what is the best dvd player for mac?

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Do you mean DVD player software? Or a DVD drive?

Mac OS X comes with an application called DVD Player. VLC (free download) is also a good player.

If you mean DVD drive, I'm afraid I can't be of much help since all my Macs have built-in DVD drives.

How much is the "DVD Player" application on the Mac?

James

Is it free? Or is there a price?

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The DVD player app on the Mac is bundled with OS X and comes free with every new Mac. You cannot buy it separately.

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iDVD (apple application) WONT PLAY IN DVD PLAYER, ONLY IN PS3?

ddti

I burned a slide show with music onto a DVD+R blank disc. It appears to be successful as in DOES play in several Play Station 3 units, but will NOT play in any dvd player or computer. It is so frustrating & the dvd is a gift for someone so this is very time sensitive!! :(
What could be wrong? Do I need to do something different in finalizing the completion of the burn? I have heard to maybe try a DVD-R?? But the video is on there as we have watched in on a playstation, how can I get it to play on a dvd player or computer??? Again, I am using an apple mac book pro with iDVD application to burn the dvd. THANKS SO MUCH!!

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To insure compatibility you need to use a DVD-R disc burned no faster than 2x and you MUST FINALIZE! Only computers recognize non-finalized discs. Finalizing with verify will make the disc DVD player compatible.

What to do with HD DVD players?

StanleyB51

It is not really a question; it is more like a challenge. Now that HD DVD is no longer, someone should crate a website were all the technical people and software engineers will try to find another uses and applications for the existing units sold till today. Sort off like what they did for YUGO car. People began to build different things in to it like piano, Jacuzzi etc. Toshiba will be helpful by releasing the code to the public and put some monetary reward. Perhaps wee can see another âLENUX DVDâ Your opinion please.

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I agree with TV Guy. I bought an HD-DVD player before Christmas. I just plan on using it for the HD-DVD movies I own and as an upscaling DVD player for the hundred DVDs I already own. Given the number of free movies that I got and how good my existing DVDs look with it compared to my old DVD player, I'll just hold out for awhile until the price of Blu-ray players comes down a bit more before rushing out. Once they hit about $200, it'll have cost me no more for the HD-DVD player and Blu-ray player "then" as it costs for a Blu-ray player "today" ($399).

The HD-DVD situation is not like the LaserDisc situation from a decade ago where LaserDisc players really only played LaserDiscs and often didn't even play CDs.

Sorry, not really interested in the ideas of how to cannibalize a perfectly good upscaling DVD player that also happened to play HD-DVD.

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How can I take a screenshot of a DVD on a Mac?

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Florence

Every time I try to take a screenshot of a DVD that is open in the DVD Player application, it comes up as a gray and white checkered box where the picture would be. I've tried simply using Shift+command+4 as well as typing the DVD grab code (screencapture -i ~/Desktop/DVDGrab.png) into Terminal, but nothing seems to change this. I cannot get the DVD to open in VLC no matter what I try, and I think that's because the DVD was created on a computer from a video taken on a video camera, and is not a commercially produced DVD. Is there any way to open this DVD in VLC or take a screenshot that actually works using the DVD application? Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated!

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Hey, that is a great question, thanks for posting on Yahoo Answer.

Log into your apple account on this site and ask the question in the advanced apple supporters.
https://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa



Good Luck


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Has Apple released whether the DVD Player application will be available on the iPad?

mothercary

I know it obviously won't be able to play DVD's, but there might be a way to connect a DVD player to it. This would be an alternative to filling up the small hard drive with iTunes library.

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DVD support will never come to iPad and very soon it will disappear from many netbooks to make it lighter.

If you want more memory , there are plenty of apps available that streams video,audio from home computer over Wi-Fi or 3G. You don't have to be on the same network.

Besides, you can also get some memory on Box and Drop Box. Both have FREE apps for iphone/iPad.

DVD is in last phase of its life anyway.

NetBooks can never match the quality of iPad. Accelerometer based gaming interface with HD graphics makes it incredible. iWork is immaculate on it and it costs only $30. On netbooks MS Office cost somewhere near $115.

Thousand of wonderful apps make iPad a stupendous gadget. iPad has apps like YouTube,DailyMotion,Metacafe,TV.net and many thousand more. You can download files,Audio,Video,Books,Comics,.rar file,exe software right from iPad.
There are many apps available to download.
iPad is much more useful and than any netbook

You can watch full length movies,full episodes of TV shows, thousands of Animation movies and all kinds of video ONLINE for FREE.
You dont need FLASH support to play video content. R.I.P FLASH
All the websites are recoding video content in HTML 5.And iPad supports HTML 5

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Has Apple released whether the DVD Player application will be available on the iPad?

best dvd player application image

mothercary

I know it obviously won't be able to play DVD's, but there might be a way to connect a DVD player to it. This would be an alternative to filling up the small hard drive with iTunes library.

Answer
DVD support will never come to iPad and very soon it will disappear from many netbooks to make it lighter.

If you want more memory , there are plenty of apps available that streams video,audio from home computer over Wi-Fi or 3G. You don't have to be on the same network.

Besides, you can also get some memory on Box and Drop Box. Both have FREE apps for iphone/iPad.

DVD is in last phase of its life anyway.

NetBooks can never match the quality of iPad. Accelerometer based gaming interface with HD graphics makes it incredible. iWork is immaculate on it and it costs only $30. On netbooks MS Office cost somewhere near $115.

Thousand of wonderful apps make iPad a stupendous gadget. iPad has apps like YouTube,DailyMotion,Metacafe,TV.net and many thousand more. You can download files,Audio,Video,Books,Comics,.rar file,exe software right from iPad.
There are many apps available to download.
iPad is much more useful and than any netbook

You can watch full length movies,full episodes of TV shows, thousands of Animation movies and all kinds of video ONLINE for FREE.
You dont need FLASH support to play video content. R.I.P FLASH
All the websites are recoding video content in HTML 5.And iPad supports HTML 5

How do you get rid of subtitles on DVD Player?

oheyohey

I can't seem to get rid of the subtitles that appear every time I watch something on my mac with the application DVD Player. It is not the disk that is set up to have subtitles. Any ideas?

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I guess this is an option to remove the subtitles on your player. You can right click the movie while player and it should give an an option there which says primary subtitle. Click no subtitle.

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I have a downloaded movie on my computer in wmv format. How can I burn it to a DVD to play on my DVD player?

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Tom Tom

I have SONIC, a multi burning application program that comes standard on HP computers. I have tried using it and burned the movie to a DVD, but it is only good when I stick it in my computer. It does not work in my DVD player.

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if you download any converters, like DivX, you can convert most files so that you can watch them and burn them. you can also download the DivX Player to watch them on your computer.

How to connect my Sony dvd player that is wireless, to my Sony TV that is not wireless?

Bryan

I have a Sony Bravia TV that does not have the built-in wireless function. However, the Sony 3D DVD player that I own does have the wireless function.

My question is before I spend $80 for the Sony Bravia wireless TV USB adapter that has terrible reviews, is there a way to connect the DVD player with the TV somehow so the TV can get the internet from the DVD player?

Thanks,

PS- Please don't say sorry we can answer any questions unless we have every little peace of information about the TV and the DVD player.

Just a simple yes or no will suffice.

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"wireless" refers to a network connection. You still need use a HDMI cable to physically connect the player to the TV.

You can then configure your player to connect to your home's wireless (also called "wifi") network so it you can use its network applications like Facebook, or Netflix or whatever else it has installed.

While they do make "smart TVs" that have these same network features, you do not need both your TV and player to have them. Just one or the other. In your case the player will access the internet and display the contents on your TV.

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How to connect my Sony dvd player that is wireless, to my Sony TV that is not wireless?

best dvd player application image

Bryan

I have a Sony Bravia TV that does not have the built-in wireless function. However, the Sony 3D DVD player that I own does have the wireless function.

My question is before I spend $80 for the Sony Bravia wireless TV USB adapter that has terrible reviews, is there a way to connect the DVD player with the TV somehow so the TV can get the internet from the DVD player?

Thanks,

PS- Please don't say sorry we can answer any questions unless we have every little peace of information about the TV and the DVD player.

Just a simple yes or no will suffice.

Answer
"wireless" refers to a network connection. You still need use a HDMI cable to physically connect the player to the TV.

You can then configure your player to connect to your home's wireless (also called "wifi") network so it you can use its network applications like Facebook, or Netflix or whatever else it has installed.

While they do make "smart TVs" that have these same network features, you do not need both your TV and player to have them. Just one or the other. In your case the player will access the internet and display the contents on your TV.

What file extensions play on an Old Regular DVD Player?

A

Hi.
I have an old Sony DVD Player, and want to play a DVD on it. My file is .AVI. What file extension should I convert it to in order to play it?

Thanks.

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Video conversion is fairly simple...

DVD players generally use a standard file type called VOB which is
found in a folder called Video_TS on most all Movie DVD's

The best programs I know of that can convert an AVI to the correct format are:

WinAVI
ConvertX to DVD
and Nero burning applications

If you have an application like NERO or Roxio, they can usually convert an AVI
directly to a DVD in the proper formats.


Hope this helps
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