Problems with Superdrive and DVD Player

The first problem is that for a long time, I haven't been able to eject disks by pushing the eject button (on the keyboard, in DVD player, etc) - I have to manually drag the DVD/CD on the desktop to the trash can/eject, or click the eject button in Finder. I know the button itself works fine, because I can eject disks in my Ubuntu Linux partition.
The second problem is that sometimes, while playing DVDs through DVD Player, the Player and/or the DVD itself in the drive freezes up. I can't quit the program, I can't eject the disk, I have to reboot to kill the program and eject the disk. This has happened on random DVDs (only, not any CDs), both that I own and that I received from NetFlix. The disks themselves are not bad, as they will run fine in VLC.
Any help with either of these problems? For what it's worth, the problems both started well before I partitioned the hard drive to install Linux.

Nope, didn't have a clue about that. Had to get my hard drive replaced, but everything's working fine now and holding the eject button down for a couple of seconds works.
Thanks!

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Hi
I have a strange issue which I am cannot resolve. I recently purchased season 2 of NYPD Blue on dvd, region 1 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008YGRR/qid=1151702794/sr=1-3/ref=sr13/103-1409159-4182204?s=dvd&v=glance&n=130). The season is spread over several discs. The region of the dvds is the same as that of the superdrive on my 1.25 factory spec 15” pb running 10.4.6.(always has been region1) On playing the dvds in dvd player, the sound is very quiet, and you can hear a slight hissing noise (picture is fine). However, if I set the balance of the speakers in system preferences to the left (as far as I can) the sound becomes louder and the hissing disappears. Hence the sound is normal, other that the fact that it is unbalanced. The same happens if I set the balance to the right. Hence the hiss is only there when the balance is set to the centre or around it i.e. slightly to the left or right. This problem is true of all the dvds in the set.
Fair enough, the nypd discs are defective.
However, I then played them in a standalone dvd player without any fancy sound settings etc and no problems at all. Hence I then thought that the problem was with my pb - the only different thing I have done lately is use handbrake to put some of my other dvds (not these NYPD ones) on my iPod, so I thought that handbrake had done something (although I don’t know see how it could have done anything). However, today I tried some other commercial dvds in my pb (produced by the same company) and they sounded fine as has been the case for over two years. Hence, there is something about the nypd blue dvds which affects the quality of the sound output in my pb when the balance is centred. However, whatever this is it doesn’t seem to bother standalone players, nor is it something that anoth of my other dvds have.
Any ideas on what exactly is going on here, as it has me stumped.
(I don't have any other season of nypd blue, so I can't see if these have the same problem as well.)
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abelvideo wrote:
..... I finally did find involved clicking and dragging folders and files one by one to try it fix it from deep into utlity folders and such that I just gave up and been working with what I got, it really *****
If you have difficulties fixing problems with software that is acting up I would suggest that you do a clean install of your OS and the software. That is, after backing up your files, of course.
abelvideo wrote:
I am looking to go to a editing software that isn't Apple but will operate on a mac and has custum DVD capabilities included. But we'll see, best regards and thank you for your time.
Adobe CS is probably what you are looking for. But I'd go erase & install before throwing the towel.

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hello.
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growisofs
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then i did an upgrade to the firmware of Plextor from 1.02 to 1.03
but still doesnt burn. the debug from the second is this:
System
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KDE Version: 3.5.7
QT Version: 3.3.8
Kernel: 2.6.21-ARCH
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PLEXTOR DVDR PX-750A 1.03 (/dev/sr0, ) [CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL] [DVD-ROM, DVD-R Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Jump, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R Dual Layer, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO, TAO, SAO/R96P, SAO/R96R, Restricted Overwrite, Layer Jump]
ASUS DVD-E616A 1.05 (/dev/sr1, ) [CD-ROM, DVD-ROM] [DVD-ROM, CD-ROM] [None]
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K3bIsoImager
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Pipe throughput: 33655808 bytes read, 33654784 bytes written.
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growisofs: 7.0
growisofs
Executing 'builtin_dd if=/dev/fd/0 of=/dev/sr0 obs=32k seek=0'
:-[ MODE SENSE#2A failed with SK=4h/ASC=08h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error
growisofs command:
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mkisofs
2148367
I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)
0.02% done, estimate finish Mon Jul 9 10:53:07 2007
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mkisofs command:
/usr/bin/genisoimage -gui -graft-points -volid Heroes-DVD01 -volset -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR (C) 1998-2006 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher -preparer -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-ironwiller/k3bNBKhLa.tmp -rational-rock -hide-list /tmp/kde-ironwiller/k3bJnRJha.tmp -joliet -joliet-long -hide-joliet-list /tmp/kde-ironwiller/k3bXxkBVa.tmp -no-cache-inodes -full-iso9660-filenames -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-ironwiller/k3bnNQuIa.tmp
what else should i do for my dvd recorder to work???
ty from the start for your help.
Last edited by ironwiller (2007-07-12 09:04:39)

bt wrote:This is not an arch package.. no makepkg, no pacman -U. Just untar the package and follow instructions. Sorry, I've been playing with this stuff so long ( I started with RedHat 5.2), that I have forgotton how to explain the steps. But, if you untar the package (I do it in its own directory} You should be able to move the binary to a location of you choice. I think you need someone more experienced than me to describe the steps.
ok and ty very much for help so far
ps: did you find any solution with using k3b?
i like it more in a graphical enviroment.

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PicknatariMessage Edited by Picknatari on 07-20-2008 07:3 PM

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