Revenge of the Sith not Working on OSX

[hessdesigns]

Don't know if this is the correct section, but I was trying to watch Star Wars III, Revenge of the Sith on my MacPro, and it won't even mount. Works in my regular DVD player (hooked up to the TV), and it works on my wife's PC laptop. I did notice that when in the PC, it has a program it launches. Is it possible that they made this PC-only???

[epochblue]

Don't know if this is the correct section, but I was trying to watch Star Wars III, Revenge of the Sith on my MacPro, and it won't even mount. Works in my regular DVD player (hooked up to the TV), and it works on my wife's PC laptop. I did notice that when in the PC, it has a program it launches. Is it possible that they made this PC-only???

I suppose that's possible, but if I recall, I was able to watch Ep3 without any issue on my PowerBook a while back.

[Loge]

The movie plays fine on my Powerbook. The DVD case refers to some enhanced content which may not work on a Mac (there is a start.exe file on the disc).

[hessdesigns]

Hmmm... Any chance I can "force" the dvd to mount, or at least check if OSX "sees" it?

[epochblue]

Hmmm... Any chance I can "force" the dvd to mount, or at least check if OSX "sees" it?

You could check in Disk Utility to see if it sees it in there...

[hessdesigns]

Thanks, I'll try that! What a weird problem...

[hessdesigns]

Ok, tried that... And nothing! It sounds like the drive is trying to read it, but nothing shows up in disk utility, and then it just ejects it. Could this be a problem with the drive, or is it an OSX problem?

[hessdesigns]

Sorry to keep writing, but I'm more interested in what's going on with my computer, rather than just trying to watch a movie. So, I put the disc in a G5, and it works just fine. Could my Mac Pro DVD drive have some issues that need to be resolved???

[Sedulous]

I suggest turning off launch DVD player when DVD is inserted option in System Preferences. Then maybe try VLC.

[epochblue]

I suggest turning off launch DVD player when DVD is inserted option in System Preferences. Then maybe try VLC.

He's saying the drive itself doesn't recognize there's a disk in it - launching/not launching programs wont' solve the problem, I don't think.

hess - it sounds like a bunk drive. I'd be callin' Apple up.

Do any other DVDs not work in the drive or is it just this one?

[hessdesigns]

This is the first one to do it, but I don't normally watch a lot of movies on my computer, so I don't have a very large sampling, if you will.

[bericd]

Don't know if this is the correct section, but I was trying to watch Star Wars III, Revenge of the Sith on my MacPro, and it won't even mount. Works in my regular DVD player (hooked up to the TV), and it works on my wife's PC laptop. I did notice that when in the PC, it has a program it launches. Is it possible that they made this PC-only???

At the risk of sounding stupid, I had a similar thing happen on my MBP. Turned out I had parallels running minimised, and it had picked up the CD drive and OSX would not register it.

[epochblue]

At the risk of sounding stupid, I had a similar thing happen on my MBP. Turned out I had parallels running minimised, and it had picked up the CD drive and OSX would not register it.

No risk of sounding stupid - since I still run a PPC Mac, the thought of Parallels picking it up didn't even occur to me :)

[swiftaw]

At the risk of sounding stupid, I had a similar thing happen on my MBP. Turned out I had parallels running minimised, and it had picked up the CD drive and OSX would not register it.

Yeah, took my ages to figure out that if you have parallels open then OSX has no access to the DVD drive.

[hessdesigns]

No Parallels on my machine. I also tried restarting while the disc was in; sometimes that has worked for me, but to no avail this time. I guess I'll try contacting Apple to see what they say...

[CaptainHaddock]

Sometimes a defective disc will work in some players and not others. Often the better drives make more "correctness" checks and refuse non-standard discs.