Re: DVD player refusing to play in 10.3.9

DBSnappa <davidjREMOVEMEboughton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Hylton Boothroyd wrote:
> > But the DVD Player promptly terminates when I launch it.
> 
> ... have you used the Mac to play DVDs 
> before or done anything to necessitate a OSX re-install?

It's my wife's PowerBook, which has in its time met most of the other 7
Macs run by my children and grandchildren.  At some time it's had its
region reset to Region 1 to watch DVDs from the USA, and has 4 resets
left.  It's only had two major bouts of OS changes, once when we had the
local experts in set us up with wifi and ethernet and broadband, and
once when I finally got round to getting a machine that _required_ OSX
and moved the PBook to 10.3.9 while I was going to 10.4.9 and later. 

> ... it turned out that it was set in System Preferences to 
> do nothing with DVDs

That bit was OK.

> Like Jaimie said, if all else fails I'd be inclined to try VLC (it's 
> Freeware). That usually plays anything I find.

I'm persuaded that I ought to have VLC around

Thanks

-- 
Hylton