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Now the DVD icon is on the Desktop, so drag it onto VLC and it’ll start playing the movie within just a few seconds:
To watch a DVD, the easiest way is to insert the DVD, then quit DVD Player. VLC turns out to be a really useful video player because in addition to working with DVDs in an AirPlay friendly manner, it can also let you see WMA, AVI, MKS and many other video files, far more than iTunes can handle.
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Instead, a slick free app called VLC Media Player can be quickly downloaded from here:. Oh, okay, maybe it’s not quite that dramatic!
#Apple dvd player gray screen tv#
First off, here’s what you’d see both on the Mac screen and the TV screen if you try to watch a DVD while you have AirPlay pushing your video signal to the TV (go into Apple -> System Preferences… -> Display to enable “AirPlay Mirroring”):Ĭrazy, eh? No warning message, no pop-up “can’t view movies in AirPlay video mirror mode”, nothing.
The good news? There’s a nice alternative DVD player that will sidestep the entire issue and work perfectly with AirPlay! Whatever the nuance here, it’s sure annoying and a lot of people have bumped into this limitation of DVD Player.
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The concept behind this is probably something to do with the definition of “broadcast” rights with a consumer DVD playback system according to some Byzantine MPAA regulation that Apple has to follow so as not to get in trouble with the big players in Hollywood.The fact that you can still plug in your TV directly via HDMI and watch a movie full screen (particularly easy if you have an HDMI plug on the Mac directly, as the latest generation sports) presumably falls under some other nuance of the law as that’s an alternative approach to having the DVD in your computer but the movie shown on the TV. You can see that’s the case because you can watch an iTunes movie via AirPlay without the slightest hiccup. I am always surprised, though, when anyone wanting to watch Now native on a TV set, and having issues, doesn’t just buy a Roku device or an Amazon Firestick at a small cost, and use that.There’s actually nothing broken in the configuration you specify, what you’re hitting is a built-in limitation of DVD Player that’s tied to digital rights management (DRM) requirements for the Apple DVD playback code. What model of Samsung TV have you got that used to work and now doesn’t? Though Now on my 2015 JS9000 is a bit hit and miss, but solid as a rock on the Roku Stick+ connected to it, so I use that, except when troubleshooting. So it takes the safest option, in view of its obligations to its content providers, and shuts down the video when it detects screen-sharing software.Īs far as I know, the support for Samsung TVs hasn’t changed recently, and is still as here:. Now’s problem with screen mirroring is that it doesn’t know if the stream is going to an HDCP-compliant device, or can’t be bothered to check.
Maybe your parents are Mac mavens, I don’t know, and wouldn’t dream of getting NowTV via a Stick or any other way? In which case fine.īut if you offered them the choice of what they have now, or a £20 Stick, which way do you think they would ‘slight argument’ would have been over two years ago The simplest and most reliable way by far to have NowTV, if you don’t have it as a built-in app on a TV, is with a NowTV or Roku Stick. If there is TV/home cinema/media stuff in my house that nobody can work but me, then I count that a failure and look for simplifications.Īnd I got the idea from your post above that you did not want to over-burden them with technicalities, but maybe I got that wrong? The three stars beside my name indicate that I am one of the Community Contributors, so yes a NowTV customer not an employee, but we are a team who regularly help out here.Īnd I must hold my hand up to being a techie (IT support is my day job) but I know lots of people, especially our parents, aren’t, and we must temper our wind to the shorn lamb with them.
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