[Ti] DVD Player sensitivity

[Dennis Fazio]

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

This seems to be the case. I used DVDBackup to copy a DVD to my internal disk to play it from there. Apple's DVD Player had a difficult time at a few spots; crashing in one instance, making me lose 
any other control like pause or fast forward in others. However, VLC, the open source player did just fine.

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Dennis Fazio
dfz at mac.com