DVD Player is broken

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DVD Player is broken

I am finally admitting to myself that the Leopard DVD player app is broken. in almost every movie I attempt to watch, I get the infernal "Skipping over damaged area" message even when there is nothing wrong with the disc. Has anyone managed to find a solution to this? It really kills the idea of a Mac Mini as a HTPC.

MBP 2.2 / 2 gig ram / 160 gig HD, Mac OS X (10.4.9), MacPro 2.66 / 5 gigs of ram / 1.8TB hd

Posted on May 6, 2008 2:00 PM

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Jun 2, 2008 10:58 AM in response to motoxpress

yup...im having the same issue. and this is on a REPLACEMENT mac book pro that apple very grudgingly replaced after the keyboard, display, optical board (twice!), motherboard and battery ALL had to be fixed on the old one. i say old...it was only a year and a half old and had all these issues. and mac were awful about it...sigh....and now the new one seems to have this issue.

if you do a google search you'll see that this appears to be a bug with leopard...the updates seem to be causing more issues than they solve, and none of them address this particular problem with the optical drives.

has anyone out there in apple read these posts????
ideas apple?
c'mon lads....sort it out please.

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