ToTo Man
the band not the dog
In preparation for the arrival of a 2012 i7 Mac Mini I’ve been investigating which OS would be most appropriate for my usage. I remained on Snow Leopard for years on my 2012 C2D Mini, mainly out of laziness, because all of the software I used ran great on it, but I eventually upgraded to El Capitan and that is where I’ve stayed.
By chance I came across a post on Apple Discussions that the DVD Player app had been done away with in Mojave. This turned out not to be the case, it has been instead been moved out of the Applications folder into a hidden folder along with several other apps that have apparently fallen out of favour.
The app has, however, had a ‘makeover’. The GUI is different, and it no longer reads DVD rips that have had the VIDEO_TS folder put inside a .dvdmedia container (this was previously the only way to get the app to play DVD rips). You now have to instead load the enclosed VIDEO_TS folder from within the app, which is a bit of an annoyance.
The worst thing however, is there is no longer an EQ facility in the DVD Player app. This is a deal-breaker for me and I’m extremely angry that it has been removed.
VLC provides an EQ, but it isn’t as useful as the one in the DVD Player app. Elmedia Player’s EQ is even better than the one in the DVD Player app but this app doesn’t handle .VOB files nicely (it only plays the particular .VOB file that’s loaded so your viewing/listening experience is interrupted every few minutes when that .VOB file ends and you need to manually load the next .VOB file!).
Before someone states the obvious, yes, I could avoid this hassle by using Handbrake to convert all 400+ of my DVD rips to mkv files and having a wider choice of playback software, but the point is I wouldn’t have to do this is if Apple had just left the damn DVD Player app alone as it was fine as it was!
Are there any other instances of apps being dumbed down in Mojave that I should be aware of?
And, is there any way to get the version of the DVD Player app that’s installed on ElCap/Sierra/HighSierra to work on Mojave, or is that a no go?
By the looks of it I'll probably make my new Mini a dual-boot machine with El Capitan and Mojave and will likely spend the majority of my time on the El Cap partition…
By chance I came across a post on Apple Discussions that the DVD Player app had been done away with in Mojave. This turned out not to be the case, it has been instead been moved out of the Applications folder into a hidden folder along with several other apps that have apparently fallen out of favour.
The app has, however, had a ‘makeover’. The GUI is different, and it no longer reads DVD rips that have had the VIDEO_TS folder put inside a .dvdmedia container (this was previously the only way to get the app to play DVD rips). You now have to instead load the enclosed VIDEO_TS folder from within the app, which is a bit of an annoyance.
The worst thing however, is there is no longer an EQ facility in the DVD Player app. This is a deal-breaker for me and I’m extremely angry that it has been removed.
VLC provides an EQ, but it isn’t as useful as the one in the DVD Player app. Elmedia Player’s EQ is even better than the one in the DVD Player app but this app doesn’t handle .VOB files nicely (it only plays the particular .VOB file that’s loaded so your viewing/listening experience is interrupted every few minutes when that .VOB file ends and you need to manually load the next .VOB file!).
Before someone states the obvious, yes, I could avoid this hassle by using Handbrake to convert all 400+ of my DVD rips to mkv files and having a wider choice of playback software, but the point is I wouldn’t have to do this is if Apple had just left the damn DVD Player app alone as it was fine as it was!
Are there any other instances of apps being dumbed down in Mojave that I should be aware of?
And, is there any way to get the version of the DVD Player app that’s installed on ElCap/Sierra/HighSierra to work on Mojave, or is that a no go?
By the looks of it I'll probably make my new Mini a dual-boot machine with El Capitan and Mojave and will likely spend the majority of my time on the El Cap partition…
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