In the Ars Technica review of Golden Gate, the author first notes that the DVDPlayback framework has been removed in the initial Golden Gate version, but also says that Apple has announced that the framework “will be removed in a future MacOS release.” I don’t understand what the framework supports, so how is DVD playing/ripping affected in Golden Gate and what happens when the framework is removed?
I’ve been ripping with a program called Ripit, which is Intel-only and no longer supported, so it will be gone with Rosetta. But does the above mean that no program will be able to rip or even play DVDs?
(The comment is far down in the review under the heading “DVDPlayback.”)
As has been pointed out, the DVD player app isn’t going away. It is that specific framework, which Apple hasn’t used for quite some time, that is being dropped.
But there are plenty of open source libraries that can process DVD video without the Apple framework.
An app that depends on the Apple framework will need to be upgraded. The developers have have lots of warning, so if they haven’t replaced their back-end yet, it’s mostly on them.
If Howard is correct, then Apple’s DVD player app will continue working as always. Third-party apps that use their own DVD playback library code should also continue working as before, with whatever limitations they already have.
If there are third-party apps using the Apple DVD Player framework, well, they’re going to need to be updated to use some other library.