Playing VIDEO_TS folders using DVD Player?

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Playing VIDEO_TS folders using DVD Player?

Hello,

Right before I updated to 10.4.3, I had started using Mac the Ripper to download all of my DVDs to my external FW drive so that they all would be instantly available to me. They played just fine in DVD Player (I just chose File, Open, and chose the appropriate VIDEO_TS foler).

However, since I upgraded to 10.4.3, anytime I try to open one of those folders in DVD Player, it says "media type not supported" or something to that effect.

Do I need to reset the preferences on DVD Player or something to get it to work again?

Thanks!

Posted on Nov 15, 2005 4:27 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 15, 2005 6:44 PM in response to Eliot Spencer

DVD Player still plays from a VIDEO_TS folder. Choose File -> Open DVD Media and select the VIDEO_TS folder.

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Answer 2

Nov 15, 2005 6:47 PM in response to Edwin Sneller

Yes, that's what I have been trying, but when I choose "Open DVD Media," I get the message saying that the media type is not supported.

Is this a problem with the latest version of DVD Player (4.6.1 I think?)

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Answer 3

Nov 15, 2005 6:50 PM in response to Eliot Spencer

Out of curiousity I just opened and played some video from a VIDEO_TS folder with DVD Player 4.6.1 and it worked fine.

I have no idea why yours won't play. Maybe it has to be on an internal drive before it will play?

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Answer 4

Cary Dean

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Nov 15, 2005 8:04 PM in response to Eliot Spencer

The logic for playing from Video_TS folders did not change on 10.4.3.
You MUST select the actual Video_TS folder.

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umamedia

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Nov 22, 2005 2:25 AM in response to Edwin Sneller

I ve the same problem. Since I add a LaCie Firewire Burner, my internal dvd-drive suddenly crashed. After three crashes I got the message "This format is not supported!"
Files are okay...

How did you solve the problem?

Greetings

Robi

PowerBook G4 17" Mac OS X (10.4.3) PowerBook5,1

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Answer 6

Nov 22, 2005 2:47 AM in response to Eliot Spencer

I haven't updated the DVD Player from 4.6 to 4.6.1 as I noticed some people were experiencing difficulty playing DVDs with it.

A couple of things you can try are to drag the VIDEO_TS folder to the DVD Player icon to open it or you can try to force-open it by holding down Cmd & Option keys and dragging the folder to the DVD Player icon.

Matthew Whiting

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Answer 7

umamedia

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Nov 22, 2005 10:01 AM in response to matthew whiting

thanks, but i get allways the same message "not supported format".

can i reinstall some tiger stuff?

thanks

robi

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Answer 8

Jan 7, 2006 11:10 AM in response to umamedia

Did this ever get solved?

I just tried 2 DVD disks... one was DVD-R and it worked like a charm. The next was DVD-RW and it reported "media type not supported".

What gives? (DVD Player 4.6, framework 4.6.1)

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