How do I disable my DVD auto start on a Mac OS X?

Question

Everytime I put a DVD disc in my Mac, it automatically starts up the DVD player and goes full screen. How do I disable this action?

Answer 1

To stop the DVD player application from launching when a DVD is inserted, follow the steps below:

1. Click the Apple menu and then select "System Preferences" from the drop-down list.

2. Now, select "CDs & DVDs".

3. Click the drop-down menu next to where it says "When you insert a video DVD", and then select "Ignore" from the list.

4. Close System Preferences.



If you just want to stop the DVD player application from going into fullscreen mode, ignore the instructions above and follow these steps:

1. Open the DVD player app.

2. From the menu bar, select DVD Player → Preferences.

3. Click on the "Player" tab and deselect "Enter fullscreen mode".

4. Click the "OK" button to confirm.

Answer 2

Osx Dvd Player

Answer 3

Don't download anything. Too many salesmen get on this forum and try to get you to buy their products. There are only two reasons why you might need to use iDVD: * You want to play the movie on a set-top DVD player instead of on a computer. * You need to add a menu for selection of chapters or extra materials. I think your teacher only expects you to make a movie file that can be played on a computer. For that, all you need is iMovie. You need to explain fully what you mean by this stuff: > "it will NOT burn to a DVD, or CD" You only need to drag a file to a blank CD if it is less than 700MB (or 730MB if an extended CD) or to a blank DVD if it is over 730MB. Then you burn the CD/DVD by clicking the "Burn" button in a Finder window. A self-contained movie file dragged to a DVD is the same as dragged to a CD -- it will not play as a DVD with menus and such, but you open the file by double-clicking just as you would from a CD or hard drive. > "I don't know how to put it on a jump-drive" You only need to drag it to the jump drive in a Finder Window. > "It will not let me make it a quicktime movie" iMovie ONLY makes QuickTime movies. After that, iMovie can "Share" the project as any of a dozen other types of movie files. Read on... iMovie makes a project package (My Great Movie.iMovieProject, for example). If you right-click / control-click the package, choose "Show Package Contents", you get a new window with at least one folder ("Media") and a file "My Great Movie.iMovieProj". Inside the Media folder is at least one video file. The problem is that unless your teacher has installed QuickTime on his Windows computer, he can only play Microsoft type videos. Open the project in iMovie. Go to File > Share. For the choice of "Compress movie for..." click to see the option and choose "Expert setting". Then click "Share". After a second, you get the window to navigate where you want to save the movie and at the bottom of the window, you can change the file type to AVI or whatever. When you are done, you will have "My Great Movie.AVI" or whatever. Put a blank CD in the drive and wait for it to load. Depending on your settings, the response could be iTunes opens (quit iTunes if t does), Disk Utility opens (quit Disk Utility if it does), or nothing happens. A CD image "untitled" will mount. Right-click / control-click the CD image and rename it to what you like. Drag the movie file to the CD image. Nothing appears to happen, but an alias ("shortcut") will be added to the CD image. In a Finder window, you will see a "Burn" button next to the CD image. Click it (or right-click the CD image on the desktop and choose "Burn").