Everytime I put in a DVD into my Superdrive, it launches DVD Player 4.0. The problem is that it keeps asking me what Region I would like to set the drive to, (Region 1,2,3,4,5, or 6), and that I can only change it 5 times and that's it - the last choice becomes the permanent one. I don't want to set the Region, so I click cancel, which unfortunately ejects the disk. Even if I don't select the auto-play option, it still asks me what region I want to choose. and again, if I cancel, out pops the DVD. Anyway, to make a long story short, to sidestep all those what region questions, I just use MPlayer OSX to play DVD's and they play just as well (without asking me what region I want to select). So my question is, can I just delete Apple DVD Player 4.0 altogether? Is it integrated with any other Apple program and deleting it would cause others to crash? Does it have features that other players don't? If I needed to reinstall it, could I download it free from the web? Or is there a DVD Player program out there that won't ask me what DVD Region I want to play? THANKS! NC
From what I know, there are two sides asking for region settings. The software player and the firmware of the DVD drive itself. Even if you delete the software side, the DVD drive will still ask for a region setting till you use up your alotted chances. So there's no point in deleting anything. Anyone care to confirm?
You can use VLC media player... a better alternative. It plays various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
Try VLC and change the configuration in your system preferences>CD/DVD Select a different player software in "When you insert a video DVD" aside from DVD 4. you then dont have to delete it.
bhengko and Macmon, Thank you for your replies! Where can I get the VLC media player? Who installs this?
Here is the site. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ available in Mac OS X, Windows, a ton of Linux, etc. (it's freeware, open source). Under your OS X Mac's System Preferences, you can change what programs open when you insert optical media. Just have the OS open VLC when you insert a DVD or choose ignore to open VLC manually.:cheers:
