HELP! DVD Won't play on my G5

[BLDun]

I inserted a dvd of Beauty and the Beast for my grandson and it won't play on my G5. When I put it in my iBook it plays OK. Other dvd's play in my G5. why not this one?????

 

[mad jew]

Does it play using different apps (like VLC)? What exactly happens after you put the disk in?

 

[frankblundt]

Is it clean? I only say that from personal experience with small sticky fingers. Some drives are fussier than others at reading past surface marks and scratches.

 

[BLDun]

Not familiar with VLC so I don't know if it will play or not. When I insert the disc it just sits there for a while and then ejects itself. Usually when I insert a dvd I can hear it begin to whirl and then dvd player opens and we're good to go. When I put this same dvd in my iBook it responds almost immediately and opend dvd player and everything is fine. I want to play it on the larger screen I have hooked up to my G5 but. . . . . One thing I did notice is that I have a newer version of dvd player in my G5 than my iBook. Shouldn't make any difference should it??? I mean all my other dvd's seem to play ok in the G5

 

[BLDun]

frankblunt - Yea, I thought that might a problem too so I checked it and it is perfectly clean. In fact it is almost brand new.

 

[mad jew]

Okay, it's not sounding like a problem at an application level. As frankblundt said, make sure the disk is clean and maybe invest in a CD cleaner for your G5's drive. In the meantime, I guess you could try a quick PRAM reset, if only to rule that out as a problem (it probably won't help but it won't do any harm). 🙂

 

[Flynnstone]

I'm running into a similar problem. I have a 1.8G G5 PowerMac.
It doesn't seem to read DVDs. CDs no problem. But some backup data I have on DVDs has me a bit worried.
Any ideas?

 

[risc]

I'm running into a similar problem. I have a 1.8G G5 PowerMac.
It doesn't seem to read DVDs. CDs no problem. But some backup data I have on DVDs has me a bit worried.
Any ideas?

This happened to me when I "tested" Front Row on my Power Mac G5, DVDs stopped reading and I had to reset the pram to get it to work again.

 

[williamw]

Thats Crappy, same thing happened to to my G4 iMac

 

[beatzfreak]

Same here.
Brand new Powermac G5 won't play DVDs that my husband's ibook plays with no problem.

I often get -36 errors on the G5.