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"kill bill vol1" will not play on my mac
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i have a powerbook, a G4 tibook 667mhz running 10.3.2, and i have tried the apple dvd player and VLC and it won't play.
(i'm not trying to copy it or anything, just play it -- i haven't bought a player for the tv).
any ideas? is this some sort of security thing? is it just a bad disk, maybe? is there a setting, a command, an app that will help?
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must be a bad disk or something cos i've got it and it plays fine.
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thank you. i haven't had trouble playing anything before, so that seemed most likely, but thought maybe there was something (else) i did not know about.
got the receipt, so i'll exchange it.
thanks.
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oh, and making the bad copy thing still more likely: in the finder, the dvd is shown to have just two folders: "AUDIO_TS" (which appears empty) and "VIDEO_TS" (which has 24 files with extensions like .BUP, .IFO, and .VOB). whereas, in the "animatrix" dvd, there's a "AUDIO_TS" folder and loads more folders and files.
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No problems with my copy so far.
The only DVD�s that tend to make problems are double sided DVD�s like Emergency Room. They play fine for the most time-but sometimes get stuck during an episode.
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Originally posted by darrick:
i have a powerbook, a G4 tibook 667mhz running 10.3.2, and i have tried the apple dvd player and VLC and it won't play.
(i'm not trying to copy it or anything, just play it -- i haven't bought a player for the tv).
any ideas? is this some sort of security thing? is it just a bad disk, maybe? is there a setting, a command, an app that will help?
Played the whole movie on mine without problems...
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The VIDEO_TS folder is the only one that HAS to be there for it to play. And the AUDIO_TS folder is (I think) part of the DVD spec but not essential. Everything else (as in The Animatrix) is just extra fluff.
Originally posted by darrick:
oh, and making the bad copy thing still more likely: in the finder, the dvd is shown to have just two folders: "AUDIO_TS" (which appears empty) and "VIDEO_TS" (which has 24 files with extensions like .BUP, .IFO, and .VOB). whereas, in the "animatrix" dvd, there's a "AUDIO_TS" folder and loads more folders and files.
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Originally posted by cnelson87:
The VIDEO_TS folder is the only one that HAS to be there for it to play. And the AUDIO_TS folder is (I think) part of the DVD spec but not essential. Everything else (as in The Animatrix) is just extra fluff.
What he said...
I would look into exchanging the copy. Most stores let you trade a bad copy of a movie for 1 of the same.
-Owl
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Did you try VLC to check if it's not just Apple DVD Player?
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Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
Did you try VLC to check if it's not just Apple DVD Player?
"i have tried the apple dvd player and VLC and it won't play."
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Kill Bill doesn't play on my Mac if it makes you feel any better. But then again, I don't have any DVDs that don't regularly lock up DVD Player. I think I've got a bad combo drive.
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