On 3/22/12 5:54 PM, Dan wrote:
At 10:31 AM -0400 3/22/2012, Skyler Rudd wrote:
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"DVDs not playing". Exactly what does that mean? That's kindof like
saying your car won't go without offering any details -- we can't tell
if you lost your keys or forgot to open the garage door!
Do the discs not show up on your desktop? Can Finder open them? Can
VLC view them? Or is something locking up or ? What error message is
being displayed? Be specific, please!
Have you tried cleaning your DVD drive?
Check both the system.log and console.log for errors, both hard i/o
from the drive and soft errors from VLC while it's playing.
These DVD's are owned by my son, but he will not let me use the
originals, only the copies. I use MacTheRipper and then DVD2oneX2 to
set them up for Toast.
Why would you rip a dvd then reburn it like that? Just use Disk
Utility to duplicate the disc as-is without re-encoding it three times.
- Dan.
I have to agree here with Dan on two points:
When I owned my DA/533 I would encounter this problem from time to
time with disks that I either burned on the computer or were given to
me. With 10.4.11, I could see the disk via finder, however when I tried
to open them with Quicktime I could get a media unreadable error or
something to that effect. Cleaning the drive helped for awhile, however
it was a faulty drive that ended up being the issue. Like others have
said, you can procure one from geeks.com, newegg.com or really where
ever you would like for dirt cheap.
~Nathan
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