When I play DVDs on my MacBook, I often get a “skipping over damaged area” message, when the disc operates perfectly fine on a DVD player. This happens actually quite frequently, even with absolutely brand-new discs right out of the box. What’s going on?
The computer DVD drive has a lower tolerance for errors, as it is also designed to be used to install software, which can’t be extrapolated like video data can.
It depends on two things: the software, and the hardware.
I suppose that makes sense. But it means I’m going to have to hunt down a portable DVD player, I guess.
The drive on the Mac should work just as well. I would say the Mac drive is just a bit on the edge. I have had drives like that which later got worse without failing entirely. Maybe a cleaning and/or realignment would help but drives are so cheap you could just get a new one, which is what I did.
A real cd players plays cds better than your pc as well.
Most computers’ DAC sucks.
Who uses DAC’s for playing audio CD’s on their PC now a days? It’s all digital.
Inf act, I’d day that the PC can do a better job, depending on the audio hardware. Same goes for DVD’s, taking into account quality of picture/audio your PC has a lot of muscle to turn on lots of filters on the fly. It’s up to the software to utilize that power though.
The op’s problem sounds like a hardware issue. Can you replace your DVD player? I know mac hardware is more expensive, but a DVD burner for a PC is like $30. It can’t be that much more for a mac.
At some point there is a DAC. It may be some kind of 1bit sigma delta converter but the speaker or headphones are analog and the computer is digital so there is a Digital to Analog Converter somewhere.
True, I was thinking of the old DAC that went from Cd straight to the card. But the audio card is the DAC now, and even a lowly built in audio chipset on a mobo is going to do a good job of it, never mind a soundblaster audigy.