extern DVD-Drive " Mac USB-SuperDrive HL-DT-ST DVDRW GX50N"

[Quellchen]

Is USB3.0 already running? Please VB-Team, fix it. https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8873

The extern DVD-Drive "Mac USB-SuperDrive HL-DT-ST DVDRW GX50N" is running with USB2.0. - http://goo.gl/K0EMIW
At all my MacBookPro (Retina) is only running with USB3.0 and Thunderbolt. No USB2.0 Port ! - http://goo.gl/bB6KzQ
VirtualBox Extension Pack 4.3.20 is installed. (Support für USB 2.0, Remote-Desktop, Netzwerk-Booten) - http://goo.gl/2JzT8

I want to watch a DVD (running in the Guest: Windows 8.1), with the VLC Player, but it doesn´t work!
If "VirtualBox USB3.0" should not be available yet, is there an other way? Please tell me.

1.)
VirtualBox (VM) - change - Massenspeicher
- SATA: added a new "fügt einen neuen Anschluss für den ausgewählten Controller hinzu"
- "CD/DVD Laufwerk hinzufügen" (Controller SATA Port- DVD empty) -
That was successful, but it gave in the Guest no result. Clicking on the DVD (down on the guest side,
in the grey line of VirtualBox the grey colored Disk-Icon turns to a blue colored Disk-Icon, by clicking its shows HL-DT-ST DVDRW GX50N,
than I put the DVD into the USB-SuperDrive, now the DVD is shown on the running Windows 8.1 screen

When I open the DVD and play with VLC-Player the movie lacks. Terrible Audio, terrible interrupting pictures. (Not so with youtube, vimeo, etc, just with DVDs)

Systemsteuerung - Hardware & Sound - Geräte Manager - Grafikkarte -
VirtualBox GraficAdapter for Windows
(with the right mouse klick) Eigenschaften
beschleunigte Videokonvertierung (nichts merkwürdiges zu sehen)

Warum ruckelt das Video?


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[socratis]

If "VirtualBox USB3.0" should not be available yet, is there an other way? Please tell me.

Connect it to a USB 2.0 hub.

[Quellchen]

@ socratis:

USB2.0 is not available at all for MacBookPro (Retina). Look here: http://goo.gl/bB6KzQ

Anschlüsse und Erweiterungen:
2x Thunderbolt 2 Anschlüsse (bis zu 20 Gbit/s)
2x USB 3 Anschlüsse (bis zu 5 Gbit/s)

so fitting to upper datas:
my extern DVD-Drive " Mac USB-SuperDrive HL-DT-ST DVDRW GX50N" is running with USB2.0. http://goo.gl/3wtlbP

But the USB3.0-PC market is growing, so why not upgrading VirtualBox to support USB3.0.

Please VirtualBox-Developper-Team: It is time to upgrade the VirtualBox to support USB3.0 !!!

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[socratis]

Just out of curiosity... Why don't you use the native VLC player in your Mac host?

[loukingjr]

To clarify something, The SuperDrive is a USB 2.0 device. When it is plugged into a USB 3.0 port, it is still a USB 2.0 device and the Mac will treat it as such. VirtualBox running a guest will see the drive as a USB 2.0 device. It matters not that VirtualBox doesn't support USB 3.0 as far as the SuperDrive is concerned.

Whatever issue you are having playing DVDs, it is not because of the lack of USB 3.0. One issue is the SuperDrive does not play BlueRay disks natively. Certain DVDs do not play well in many DVD players because of how they are encoded.

At any rate it has nothing to do with USB 3.0.

[loukingjr]

Addendum: One thing to try to improve things is to enable "Passthrough". It may help.