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DVD Player is probably the program I use that crashes the most. Are there any alternatives?

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up vote 16 down vote accepted

I have already recommended it once tonight!

VLC!

It runs on Mac OSX and can play a stack of files including dvds all natively without requiring any third party codecs. - here is a list of features

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I'm trying it now, and it seems ok but doesn't seem to recognize the DVD video chapters >:( – Jason S Aug 22 '09 at 0:09
well, it didn't crash like DVD Player did so it gets my vote! – Jason S Aug 23 '09 at 1:04

A second vote for VLC here.

Chapters should be in Playback menu > Chapters


Another modern alternative is MPlayer OS X Extended. I keep both installed because sometimes each is better at decoding particular files. MPlayer seems to use a bit less CPU sometimes too.

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mplayer will play DVDs (and other media), but does not necessarily have the most Mac-like interface. I keep it around because it will run some files that quicktime won't. YMMV and all that.

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