My dvd slot doesn't accept any dvd's as before?

i have tried to perform all trouble shooting methods on the internet but still there is non that seems to work.

I have the same issue. Ever since I upgraded to Yosemite, my DVD drive suddenly doesn't accept DVD/CD's anymore. I guess it could be a strange coincidence that my DVD drive suddenly broke at the same time that I upgraded the OS but I doubt that.... :-\

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Hi,
after the installation of Vista my dvd drive doesn't recognize any disks !
No upgrade from XP! It was a clean Vista installation.
I found several links about the registry entries upper and lower filter this entries doesn't exist in my registry under the class CDROM.
I tested the drive under XP it works fine and recognizes everything.
Drivers are correctly installed no problems in the device manager is prompted.
So i have no idea how to get it working, seems to be a Vista problem
Could any one help me ? I'm really frustrated about this
Thanks for your help

Maybe this helps:
- Remove the CD/DVD drive from the device manager.
- Then access the registry and remove the Upperfilters and Lowerfilters values completely from the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
- Then reboot the notebook
But what happens exactly? What disks are not recognized?

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If the source video is interlaced, you may have problems using iMovie. It de-interlaces everything on output which can cause picture to look strange. Final Cut Pro X supports interlaced video, but it costs a lot more.
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HT2801 My DVD drive is not reading any DVD

My iMac's DVD drive is not reading any DVD. Whenever I am inserting any DVD, The DVD icon is not appearing and the DVD is ejected out after sometime. I have also tried the troubleshooting steps given in the apple support site by restting the SMC but my iMac still does not read any DVD. What do I do now? Somebody help me.

Could try purchasing a commercially available, retail dry brush CD/DVD lens cleaning system disc. These can sometimes revive a malfunctioning optical disc drive.

Can the iMac dvd drive read or accept mini-dvds/cds? thanks

Can the iMac dvd drive read or accept minid-dvds/cds? Thanks

Don't even attempt it. It won't work, and the disk will just get stuck in the drive's mechanism. If you want to use mini-disks, you'll need an external tray-loading optical drive.
Regards.

Drive doesn't recognize ANY DVDs or CDs?

Can someone explain real simple stupid like how to try to get my DVD/CD player to recognize disks again. I have a PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-103 in my G4 am using Tiger 10.4.3. After installing Tiger my computer has fallen to pieces and this is the last one. Now I am seriously considering cleaning out the entire machine and starting anew as I have a G5 on order. Problem is how can I even reinstall is my DVD drive won't recognize any disks? It spins and spins and spits out the DVD. It will read nothing.
Thanks, Steph

One day the Pioneer DVR-106 drive I had in my G4 MDD stopped working it would accept disks. I tired everything. calls to apple care didnt help since this was an upgrade I added. I read everything on every site.
finally took the drive out of the computer and as I turned it over I heard a rattle. it had never rattled before. A search of posts on www.xlr8yourmac.com lead me to a posting about parts inisde the drive failing and in some cases some miniscule part could cause the drive to fail to read any disc. I was at my wits end and decided what the heck I was planning on Buying a new DVD-R drive anyway, so I opened the puppy up. I put everything out on my white utility table and took care to track every screw. To give me a reference point to how the drive looks and works I took apart a different CDROM drive that no longer worked. I noticed both units were similar internally.
well to make a long story short the culprit was a piece of dust that had got onto the Laser Lens and a piece of metal, some spring that lodged itself near the midle. It was magnetized and stuck to the drive middle area. I took the piece out and crossed my fingers. put it back together and decided to put it in an External 5.25" FW400 case which i have a few siting around for when I pull old HD's. Plugging in the now external Pioneer DVR-106 the unit turned on a-ok and voila the Mac recognized it and was able to read every DVd and CD and perfomred a succesflu burns for many DVD data discs and Audio CD's.
I posted my experience on xlr8yourmac.com and I am pretty sure I lucked out. But hey worse comes to worse, you can always pop that puppy open and see whats there. never know.
good luck anyway and you probably just better of to buy a new OEM Pioneer Superdrive, OWC aka macsales.com has some good bundles also Newegg.com has better deals for people who just want the Bare drive sans disks, cables, etc.

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IPhone 4s doesn't accept any wi-fi and bluetooth password

Hi guys, i have a very big problem regarding iPhone's wi-fi and bluetooth connectivity,
whenever i try to connect any password protected wi-fi iPhone says 'incorrect password' soon after i realize that even bluetooth doesnt accept any device which are password protected and i recieve same error, im not sure but i think it happened after 5.1.1 update, i tried everything but nothing happened, things i tried are below;
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i hope so, is this known by Apple ? because i see lots of people having same issue,
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Siri asks for contact choice but doesn't accept any answer

When I dictate an email I begin by saying "send email to" and I say the name.
If there is more than one contact meeting the criteria SIri will display multiple names and say for example, "you have 2 contacts named xxxxxx, which one should I use?" And then she beeps for a response.
I say one of the names.
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Thelgord, iPauer,
first of all, thank you for you're answers. But nothing you've mentioned worked for me.
I've changed "My Info" to someone else and back again. I have no linked contacts, no duplicates, no middle initials or something else. I just have contacts in the contact app, saved at/in iCloud.
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My cd/dvd drive does not accept any cds/dvds

I know this has been posted before, but I have tried many methods posted on this site and others, and either I have done them wrong or they haven't worked.
I have a three year old macbook pro running 10.6.8. I also have Windows 7 Ultimate running on Bootcamp, and my disc drive does not work on that OS either.
The weird thing is that two weeks ago, I installed a videogame using a DVD-R and it was working perfectly. I ejected it when I was done. I am 100% certain there is no disc stuck in the drive, and I have looked in Disc Utility to be sure of that.
I tried resetting the SMC by restarting the computer holding down SHIFT+CONTROL+OPTION and the startup button, and that didn't work. I tried restarting holding down the trackpad button, which would eject any stuck disc, among some other methods.
Maybe someone can point me in the direction of re-installing drivers for the disc drive or something? I really hope this is a software issue because I am in another country for the next year and going to an apple store would be out of my budget and very difficult. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
My last resort (I would rather get my computer fixed) is using a Macbook Air superdrive, however it is incompatible with my macbook pro (for some reason they only made it compatible with the Air, which I don't have). I heard there is a risky way of editing some "code" to get it to run with a macbook. But I must stress again, I would much rather fix the problem at hand than jerry-rig an external drive as a solution.
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edit: as was mentioned in other posts, when I put a disc in the drive, it feels like something in the upper right hand corner is blocking the entry. The computer is completely unresponsive to the disc. Thanks for reading!

it feels like something in the upper right hand corner is blocking the entry.
Appears your optical drive is "broke" = hardware issue.
For DIY instructions check out the following:
iFixit
YouTube’s “How To” tutorials.
AS are not the only places that fixes Macs.
International AASP’s & Other Services
AASP's Outside of the USA
How to find your nearest Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP)

After SL-DVD drive won't read any dvd-ejects it after spinning some time

Yesterday I bought the SnowLeopard DVD in order to do the update of my Mac OS.
Right after inserting the DVD in the drive (MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8221) it started to have some problems with reading the DVD.
The Drive has stopped recognizing/reading any blank DVD media (and many recorded DVDs, including movie discs). It spins for some time with a noise and then ejects it out. The same media works fine in my Toshiba laptop.
I tried several times, but the drive isn't able to read the DVD and now has the same problem with other CD-Roms and DVD.
I am very suprised (and angry) about it, especially because I hardly use the drive.
As a lot of other people are having the same problem, there seems to be a structural problem with the drive and I think that Apple has to clearify if they are planning to do something and what.

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DVD player doesn't play some DVDs

I've had my macbookpro for several months now. I've been mostly satisfied, but the DVD player seems to be messed up. I have never had a problem with software or CDs, but every once in a while, the DVD player will not play movies. Most of the time, these are Netflix movies which, understandably for shared discs, sometimes have blemishes. However, these same discs have no problems playing on my cheap dvd player hooked up to the tv. I've taken it into the mac store, but they told me nothing is wrong. Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a way to upgrade or change the dvd player? Thanks.

First, welcome to the discussions.
This issue is not a suprise because of the Optical drives and the Fimware that Apple uses in there computers.
Apple has much higher standards for there Optical Drives, and therefore they are very very picky about the Media that they will accept and burn and read.
My quess is that the Movies you are getting are either scratched or smudged and they will either eject from your Mac or will render you an error message.
On some occasions there will be a problem with Optical Drives. If you can read and write with New Good Media, and you are able to use the DVD Player with New Commercial DVD Movies then this tells me it is the Netflix DVD's are of poor quality.
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In iMovie or iphoto I have made a good slide show with music. I want to burn to DVD disc for viewing on any DVD player.

In iMovie or in iPhoto I have made slideshows that I want to burn to a DVD disc. But they only play on computers and I want it to play on DVD players. How do I do that?

Hi
You need to do a Video-DVD
Your Mac can only make Data-DVDs without any extra program.
• If it's some Years old then iDVD was included to do this
• If brand New - iDVD is not supplied any more. Nor does Apple sell it either.
(Can be bougth from Amazon or second handed in boxed version of iLife. The iLife on Apple Store do not contain iDVD or iWeb any more)
alt. is
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HP dv6263cl DVD Rom unable to burn any dvd

dear hp/support team mates:
i have purchased HP 6000 series notebook in Oct -07 and i m satisfied with its performance. intially i didn't have any data to burn on the dvd rom. but with passage of time i have data which requires backup on dvd rom. now the problem i m facing is i m unable to write/burn any data on blank dvd's which are available in open market.
i have changed different brands of dvd rw and used multi softwares to burn the dvd. everytime i get the error its dvd fault which is unable to have write on it. now i m not technical person but if proper guidence is transfered then i m able to diagnose the issue.
the error i get is .. The disc in the drive is not writable disc or it is full. Please insert a writable disc in drive.
now waiting for the response from your end.

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We are not official HP people by the way just users who volunteer to help.
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DVD player doesn't read Tiger DVD

I am running Panther and I am trying to upgrade to Tiger so I bought the Tiger DVD from the Apple Store. My G5 wouldn't recognize the DVD. I tried other DVDs that I own, both commercial and burned from other computers, and they all worked fine on my computer. I took back the Tiger DVD and got another one and the new one did the same thing. I don't want to bring in my computer to be fixed (especially as every other DVD works). Any suggestions? I can stick with Panther I guess.
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