OK, guilty as charged, I confess, I've been using a mac now for over a year
and a half, and only now have tried playing a DVD with the native DVD player
app. I absolutely love it! Talk about accessible! Holy Cow! the only
issue is that I have it set where once my DVD starts playing, I hit
command+control+F to enter full screen mode. I do this so that I can see
the movie over the entire screen and not just a small little portion. The
issue is however, when I enter full screen mode, Voiceover keeps saying DVD
Player has new window. It keeps doing that every few seconds. OK, yeah, I
could set up a key map, being this is a mac mini, so I can't do track pad
commander, which would let me toggle muting and unmuting of speech, and
sure, I could even set up an activity for DVD Player to mute speech entirely
when the app is opened, but that defeats the whole purpose, as sometimes I
may want access to the player interface so I can navigate the menu bar etc.
So really, though those options definitely would work, don't get me wrong,
they seem a bit extreme. I just wonder why in the first place, it thinks
there is a new window. No, it isn't doing it every time the screen visually
moves from one frame/scene to another. It seems to be doing it more on a
fix timeframe, like, say... oh?... I dono,... maybe like, every say... 5
seconds or so. It's really! really! irritating!
I suppose I could use VLC, but is that really necessary? Has anyone up here
had any luck with the default DVD Player.app native app that comes with OSX?
If so, how'd you get rid of that message? I remember this being an issue
very vaguely in Snowleopard, but I'd think they would have fixed it by now,
in Mountain Lion. If I dont' wanna use this app, nor VLC, are there any
other DVD players I can get that're freeware, that will work?
I'll wait to hear what you all have to suggest, but I'm wonderring if an
e-mail up to Apple Accessibility may be in order here.
Chris.
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