Tiger's DVD Player won't play VIDEO_TS files?
I have a powerbook g4 titanium , 60 GB HD, 512 MB ram, 1Ghz processor. I use the program DVD Backup to put dvd's on my desktop as TS folders. It has served me well on business trips, bored meetings, etc. I recently upgraded to Tiger and now I can not watch the created VIDEO_TS folders on the DVD player. What is the deal?
Thank you for asking this particular question. As it turns out, I, um, made a personal backup copy of a Disney DVD onto my laptop back when it was running Panther, and it worked fine with the Panther DVD Player.
Based on your question, I checked it out in Tiger, and you're absolutely right! The Open VIDEO_TS... option on the File menu has been quietly renamed Open DVD Media... and you're right, it no longer opens and works with VIDEO_TS folders. Isn't that interesting?
Fortunately, it's not a show-stopper, because there's a great piece of freeware that you should already have on your Mac that plays oodles of different video and audio formats, far more than QuickTime and DVD Player...
Thank you for asking this particular question. As it turns out, I, um, made a personal backup copy of a Disney DVD onto my laptop back when it was running Panther, and it worked fine with the Panther DVD Player.
Based on your question, I checked it out in Tiger, and you're absolutely right! The Open VIDEO_TS... option on the File menu has been quietly renamed Open DVD Media... and you're right, it no longer opens and works with VIDEO_TS folders. Isn't that interesting?
Fortunately, it's not a show-stopper, because there's a great piece of freeware that you should already have on your Mac that plays oodles of different video and audio formats, far more than QuickTime and DVD Player...
posted by Dave Taylor at
12:06 AM
