Possibly watch unmountable DVDs

Feb 26, '07 07:30:01AM

Contributed by: dipsomaniac

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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