Free dvd players software for mac

Beginning with the Power Mac G4 AGP (“Sawtooth”) machines, Apple introduced version 2.0 of the Apple DVD Player software. This version (and subsequent releases) of the Apple DVD Player do not require DVD decoding and playback hardware in order to play DVD video disks.

However, at the same time, Apple introduced a limitation into the DVD player: if you have MacsBug (Apple’s machine-level debugger) installed, the Apple DVD Player will display an error message, and then exit.

The DVD Player helper performs exactly one function: it allows to use the Apple DVD Player software to watch DVD videos on a Mac on which MacsBug is installed.

All you have to do is drag the "DVD Player Helper" extension file onto your active System Folder and restart the machine.

DVD Stopper has only a small change to the loop movie applet that comes with DVD Player 3.1. Instead of looping the movie when it reaches the end, it stops the DVD Player. I made it cause I watch some DVDs and fall asleep while they play and then am awakened by some of the nightmarish loops that are used for menus.

XinePlayer is a multimedia player for Mac OS X. It is based upon the stable and mature xine multimedia playback engine.
XinePlayer is designed to be a free replacement for QuickTime Player and DVD Player.
Main features:
- Support for many popular formats including MPEG 1/2, QuickTime (MOV), DivX (AVI) and some Windows Media formats (WMV).
- DVD playback (using the VideoLan libdvdcss decoding library).
- DVD menu support for advanced navigation features.
- Playlists.
- Fullscreen playback.
- Software deinterlacing.
Enhancements:
- [BUGFIX] trying to pause stream with multiple files open used to pause all streams.
- [BUGFIX] control/right-clicking during fill-screen would sometimes steal mouse.
- [BUGFIX] Some internal stability fixes.
- [NEW] Can now set DVD region to get around some RCE discs.
- [NEW] Audio and subtitle language selection.
- [ENHANCE] Default audio level is lower.
- Open URL... menu option.
- Support for playlist-like files (e.g. RealAudio streams from websites).
- Any errors opening a stream are reported.
- Reports progress of network operations.
- Uses less memory and CPU (hopefully) on lower-spec machines.
- Ogg vorbis support.
- If XinePlayer cannot open a movie it will tell you.
- Can automatically resize window on movie size change.
- Display a little notification in the video window when state changes (e.g. deinterlace is toggled, etc).
- Attempt to open any type of file passed (i.e. no longer grey-out files in Open dialogue).
- Deinterlacing is now done via xines tvtime deinterlace plugin.
- Implement preferences dialogue.
- Audio visualisation support.
- Support post-processing plugins.
- Only use one xine engine instance per app.
- Fix frame corruption bug whereby colours appeared streaky with certain movies.

DVD Juggler is poised to be the premier Movie and DVD collection tool on the Mac!
Wrapped in a nice iPhoto/iTunes-like interface, DVD Juggler allows you to browse your Movie and DVD collection. Integrated with DVD Player.app and also MPlayer technology, you can play your movies right from the browser! Tightly coupled with Amazon.com, DVD Juggler allows you to add information about you DVDs from the internet.
Main features:
- Embedded Movie Player
- iTunes-like Search filter
- MovieLists
- Built-in MovieLists for Actors, Directors, Genres, Loaned, Borrowed and Wanted items.
- Couch Mode for use in a living room environment
- Amazon.com integration for filling in information
- DVD Player.app integration for VIDEO_TS folder playback
- Finder integration for movie file playback
- iTunes-like table browser
- iPhoto-like cover art browser
- Free!
Enhancements:
- Tiger support
- Added Region selection to Lookup Window
- Fixed crashing bug with Amazon Lookup when running in Tiger.

PlayVideoTS opens the VIDEO_TS folder of ripped DVDs into the Mac OS X DVD Player application.

PlayVideoTS works in either of two ways:

• drop a folder containing a VIDEO_TS folder onto PlayVideoTS and it will be opened and start playing in the Apple DVD Player
• append a .dvdvideo to the directory name, thus transforming the folder into a bundle recognized by PlayVideoTS. From then on you can just double click on it in the Finder to start up the ripped DVD in the Apple DVD Player.

DVD Assist is an Applescript "Stay Open" applet to enable Front Row to play VIDEO_TS folders stored on your hard drive, or any volume accessible from the Finder with adequate throughput.

DVD Assist takes advantage of a few unix tools to determine if Front Row has a movie open within a certain path. If it sees Front Row play a movie within a VIDEO_TS folder, it then tells Front Row to Quit, and opens the VIDEO_TS folder in DVD Player.