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We usually use DVD player application to play DVDs on Mac OS X. However, some Mac user's DVD Player application will probably stop functioning since upgrading operation system, so they want to know if the QuickTime player, another Mac media playing application and mainly used to play the MOV, MP4, AVI video files, is an alternative to DVD player application. Below are three questions they asked frequently:
Can QuickTime Player play DVD's?
QT player doesn't open or play DVD's.
Note: I understood from Apple website that the QT player in Mac OS X Lion supports the MPEG-2 file format. That means you can play the DVDs (without encryption) using QuickTime player on Mac OS X Lion directly.
How to play DVDs in QuickTime on Mac?
If you insist on using QuickTime player to play DVDs on Mac OS X, depending on the type of your DVDs, there are two solutions out there. 1) If your DVDs are the commercial ones encrypted by CSS or Region code, you can use a Mac DVD ripping software to copy the DVD movies to hard drive and convert them to QuickTime format. 2) If they are common DVDs (without encryption) like home-made DVDs, you need to download and install a MPEG-2 playback component to your Mac computer. And then insert your DVD to the disc drive, open "Finder" to locate the DVD file and drag & drop the file to the QT player icon in the Dock to play it. You can also right click the "D" drive and go over to open with and select QuickTime.
In order to encode commercial DVD to QuickTime playable video format like MOV, MP4, AVI etc., You need to download or buy a third software that can extract the VOB contents off DVD discs to hard drive and convert the contents to MOV, MP4 or AVI format. Below are three articles about how to rip/convert DVD to MOV/MP4/AVI on Mac OS X, you can check them if you need to:
