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fatreg
Joined: Jul 26, 2003
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right ive got a bone to pick!
so my mac is all singing all danicng, so why the hell does it not play DVDs??
ive put 3 retail dvds in the player and not a single one has worked. apple dvd players disc not supported and VLC jsut quits?
they were all region free music dvds. but that shouldnt make any difference should it?
or am mac clever enough to lock the dvd drive to only read region 2? if so can i remove the the region coding? as i got a lot of music dvds from the US. and would like to view em on here!
help me please!!
fatreg
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Jools
Joined: May 21, 2003
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The drive isn't region locked to start with. The first time you put in a disk it will prompt you to set the region of the drive. You get 5 changes in total I think, then it is locked to the last region you set. But this shouldn't affect region-free disks.
These aren't the same DVDs you had problems with on your PC are they?
Try a region-locked DVD movie, and set the region of the drive to 2. Then try these region-free disks.
If you want a completely region-unlocked drive you'll have to flash the firmware with a hacked one. Have a look in Apple Menu > About this Mac > More Info > Hardware > ATA to see what your drive is.
Then have a look on http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php for a region free firmware. Note this will probably invalidate your warranty. Also, even with a region-free firmware, you'll still have to change the firmware, except that you'll be able to reset the 5-times only limit.
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fatreg
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Hi Jools,
went there after posting the above message and it appears as though nothing can be done yet 
as ive got a matsushita (panasonic) DVD RW Drive
no not the same dvds, these are new ones 
also got me a small other problem now
ive downloaded a 700mb file that split across 45 rar files, but the only thing is, stuffit doesnt recognise that .r01 thru .r45 are all interlinked, ive been to rarlabs.com and they only do a command line version of winrar for macs!
is there any other archiving tool that a mac can use that will know that .r01 will link to .r02 and so on?
i sure hope so, or ive just wasted a good few hours!
cheers
fatreg
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haynesycop
Joined: Mar 10, 2004
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Erm, i use stuffit deluxe, maybe this will work, can send you it if you want pop on msn.
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fatreg
Joined: Jul 26, 2003
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im there lau!
fatreg
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haynesycop
Joined: Mar 10, 2004
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Were? I cannot see you.
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Cycovision
Joined: Nov 30, 2003
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From: England
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I think msn is playing up again, I can't sign in even.
on the subject of DVD's, good old winders does the same thing, if you use all of your changes up you have to reinstall
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fatreg
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msn is being gay indeed!
im on ichat if ya wanna add me miss c, im sure you can work out my login!!
@ cyco, my pc dvd player isnt locked at all! windvd sorted me out 
fatrge
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Cycovision
Joined: Nov 30, 2003
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From: England
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Ahhhhh, but using windvd is cheating!
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Jools
Joined: May 21, 2003
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This is what I use for my rar downloads...
http://unrarx.sourceforge.net/
never had one it can't piece back together again.
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fatreg
Joined: Jul 26, 2003
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Jools!
I LOVE YOU!
that has worked a charm, not just burning it to dvd 
cheers
fatreg
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Gigs
Joined: Jan 19, 2004
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From: The planet Snibertron!
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@Dicky, MissC:
If you want to setup security on wireless routers without worrying about keys etc, then check your wireless router for "MAC authentication" (Just got a netgear myself, forget what its called in there though lol) and just work off the MAC (hardware) address of your PC/Mac.
It'll stop anyone freeloading off your wireless connection too  |
fatreg
Joined: Jul 26, 2003
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hmmm,
im having realy trouble getting my music off my ipod and onto my mac
ive tried ipod disk and as not all my music is named proplerly, it wont copy it all!
ive then tried senti, that copies ll 8721 songs but i dont know what it does with them??
also used tinker tool and copied my music folder to my HDD, but as the folder is hidden it wont let me add to it itunes!
ive heard my last resort in iRip but do you think i can find it?
ooh and memba is ipod atm is pc formatted not mac
cheers peeps
fatreg
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Jools
Joined: May 21, 2003
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Senuti is your best bet, but you have to tell it where to put the music by choosing 'Preferences' from the 'Senuti' menu, then click 'Copying'. There's also an option in there to automatically add it to iTunes.
By default it is set to copy the music to your users 'Music' folder. If you've already copied it check if its there...
Open your 'Macintosh HD > Users > (Your User Name) > Music' and hopefully it should all be in there. If so, open iTunes.
In iTunes go to "iTunes > Preferences > Advanced > General' and check 'Keep iTunes Music folder orgnaised' and 'Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to Library'. Click 'OK'.
Then drag all your music into iTunes and wait while it adds it and sorts it all out for you.
Finally, you just have to make sure you haven't got two copies of all your music.
iTunes will store all your music in:
'Macintosh HD > Users > (Your User Name) > Music > iTunes > iTunes Music'.
Any other copies of your music can be deleted.
Hope that helps!
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fatreg
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Jools,
you are supurb! that worked like a charm
all songs now on itunes w00t
cheers
fatreg
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Posted: 2006-04-16 13:37
