You can try software like VLC or 5KPlayer. DVD Player will launch and you’re ready to use it to watch and play DVD. If there is no issue with the hardware or the disc, another player will work. The simplest way to open DVD Player in MacOS Mojave 10.4 is through Spotlight: Hit Command + Spacebar to bring up Spotlight (or click the little Spotlight icon in the upper right corner of the screen) and search for DVD Player, then hit Return / Enter to launch it. PS: One can skip step #2 D above, just reinserting still usually fixes the problem. After the above fixes, if still the DVD player is not responding on Mac, you can try another option than buying an external drive to work with the DVD player app - play the DVD with another DVD player. I doubt the USB ports on the Mac are defective, but one could just check each one in turn with a flash drive, make sure the flash drive shows up on the desktop, eject it and go to the next USB port and test.īTW: I'm on Mojave with a 2012 Mac Mini and I don't get the little "kadoobry", the eject button icon in the menu bar - wonder why - probably because the 2012 Mini didn't come with an internal CD/DVD drive. So the drive is getting power from the Mac via the USB port but it doesn't recognize it for whatever reason In this case, the drive does spin up but the Mac doesn't recognize it. With a CD/DVD drive one has to have a disk in the drive and the drive has to spin up before one knows if the Mac recognized it or not. It is interesting that after I went and downloaded 3 other Mac player apps I had no issues with any of. Not sure what apps or configuration we would have to cause this issue. Once you confirm that your laptop DVD drive is completely damaged. When we try to play a DVD the Apple player opens and then nothing loads. Solution 2: repair DVD drive or purchase a new one. Not all DVD won't play on Mac issues are related to the broken superdrive. With a USB flash drive one sees right away if the Mac recognized the drive or not Possible Solutions to DVD Player Not Playing on Mac Solution 1: clean the DVD drive. The flash drive will usually show up then. When I insert a USB flash drive, the drive occasionally doesn't show up on the desktop. I find that the USB ports on the various Macs I had are a bit "flaky" (for want of a better word.) The other is to reinsert the USB cable at the iMac end. IMac has already been rebooted - this is one thing I would have tried. The drive used to work with the iMac but then suddenly stopped working.Īnd the drive has shown not to be defective.
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