{"id":4670,"date":"2010-11-02T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2010-11-02T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T15:58:00","slug":"allow-the-mac-dvd-player-to-skip-the-commercials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/allow-the-mac-dvd-player-to-skip-the-commercials\/","title":{"rendered":"Allow the Mac DVD Player to skip the commercials&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;\"><em>Why won&#8217;t the DVD player in OS X allow me to skip certain content or change audio\/subtitle tracks on certain DVDs?<\/em> you ask.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the first answer is UOPs, or\u00c2\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000cc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User_operation_prohibition\">user operation prohibitions<\/a>, and the second answer is probably some sort of licensing blah-blah-blah that prohibits Apple from ignoring UOPs in their software.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;\">But the\u00c2\u00a0<em>real<\/em> answer is that there&#8217;s nothing preventing you and me from modifying the DVD player software however we like. So here&#8217;s a patch to disable those annoying UOPs. It&#8217;s a simple\u00c2\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000cc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bash_%28Unix_shell%29\">bash<\/a> shell script, easy to modify in a text editor should you be so inclined.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Warning: This modifies your DVD Player application, I did not create this, nor is anyone responsible for any issues that may arise.<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Please remember to backup your DVD Player application before you applies this patch!<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;\">Here&#8217;s the link to the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/dvdplayerpatch\/\">DVD Player patch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why won&#8217;t the DVD player in OS X allow me to skip certain content or change audio\/subtitle tracks on certain DVDs? you ask. Well, the first answer is UOPs, or\u00c2\u00a0user operation prohibitions, and the second answer is probably some sort of licensing blah-blah-blah that prohibits Apple from ignoring UOPs in their software. But the\u00c2\u00a0real answer <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/allow-the-mac-dvd-player-to-skip-the-commercials\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,23],"tags":[141,326,254,84,91,212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->