Mac DVD player plays all DVDs but this one

A commercial DVD from Netflix will play on my tv, my MacBook Pro, and my old power Mac, but not on my intel Mac. All other DVDs play on this Mac without a hitch. Netflix has sent me 2 copies of this and neither works, yet all others work. There are two discs in the series and neither will work. They stop after the introduction and warning from the FBI. They then freeze the DVD player and I have to force quit the DVD Player. When they freeze there is a green bar at the bottom of the screen. I have a separate optical drive attached and even when I use that to play the DVD the result is exactly the same.

In addition, I have repaired permissions, but nothing lets this get past the 26 second part. That's where both of the discs freeze on my iMac. Again the discs play fine on my dvd player attached to the tv, plays fine on my MacBook Pro and plays fine on my G5 iMac.

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