Who has Two Towers Extended R4?

Nermal

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Original poster

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• Dec 26, 2003

• #1

Whenever I try to play the cast commentary (disc 1) in the Panther DVD player, it crashes. Could someone else please try it and see whether it works?

Edit: Same thing happens on disc 2. I haven't tried any of the other commentaries yet, but they all work fine on my real DVD player.

 

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apple_iBoy

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• Jan 4, 2004

• #2

Simpsons Season 3

Interesting -- I came across the same problem when I tried to watch my Simpsons season three box set with Panther's dvd player. In a few of the episodes I was watching, the commentary track would cause an error and the program would shut down. I tried it several times and the error occurred at the same point each time. It plays fine in a regular DVD player, so I don't know what gives.

 

MacBandit

macrumors 604

• Jan 4, 2004

• #3

I have both those movies mentioned but never watch movies on my computer so I don't know if there is a problem but I do know that Video Lan Client is a much more compatible and more capable DVD player then the Apple one.

 

Nermal

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Original poster

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• Jan 5, 2004

• #4

I'll have to try VLC. It was too slow on my G3/800, so I never used it, and therefore didn't consider it for playing this problematic movie. But I've got a G4/1.25 now, so it should be better.

Interestingly, the commentary on FOTR plays fine 😕

 

MacBandit

macrumors 604

• Jan 5, 2004

• #5

Originally posted by Nermal
I'll have to try VLC. It was too slow on my G3/800, so I never used it, and therefore didn't consider it for playing this problematic movie. But I've got a G4/1.25 now, so it should be better.

Interestingly, the commentary on FOTR plays fine 😕

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It will probably work now on your G3 800 as well. VLC get regular and frequent updates. Some of the recent ones have brought about some vast improvements.