unable to play dvd's

[Tech198]

Hi all

Having a bit of trouble playing CSS protected retail discs. This is ANY disc, not just due to one or two. But all my personal non-css movies play fine.

The problem is it gets to the root menu, it stops playing. This to me sounds like a Region Lock issue, but DVD info X won't show anything.

Its a macbook pro i7 2011, bought this year in jan from Nextbyte local store.

Tried Region 4 DVD, Region 1, and Region 3.. Nothing.

I thought macbooks came with a default region set, but i guess Apple might have not done this for these late macs ? *shrugs*

 

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[Tech198]

vlc

ok...

I've just noticed DVD player will automatically set to the first disc you insert (in this case Region 4).

Seems all ik ok. but VLC has problems playing (version 1.1.9)

 

[RockPortTech]

Have you tried mplayerx? it's a free app that will play anything I toss at it.