Third Party DVD Player for MacIntel (not VLC)?
The only software I miss from my Windoze days is PowerDVD. It had many features like step-backward, multiple FF and REW speeds that were keyboard shortcut accessible (vs. Apple DVD player where you set one speed and that's it), screen capture, and it also did a better job of deinterlacing and introduces less "halos" and softening artifacts than Apple's DVD player (and yes, I've tried both with and without the deinterlacing setting enabled). It also zoomed to different resolutions better.
Is there anything analogous to that for Mac OSX, preferably a MacIntel native program? I've searched this forum and versiontracker and google and have come up empty. Any help would be appreciated. I don't want to do the last resort, which is to Bootcamp my MBP in order to have one program.
Thanks!
You can also manually adjust the video on Apple's built video player by going to the Window menu -> Video Zoom and unchecking lock aspect ratio if you want to customize it.
Try changing the scan rate in the Control menu in the menubar to affect color, as well as change video color in the Window menu of Apple's DVD Player. Often the built-in menus of commercial DVDs let you change the video settings that fit your desired color. If there is a specific commercial DVD that you are having trouble with, maybe I can rent it with Netflix and see if I see the problem you are seeing. It might take me a week to get it, but I'd be happy to experiment with it.
Apple's DVD Player also supports slow and faster play through its floating controller menu that is available via the Window menu -> Show Controller. Note, the slower play is available through the pullout drawer that looks like this:
The top controls that are double arrows are fast forward when held down, as opposed to change chapter if just clicked quickly. command-shift-right arrow on the keyboard (command is the Apple logo key) fast forwards even faster if held down long enough and command-shift-left arrow reverses faster and slower if held down long enough and both go in a loop from 2x to 32x in factors of 2, which when let go will give you the speed you want to change.
Sometimes you can also do a color calibration of your display if you are more used to different color gradients in Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Displays -> Color and then select Calibrate.
To zoom video on Mac OS X, you can also use universal access. Command-Option-8, followed by a command-option-equal sign on the horizontal keys above the main body of the keyboard for increase size, or a command-option-minus sign for decrease size. To disable this feature command-option-8 again. Command is the Apple logo key.
Another DVD Player made for the Mac is Interactual's DVD Player.
Screen Capture of DVD is possible with the freeware Capture Me.
http://www.chimoosoft.com/captureme.html
Disclaimer: screen capture of DVD content may be a violation of copyright laws if what you do with the image following is not carefully considered. Check the copyright laws in your country to find out what is legal and is not.
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I've beaten the Apple DVD player issue enough, let's just consider the topic dead.
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As for BluRays, play them back all the time on my Mini. Either with
PowerDVD 10 in a Bootcamp windows7 when I want full DTS-HD or
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