DVD Player responding slowly

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DVD Player responding slowly

Hey all

When I insert any DVD movies to my MacBook DVD Player automatically opens and goes into full screen mode as it should, but then the disc stops spining (from what I hear) and for about 25 seconds all I see is the black screen and the spining beach ball untill the movie starts. Also sometimes when I click the eject button in DVD Player it lags with the spining beach ball for about 7-10 seconds before ejecting.

Someone has a clue to why this happens?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.6), MacBook (Aluminum) 2GHz 2GB RAM

Posted on Apr 23, 2009 12:02 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 23, 2009 12:10 PM in response to OuriNaaman

Hello,

Is this just one DVD or multiple? Make sure the disks are free of finger prints and smudges.

How to Clean a DVD or CD disk

How much free disk space on the Mac hard disk? Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon on your Desktop, then click: Get Info. In the Get Info window, click the discovery triangle so it's facing down. You will see; Capacity and Available Make sure you have 10% available disk space, 15% is better. *Insufficient available space, can cause performance issues, system corruption, and possible loss of data.*

Try deleting this file. com.apple.DVDPlayer.plist

/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences. Drag that file from the Preferences folder to the Trash, empty the Trash and restart your Mac.

Carolyn 🙂

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Apr 23, 2009 12:59 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

I have 118 GB of free space on my HD so thats not the issue.

Also I deleted the com.apple.DVDPlayer.plist and restarted my mac and it's still the same, now I noticed that if I'm currently in the movie menu and the disk stops spining because I'm not clicking any buttons in the menu, when I do click on a button it takes a few good seconds for the dvd drive to start spining the disk and respond.

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Apr 23, 2009 1:54 PM in response to OuriNaaman

Did you try cleaning the disk as I suggested?

Carolyn 🙂

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OuriNaaman Author

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Apr 24, 2009 2:09 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Well is it really necessary to clean it? I have a capacity of 150 GB and 118 GB of free space. it seems enough doesn't it?

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Apr 24, 2009 11:26 AM in response to OuriNaaman

The optical drive, not the hard disk. And make sure any CD/DVD disks you use are clean. See the link I previously posted.

http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2F2003%2Fs1 409%2F10s09%2F10s09.asp

Carolyn 🙂

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OuriNaaman Author

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Apr 24, 2009 2:15 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

Well thanks I will try it.

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