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My Mac DVD Plater will not recognize external DVD player
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<blockquote data-quote="hughvane" data-source="post: 955915" data-attributes="member: 56231"><p>I read something similar on a different Mac forum <a href="http://forums.macosxhints.com/" target="_blank">The macosxhints Forums - For discussing everything OS X...</a>. The answer was, I seem to recall, that the Apple DVD Player app would not play a dvd from an external source, something to do with the necessity of a direct IDE connection. I wish I could be more specific, but it was well over a year ago.</p><p></p><p>The solution, as I recall, was to use VLC Player. I know from experience that if does work, but you need firewire connection. Even then, the transfer rate makes it less than ideal.</p><p></p><p>May I ask why you're using an external drive to play a dvd? Has the eMac's internal one died?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hughvane, post: 955915, member: 56231"] I read something similar on a different Mac forum [url=http://forums.macosxhints.com/]The macosxhints Forums - For discussing everything OS X...[/url]. The answer was, I seem to recall, that the Apple DVD Player app would not play a dvd from an external source, something to do with the necessity of a direct IDE connection. I wish I could be more specific, but it was well over a year ago. The solution, as I recall, was to use VLC Player. I know from experience that if does work, but you need firewire connection. Even then, the transfer rate makes it less than ideal. May I ask why you're using an external drive to play a dvd? Has the eMac's internal one died? [/QUOTE]
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