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Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / May 2008DVD player refusing to play in 10.3.9
Can a drive with specs Model: MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8123 Revision: CA0T Drive Type: CD-RW/DVD-ROM Disc Burning: Apple Supported/Shipped be expected to play a French film on a commercial DVD? The specs are for the CD/DVD that came in a G4 PowerBook with 10.3, now at 10.3.9. When I insert the DVD I can see that there is an audio folder and a video folder on the disk (which means it's being looked at as data). But the DVD Player promptly terminates when I launch it. I would be grateful for any pointers -- software, limits to region switching ... thanks (In the normal way of things we rely on a cheap all-region DVD player with a scart socket to the TV set)  SignatureHylton >Can a drive with specs > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >But the DVD Player promptly terminates when I launch it. Normal behaviour for a drive that is region locked to a different region is a popup saying just that, so there's something wrong happening here. >I would be grateful for any pointers -- software, limits to region >switching ... thanks Try VLC. That won't get past a firmware locked to the wrong region, but reads any DVD region and won't check in software. Although http://www.powerbook-fr.com/dossiers/dvd_region_free_en_article30.html implies that actually it will. Try and see! Cheers - Jaimie Signature"If apathy and manipulation aren't strengths, I don't know what is" - Zadok, 1/0 > >I would be grateful for any pointers -- software, limits to region > >switching ... thanks [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > http://www.powerbook-fr.com/dossiers/dvd_region_free_en_article30.html > implies that actually it will. Try and see! Thanks for the recommendations. What an amazing website. Noted for future exploration (since the problem has in some way cleared itself). SignatureHylton On May 13, 11:53 pm, hylton.boothr...@null.c0m.invalid (Hylton Boothroyd) wrote: > Can a drive with specs > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > be expected to play a French film on a commercial DVD? France uses the same region encoding as the UK, so I doubt it's a region issue. It's more likely to be a complex copy-protection issue if it's a recent DVD< or a encoding issue if it's an early one. Does Console give any clues? > On May 13, 11:53 pm, hylton.boothr...@null.c0m.invalid (Hylton > Boothroyd) wrote: [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > if it's a recent DVD, or a encoding issue if it's an early one. Does > Console give any clues? Console had recorded DVD Player crashing three times on Thread 0, each time reporting Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000024 Which looks alarming to me! However, the more promising news is that having powered down for other reasons, I've just found that DVD Player is no longer crashing at launch with the same DVD present. Thank you for your help SignatureHylton >> On May 13, 11:53 pm, hylton.boothr...@null.c0m.invalid (Hylton >> Boothroyd) wrote: [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Which looks alarming to me! No, that's a pretty common sort of crash - the kernel is stopping the app accessing protected memory. DVD Player shouldn't be doing that. > However, the more promising news is that having powered down for other > reasons, I've just found that DVD Player is no longer crashing at launch > with the same DVD present. Cool. I wonder what the problem was. Cheers, Chris > Can a drive with specs > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > But the DVD Player promptly terminates when I launch it. Sorry to be a bit pedantic, but have you used the Mac to play DVDs before or done anything to necessitate a OSX re-install? I had a problem with my MBP refusing to play DVDs after a drive replacement and it turned out that it was set in System Preferences to do nothing with DVDs. Try that. Also, as other people have suggested, it could be some bonkers region switching, though France is the same region as UK - however, that's assuming you're from the UK or Europe even.... > I would be grateful for any pointers -- software, limits to region > switching ... thanks > > (In the normal way of things we rely on a cheap all-region DVD player > with a scart socket to the TV set) Like Jaimie said, if all else fails I'd be inclined to try VLC (it's Freeware). That usually plays anything I find. > > But the DVD Player promptly terminates when I launch it. > > ... have you used the Mac to play DVDs > before or done anything to necessitate a OSX re-install? It's my wife's PowerBook, which has in its time met most of the other 7 Macs run by my children and grandchildren. At some time it's had its region reset to Region 1 to watch DVDs from the USA, and has 4 resets left. It's only had two major bouts of OS changes, once when we had the local experts in set us up with wifi and ethernet and broadband, and once when I finally got round to getting a machine that _required_ OSX and moved the PBook to 10.3.9 while I was going to 10.4.9 and later. > ... it turned out that it was set in System Preferences to > do nothing with DVDs That bit was OK. > Like Jaimie said, if all else fails I'd be inclined to try VLC (it's > Freeware). That usually plays anything I find. I'm persuaded that I ought to have VLC around Thanks SignatureHylton |
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