from [log in to unmask] Hi Cindy, You can't use VLC in newer Macs. See Chris Breen's article on this in Mac World's Mac 911: http://www.macworld.com/article/133147/2008/04/wrestledvdregion.html Best, Barbara On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:26 PM, LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Greetings, all! > > In our facility at Boston College we've recently upgraded to iMacs > running Leopard (10.5.3). We've downloaded the VLC media player > (version 0.8.6h) to these machines, but are experiencing various > problems and inconsistencies in the playback of DVDs (NTSC Region 1 > and PAL Region 2) using this version of VLC. The most frequent > occurrence is a quick flashing of a black screen upon start-up of the > DVD in VLC, then no playback functionality at all. Curiously enough, > on these same Leopard machines we have installed Bootcamp with > Windows. On the Windows side the VLC media player starts up > immediately and plays back both region 1 and region 2 DVDs without a > problem. > > Has anyone else on this listserv experienced these same problems/ > inconsistencies using VLC with Leopard? My tech consultant and I > would greatly appreciate any feedback and/or suggested work-arounds > or fixes to these VLC/Leopard issues within the native Mac environment. > > Thanks so much for your valued input. > > Cindy Bravo > ___________________________ > Cynthia N. Bravo, Director > Boston College Language Laboratory > Lyons Hall, Room 313 > 140 Commonwealth Avenue > Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 > Tel. (617) 552-8473 > Fax (617) 552-2064 > Email: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] > > > *********************************************** > LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for > Language Learning Technology (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for > Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). > Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. > Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) > *********************************************** > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Barbara Lindsey, Director Multimedia Language Center Modern & Classical Languages, Unit 1057 University of Connecticut 337 Mansfield Road Storrs, CT 06269-1057 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Phone: 860.486.3093 Fax: 860.486.4392 Email: [log in to unmask] http://www.beyondwebct.wordpress.com http://www.mlc.uconn.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~