Alright - I have a 1.2GHz MacBook running X.4.11. There is very little not vanilla on this mcahine.
The machine will play CDs with no problem, however, when I put a commercial DVD in to watch a movie, DVD Player opens, but the nothing else happens. The disk will not mount on the desktop either. Disks will eject on demand.
Why can't I watch a movie or see the disk on the desktop?
TIA
--ddtm
i think its "copy protection". mine does the same thing with any newer discs, say, the last couple years or so. have you tried any older discs?
I have Private Ryan and Blackhawk Down but they may be newer burns, not sure.
Is there a work around?
It would be nice to be able to rip a disk to the HD since carrying a bundle on deployment would suck...
Did install Handbrake for that, but cannot see the disk.
Two questions:
1. What is a 1.2GHz MacBook? The slowest MacBooks were 1.8GHz Core Duos.
2. Do DVD-ROM (data, not movie) discs mount and work OK? If not, sounds like you just got a bad drive.
seems I need to pay closer attention to what goes in my eyes and out my hands to the keyboard - it is an iBook G4.
all I have for DVDs is two store bought movies (as described above) and two home movies. I just checked these and the both work (and were produced on iMovie on another Mac). These last two do mount on the desktop.
I just loaded VLC (videolan.org) and the strore nought movies play (but still do not mount to desktop.
I now believe the drive is good and the problem
is software since a third party app will play the "invisible" DVDs.
I wonder if this will solve my problem, too? I'd like to be able to still rip those DVD's and save them. I've been searching for a way since I noticed the problem, and I have a problem holding on to any sort of physical media these days...