[vlc] Re: VLC Installation on Mac 10.1.5

[laurak13 at bu.edu]

I've never used Apple DVD Player; this is an external Ricoh 5120 
firewire drive, and the Apple player won't recognize it.  I've never 
dealt with a region mismatch before, so I don't exactly know what the 
signs are - would the disc still show up on my desktop with a title and 
contents visible?  That is - when I put, say, The Princess and the 
Warrior in the drive, a DVD icon shows up labeled "DVD_VIDEO" (although 
others are labeled with actual titles... it just depends on the disc), 
and doubleclicking first on the icon and then on the VIDEO_TS folder 
reveals .VOB files with the VLC icon, as well as other files with only 
blank icons that I presume are for Windows use.

Also, when I attempt to run VLC 0.4.2, the drive appears to be reading 
the drive - under the controls menu the title and chapter selection are 
accessible, as opposed to when a disc is not running and they are faded 
and inactive.  However, there is no picture or sound, although, when 
attempting to run American Beauty, if I open the file VIDEO_TS.VOB I can 
get a brief picture of a menu before it goes away.

Is there any way to unset the region of the player with Mac software, or 
at least check and see if the region is set?  Is it possible to 
inadvertently set a region?

On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 05:34 PM, Christophe Massiot wrote:

> Does the same DVD play with Apple DVD Player ? Maybe at first the 
> region of your dvd drive wasn't set, and you set it afterwards, and now 
> it doesn't work anymore.
>
> -- Christophe Massiot.

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