DVD Player not reading media

[kellhound1]

DVD Player won't read most of my commercial DVD media. I insert the disk, and it shows up on the desktop. But when I try to run it through the DVD app, the program just freezes, and I get the beach ball. I tried opening through VLC player, and even VLC wouldn't correctly read the disk.

I have the original Apple-shipped Superdrive, as well as an external Lacie drive. I tried disks in both drives with the same result.

All my disks are Region 1 major titles.

I'm running Mac Pro 2.66ghz, 9gb RAM, OS 10.5.7.

Any suggestions?

 

[Jesse714]

NTSC or PAL?

You may have to flash your firmware, thats what i had to do on my 12' powerboook

 

[Satcomer]

Well maybe the drive lens is dirty (it happens all the time). Just use a check CD/DVD lens cleaning disk and see if that helps.

 

[djackmac]

Check the video card for blown caps or if it has a fan on the card, make sure its turning. Try to run Apple hardware test from your installer to test the hardware (especially RAM, processor) for any failures. If all is well there you can get a third party DL superdrive for that thing dirt cheap and its literally a breeze to install.