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This might save someone some frustration. A DVD I just bought would not mount. The optical drive would spin up for a few seconds, and then nothing. DVD Player and MacTheRipper could not see the disc, but Disk Utility could. So I just made a disk image of the DVD and watched the movie from there.
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Incidentally, I've never had a problem with a DVD before. I think the issue with this one was that the two layers were very, very slightly misaligned. But I guess that was enough to cause a problem for the vertically-oriented drive in my iMac (the disc played in my DVD player just fine).
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Possibly watch unmountable DVDs
Authored by: satcomer on Feb 26, '07 09:41:13AM

I run to this problem once in a while on my upgraded DVD-RW drive in my G5. I just reset my PRAM to fix this problem.



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Authored by: hleichtl on Feb 26, '07 02:33:35PM

well, i have the same problem from time to time. VLC did it for me, as it obviously reads the raw device entry under /dev



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Authored by: aczunig on Feb 26, '07 04:31:29PM

I have this problem from time to time but a simple restart usually fixes things. This being said I still can't watch Superman the movie on my DVD player.



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Authored by: homemadefading on Mar 27, '07 11:21:06PM

Could this also be a solution for playing another dvd sone?

I have a Powerbook with a dvd drive that cannot be altered. So I am stuck with the dvd sone settings from dvd player. I also have 2 gigs free on my harddrive, so I cant test this. But any tips? Could it work? Mounting it. Would it then read?



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