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powerbook867 · 09:37 PM

I recently purchased the Matrix Reloaded and discovered that there is an alternate DVD player included. I have been having some "hiccups" watching DVD's on my G5. During action scenes, there is a line that lingers for a 1/2 second that sometimes splits the screen horizontally(not necessarily centered, but a random full screen horizontal line). I was playing with different players (vlc, mplayer)and this one works flawlessly. Just thought I would pass along the info, The app is called Interactual player if any one is looking for an alternate to apple's player....

Eug Wanker · Nov 24, 2003, 11:30 PM

Is it a full fledged OS X player, and does it play other DVDs?

And it doesn't sound good if your G5 is hiccoughing on DVDs. Hmmm...

dracoleb · Nov 24, 2003, 11:50 PM

Are they doing Interactual player on the Mac now. That thing always tries to install itself on my PC. I use Power DVD on my PC and I don't exactly appreciate a program trying to install itself every-time I pop in a movie.

Jim_MDP · Nov 25, 2003, 03:52 AM

I was just talking to a friend on the Ham about Interactual. He mentioned it as a DVD player on his PC and I said I remembered it as a player for some of the bonus content on DVDs a few years ago (on my Mac). That and PCFriendly.

I hadn't seen it or thought about it in a couple years. Does it work stand-alone as a Mac DVD player� and do we even need it?

Aquila` · Nov 25, 2003, 05:16 AM

i have no porblems playing reloaded on my G5 with the Mac-dvd player. So why would you even want to install another player. I didn't even know that there is a dvd player included on the reloaded DVD.

powerbook867 · Nov 25, 2003, 06:56 AM

This is a full fledged dvd player. I watched T3 on my machine last night and it was perfect. The only reason I have been trying other players is that something appears to be going on with Panther's player, my 1.6. and my 20 inch cinema display. I have no other problems with the hardware/software except this. So I started experimenting. We don't really need a new player, but I thought if anyone else was having issues, they might be interested...

Developer · Nov 25, 2003, 07:29 AM

http://player.interactual.com/default.asp?code=MAC

powerbook867 · Nov 25, 2003, 12:34 PM

Thanks developer, for anyone that is interested!!

OwlBoy · Nov 25, 2003, 08:51 PM

Yeah, it was on the last Harry Potter DVD too.

Edit: WHOA this is from the website:

Why wasn't the InterActual Player for Macintosh released earlier?

InterActual's initial product, PCFriendly, had limited Apple support, and certain titles were released with limited Apple DVD-ROM capability.

The first release of InterActual Player 2.0 was a PC-only release, as its DVD-ROM capabilities (in particular, its ability to embed DVD-Video in HTML pages) could not be implemented under early releases of Mac OS X (10.0.x, 10.1.x). Indeed, until the release of Mac OS X 10.3 the frameworks (API) for playing DVDs were private and as a result Apple's DVD Player was the only mechanism for playing back DVDs; this limitation prevented the full integration of HTML and DVD Video on Mac OS systems.

Wow, DVD playing is a shared library now?! DVD video in HTML documents!?

Time to pop in my Reloaded DVD and see what's up...

-Owl