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I'm hoping to learn tha facts about the trouble surrounding my expierence with playing DVDs in DVD player and a fix for tha mess. I use app v. 4.6.5 and my player worked quick and snappy until I inserted "pirated" (which doesn't mean the same thing here as it does in the states, as there are no copyright laws here) dvds I borrowed while here in Iraq. These DVDs very rarely play on my laptop, even more rarely on my PS2 but usually always play on my portable player. So I began thinking perhaps this was a "region" assingment issue. Strangely my buddies who own PCs rarely come across the Iraqi DVD that doesn't work in their machine. - On to my current player problem.Now it is very often that my drive hangs up on any DVD inserted. Even DVDs from the states. Typically it's slow to recognize the DVD and boot the DVD Player. othertimes it begins to read the disc and then just makes a whimpering sound while never reaching full reading speeds and won't eject till restart. Some DVD titles can be found by running a source search from the latest Handbrake, where I then rip, compress and encode a copy that will play from whichever assinged player, but will still not be found and played by DVD Player. Now the drive reads and plays and rips audio CDs fine...so thats eliminated the "broken drive" line-of-thought. It's been suggested that some of these Iraqi discs will cause a resetting of the region readability simply by trying to play. I don't know where to look to manually reset the regions for DVD Player or make any other hard resets for this app. outside of the adjustments in the prferences,(which really doesn't address this) If this is the case then I hope a simple solution would be to trash the current DvdP app and reinstall from the system discs. I would like to try the trash app/reinstall option....(explained sheepishly) but I don't really understand the process of accomplishing this.....sounds grossly newbie ? It's 'cuz it's true. And without any tech support from other (expierenced) Mac users around me..... I don't trust my not "messing things up big time." Maybe someone has some expierence with anything described here could write a reply with help and direction, thnx
kdubya
MB
2 GHz Core 2 Duo
1 GB 667 MHz
129 GB HD
OS X 10.4.1
I'm hoping to learn tha facts about the trouble surrounding my expierence with playing DVDs in DVD player and a fix for tha mess. I use app v. 4.6.5 and my player worked quick and snappy until I inserted "pirated" (which doesn't mean the same thing here as it does in the states, as there are no copyright laws here) dvds I borrowed while here in Iraq. These DVDs very rarely play on my laptop, even more rarely on my PS2 but usually always play on my portable player. So I began thinking perhaps this was a "region" assingment issue. Strangely my buddies who own PCs rarely come across the Iraqi DVD that doesn't work in their machine. - On to my current player problem.Now it is very often that my drive hangs up on any DVD inserted. Even DVDs from the states. Typically it's slow to recognize the DVD and boot the DVD Player. othertimes it begins to read the disc and then just makes a whimpering sound while never reaching full reading speeds and won't eject till restart. Some DVD titles can be found by running a source search from the latest Handbrake, where I then rip, compress and encode a copy that will play from whichever assinged player, but will still not be found and played by DVD Player. Now the drive reads and plays and rips audio CDs fine...so thats eliminated the "broken drive" line-of-thought. It's been suggested that some of these Iraqi discs will cause a resetting of the region readability simply by trying to play. I don't know where to look to manually reset the regions for DVD Player or make any other hard resets for this app. outside of the adjustments in the prferences,(which really doesn't address this) If this is the case then I hope a simple solution would be to trash the current DvdP app and reinstall from the system discs. I would like to try the trash app/reinstall option....(explained sheepishly) but I don't really understand the process of accomplishing this.....sounds grossly newbie ? It's 'cuz it's true. And without any tech support from other (expierenced) Mac users around me..... I don't trust my not "messing things up big time." Maybe someone has some expierence with anything described here could write a reply with help and direction, thnx
kdubya
MB
2 GHz Core 2 Duo
1 GB 667 MHz
129 GB HD
OS X 10.4.1