[Ti] DVD Player sensitivity

[Dennis Fazio]

--On Friday, November 7, 2003 01:34 PM -0700 Sam Hotchkiss <ti at zlit.net> wrote:

> On 11/7/03 1:27 PM, "Dennis Fazio" <dfz at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> This is just a quick survey of others' experiences with the DVD drive in
>> PowerBook G4s. I notice that playing rented movies can sometimes be a problem
>> with the movie freezing, DVD Player crashing
>> etc. at the exact same spot repeatedly. The drive is obviously having a
>> problem reading a certain spot on the disk. I've cleaned the disks carefully
>> and inspected them closely, often seeing only a
>> few very minor scratches which shouldn't be a problem (or even none at all).
>
> I don't think it's a problem with the media as much as the decoding.

There's a thought. Perhaps I should try playing it with vlc (the open source DVD player) next time I get a similar problem.

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Dennis Fazio
dfz at mac.com