On 2008-05-14 22:31:18 +0100, hylton.boothroyd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Hylton
Boothroyd) said:
> PGG <paul@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> On May 13, 11:53 pm, hylton.boothr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Hylton
>> Boothroyd) wrote:
>>
>>> Can a drive with specs
>>>
>>> Model: MAT****A CD-RW CW-8123
>>> Revision: CA0T
>>> Drive Type: CD-RW/DVD-ROM
>>> Disc Burning: Apple Sup****ted/****pped
>>>
>>> be expected to play a French film on a commercial DVD?
>>
>> France uses the same region encoding as the UK, so I doubt it's a
>> region issue. It's more likely to be a complex copy-protection issue
>> if it's a recent DVD, or a encoding issue if it's an early one. Does
>> Console give any clues?
>
> Console had recorded DVD Player cra****ng three times on Thread 0, each
> time re****ting
>
> Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
> Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000024
>
> Which looks alarming to me!
No, that's a pretty common sort of crash - the kernel is stopping the
app accessing protected memory. DVD Player shouldn't be doing that.
> However, the more promising news is that having powered down for other
> reasons, I've just found that DVD Player is no longer cra****ng at launch
> with the same DVD present.
Cool. I wonder what the problem was.
Cheers,
Chris
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