Manage online streams. The 3.0.16 version of VLC media player for Mac is provided as a free download on our software library. The actual developer of this free software for Mac is VideoLAN non-profit organization. The VLC media player installer is commonly called vlc-2.1.0.dmg, vlc-2.1.2.dmg, vlc-2.1.3.dmg, vlc-2.1.4.dmg or vlc-2.1.5.dmg etc. I am using a brand-new 2.6GHz MacBook Pro running 10.5.1 (my first Intel Mac and first time with Leopard as well), and although the DVD Player app screams for me to set my region when I try to play a pre-recorded DVD with it, VLC does not.
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I think there are some bad assumptions here. '/dev/rdisk' needs to define the number for the physical drive starting with '0' (ie. /dev/rdisk0, /dev/rdisk1, etc).
The 'list disks' command lists all of the volumes connected to the computer. I have 4 hard drives totalling 16 volumes (partitions). And I have a server connected. All 17 of those get counted individually by 'list disks' and the result is '/dev/rdisk16' which means the external DVD drive would be counted as '/dev/rdisk17' when it gets connected.
But, the 4 physical hard drives really occupy '/dev/rdisk0' thru '/dev/rdisk3' and the connected server does not use a '/dev/rdisk' mount point. So, in theory, when the external DVD drive get connected, it would occupy '/dev/rdisk4'.
HelloQuick tutorial on how to play Multi-Region DVD's through VLC Player. VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. VLC media player has the ability to play some of the encrypted Blu-ray discs on Windows and Mac if you configure the necessary files for it.
But what if you put a DVD into the external drive but don't immediately play it? And then later you plug in another drive, say a thumb flash drive. The flash drive now becomes the last device after the external DVD drive. On my system, the DVD drive would be '/dev/rdisk4' and the flash drive would be '/dev/rdisk5'. So, you then run the script, and even if the 'list disks' command actually worked the way you were thinking it would, the script would then return '/dev/rdisk5' for the DVD drive even though it is really '/dev/rdisk4'. You cannot assume that the DVD drive is always the last device in the chain.
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You need to find a more clever way to detect the real virtual device number for the DVD drive.