Hi, j-b, thanks for your reply. I'm not surprised that there wouldn't be a graphical way of changing the playback speed in small steps, since the OS X GUI hasn't been updated yet. But I am surprised that it can't even be done from the command line in OS X. Are the Windows/Linux and OS X codebases th...
I just tried the same thing with my laptop (PowerBook G4) and a plain MPEG file, and had no problems. Alas, I can't shed any other light on the situation, since I don't know anything about the code differences between the two versions. Have you tried other file formats besides .avi? AVI is basically...
A more lasting solution would be to modify your drive's firmware to make it region-free. However, I don't know if a replacement firmware is available for your particular model.
So...anyone? Given that there's a slider that allows for varispeed in the Windows version, surely there must be a way to do it from the command line, at least, in the OS X version.
Like the original poster, I want to play DVDs back at reduced speed (0.96) to compensate for "PAL speedup" of film sources. I understand that right now, under OS X, the interface only permits changing playback speed by very large increments with keyboard commands (Cmd-+ and Cmd-=). However...