Change the DVD Player's default scan rate

Nov 10, '03 09:51:00AM

Contributed by: Monkeyboy

Do you find the fast forward / rewind (scan rate) of Apple DVD Player too slow? Open the com.apple.DVDPlayer.plist file within ~/Library -> Preferences in TextEdit and change the 4 in the sentence:


<key>DefaultScanRate</key><integer>4</integer>
to 8 or 16. I haven't tried it maximum, but 8 and 16 seem to work fine.

[robg adds: In 10.3, the DVD player includes variable scan rates up to 32x, so it looks like they've finally addressed this little issue.]

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