![]() One of my favorites is a free application called MPEG Streamclip that’s developed by. Over the years as a documentary filmmaker and video editor, I’ve tested a number of handy utilities, including software that can convert and extract video files off of DVDs. Instead, Disk Utility responded with a cryptic Input/Output error message. Moreover, the playback corruption was so severe that I couldn’t use Disk Utility to make a disk image of the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders. ![]() While the internal SuperDrive in my MacBook Pro recognized the disc and instantly brought up the Apple DVD Player, the movie stuttered and skipped sequences until it stopped playing altogether. From the Image Format drop-down menu, select DVD/CD masterįollowing the above steps, I now had the option to watch the video at a later date using just the disk image, or I could make a backup copy by burning the image onto a blank DVD disc.Īnother DVD that I received in the mail over 7 years ago recently exhibited a different kind of playback problem. How to make the MacBook Air SuperDrive work with any Mac Even so, I didn’t immediately get the results I wanted until did a Google search and learned that I had to edit an Apple preference list (plist) file that allows this special SuperDrive to be usable on my MacBook Pro. Whether it was by happenstance or good luck, I finally discovered the solution to the DVD problem once I remembered that my roommate had a USB SuperDrive that she hooks up to her MacBook Air. I inserted the DVD again after running my disc cleaner in iTunes. Obviously, there was something about my SuperDrive that this DVD didn’t like. I’ve burned lots of CDs and DVDs in the past and all but a few are readable on my laptop. Nope, no difference using Parallels, either. Undaunted, I decided to see if the disc would work in Parallels 10 that’s configured as a Windows 7 virtual machine. ![]() I inserted the DVD in my Mountain Lion system and got the same results as before – rejection. I configured the OWC drive in this manner, as I have a few software programs that I use periodically such as Now Contact and Motion.app that won’t run in either Mavericks or Yosemite. I have an external hard drive that I bought from Other World Computing that I’ve partitioned into three sections: One of those partitions is bootable as an OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) system. While I didn’t think my Mac operating system was responsible for the playback problem, I thought I’d run a few tests, just to be sure. I took the same disc upstairs and the main menu for this video displayed fine using the standalone DVD player attached to the television set. According to your cousin, the DVD is not defective, because she said that before she wrapped her gift, she successfully tested the same disc in her set-top player in her living room.Ī few weeks ago, I dealt with a similar situation where the SuperDrive in my mid-2012 MacBook Pro (running Yosemite) would not recognize one of the DVDs that I had obtained from a friend. You’ve never experienced this type of hardware problem before. While other DVDs play back fine in your MacBook Pro, this disc just spins and spins before it gets ejected by the drive. Because you couldn’t get the necessary time off from your job, you couldn’t be there in person to share in the family fun and festivities. It’s a homemade DVD gifted to you by a cousin who lives on the opposite end of the country that features highlights of your uncle’s 70th birthday celebration. However, one of those gifts is perched silently on the coffee table. You have been exercising feverishly to reduce your waistline that expanded a few inches due to the endless partying, and everyone in your household has unwrapped all their gifts. The year-end holidays have come and gone.
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