[RogueCrew]

I sat down the other night to watch a Netflix movie on my G4 iMac + 10.4.7, and low and behold, iTunes opened, but just sat there. I remember that it used to be DVDPlayer (or DVD Player) that automatically started the movie. My System Prefs (CDs & DVDs) were indeed set to have iTunes do the work, because it was the only choice available, but I didn't make the change. I did a Spotlight for DVDPlayer/DVD Player nada. I tried to reinstall DVDPlayer, and the installer said "No installation is necessary," and on trying to install from another source, "A newer version of the software already exists on this Mac.".
Any ideas on this?

[macworldguy]

Are you sure you don't have iDVD ( i DVD ) ?

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I tried to reinstall DVDPlayer, and the installer said "No installation is necessary," and on trying to install from another source, "A newer version of the software already exists on this Mac.".

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If you need to reinstall iDVD then go to the Library folder/Receipts and move packages with the names such as DVDPlayerUpdate to your desktop. After successful reinstall then you can trash those packages that you moved to the desktop. Also don't forget to do a repair permissions after that reinstall.

[RogueCrew]

Huh? I don't understand. "DVD Player" is a part of the OS X install. "iDVD" is one of the iLife apps (which I don't have) so please explain your answer.

[JackMac]

DVD Player.app should be in your "Applications" folder. Look there.

[jdb8167]

It sounds like you changed the application which opens video DVDs. You can set it back to the DVD Player using System Preferences->CDs & DVDs.
If your DVD software is missing, you will probably have to reinstall OS X. I know of no way to reinstall the DVD software that came with the computer separately.
The DVD Player software should be in your /Applications folder. If it isn't there, you are probably going to have to reinstall. If you didn't delete it, you should also check your disk for errors. Things don't just disappear on their own in general.

[RogueCrew]

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DVD Player.app should be in your "Applications" folder. Look there.

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No sh*t. Well now that I know that...

[JackMac]

Have you tried all the usual remedies like repairing permissions or logging in as another user? Do you have any repair utilities like MacJanitor or OnyX? It might even be a job for Disk Warrior. Can you locate the plist for DVD player in your preferences folder? There also should be a folder for DVD Player in the Applications Support folder.

[RogueCrew]

I have Disk Warrior, TTPro, Onyx, Cocktail, Data Rescue II, Disk Utility, Tinker Tool and even SuperDuper, which repairs permissions every night at 1:00 AM, but this isn't that kind of problem. In any event, I used Pacifier to un-package the 10.6 Combo Undater and installed DV Player from there, without a complete OS install.
None the less, this is the weirdest System thing that I have every experienced, though not the most damaging. More and more, I see odd little things happening with the Mac OS. Is Apple getting sloppy-greedy?

[JackMac]

I have had more problems with DVD Player than anything else in the OS. But that isn't saying much since all I had to do was trash the prefs and the application support folder a couple of times. That was with 10.3.x. I got VLC player and that works pretty well if I'm having problems with DVD Player.