The DVD Player app on MacBook Pro launches but the movie does not come onto the constantly black Viewer screen. But I can still watch one specific DVD. All others are this black screen. It seems like something happened Friday when this movie (Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal) loaded. Since watching that DVD, no other DVD is watchable, only Seventh Seal.
Can anyone tell me how to correct this problem?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.6
boeufbourgignon wrote:
Here's a strange twist: I just discovered that all the DVDs made in Korea (and so region 0) still work. But those from the US still don't any longer.
DVD drives will permanently lock to a region: Change your DVD drive region in DVD Player on Mac - Apple Support
boeufbourgignon wrote:
Here's a strange twist: I just discovered that all the DVDs made in Korea (and so region 0) still work. But those from the US still don't any longer.
DVD drives will permanently lock to a region: Change your DVD drive region in DVD Player on Mac - Apple Support
To test what region my drive is currently set at I intentionally put a dvd region 2 into the external dvd drive. For the first time I got a pop up box warning me that I’m currently region 1 and asking if I really want to switch to region 2.
So I’m definitely region 1 still. That doesn’t appear to be the problem. And I had been playing these region 0 DVDs on my old MacBook Pro for the last year without any problems.
Boot into Safe Mode and try again, as that rebuilds caches and disables some of the more problematic add-ons.
Tried restarting the Mac?
Yes more than once
I’m afraid it might have a connection with Google drive popping up each time a dvd is loaded
Thanks. I just tried your suggestion but it hasn't changed anything sadly.
Here's a strange twist: I just discovered that all the DVDs made in Korea (and so region 0) still work. But those from the US still don't any longer.
Though 7th Seal is made in the US. And I verified that the computer is set to Region 1.
The computer is locked Region 1. Region 0 doesn't affect that.
The Republic of Korea can use DVD region 3, and worldwide region 0. What you get with a DVD depends on what was encoded. And the drive is what locks.
I can play only one dvd on my brand new MacBook Pro
