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

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