Can't get DVD player to run disks on Mini w/Tiger — just quits

[Jimmypoo]

I second the VLC cure. You'll find that VLC plays everything and that having a few different options
around can be helpful. Plus - Quicktime can use the CODECs that come with VLC, and adding
Perian (the Swiss Army Knife for Quicktime!) - you'll have some pretty bulletproof options
to play the CD with.

http://perian.org/

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html

http://www.divx.com/en/software/mac

Those three - and you've got a nice media capable set-up. AND... one person on the forum, who put
considerable time into making a BluRay theater with big screen TV and a mini equipped to to playback
and an AppleTV and/or other insanity to sit in a chair and stare (Stavs... who shall remain nameless)
uses THIS program to control it all.

http://www.plexapp.com/mac.php

It's pretty powerful, recognizes the remote, and has a neat side scroll that you can just use the arrow keys to navigate.

NOTE -- if that mini you are using is a G4 - (since you stopped at Tiger 10.4.x) you'll have to make
sure that the above links you download are the Universals, and/or good of below 10.5 and PowerPC.