 5 GB of disk space available.

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