Cause 2: DVD drive is broken or damaged 'Yesterday, I put a DVD on my laptop DVD drive and found Mac DVD player not working. I know for sure that is not caused by DVD, because I played it on my other DVD players and it plays normally. Apple Mac OS X Mojave 10.14 Apple OSX Install Recovery DVD Disk Update Upgrade Mac OS X Mojave 10.14 Bootable DVD Installer IMPORTANT: These DVDs are NOT produced by Apple. Apple never produced DVD installers for any of their OS software after 10.6 Snow Leopard. E DVD Player (formerly Apple DVD Player) is the default DVD player in macOS. It supports all the standard DVD features such as multiple audio, video & subtitle tracks as well as Dolby Digital 5.1 passthrough, DVD access URLs and closed captions. In some instances, users can choose which VOB file to open.

The macOS Mojave installer software is just over 6GB, so you need a USB external drive that can hold that much data. The drive can be a thumb drive, hard drive, or SSD. If you want to use a thumb. Alternatively, Erase the Startup Drive and Reinstall macOS Mojave in Recovery Mode: On macOS Utilities window, select Disk Utility. Select the startup drive and click the Erase button. Provide the details and then click Erase. Reinstall macOS Mojave in recovery mode after selecting the erased startup drive as above.

Cause 3: DVD is scratched or dirty

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'My favorite DVDs are scratched unexpectedly and the situation of DVD player MacBook Pro not working occurs when I put DVDs into DVD drive. How Can get a very dirty DVD to play on my DVD player?'

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Solution: Generally speaking, the default DVD player is very sensitive to the quality of DVD disc. If your DVD is scratched or dirty, your Mac DVD player may accept the disc (Mac DVD player skipping over damaged area) but there might be no sound coming from DVD player or the image quality on screen may be blurry; if your DVD is seriously scratched, the disc will directly become unusable.

As for small scratches on the surface of your DVDs, clean, polish and wax them to repair damaged DVD; for deep scratches on DVD, utilize super glue, a pin or toothpick to the damaged area to fix the badly scratched DVD disc. If nothing good happens, please resort to other free Mac DVD players like VLC, 5KPlayer and more, which can automatically skip over the damaged area when reading DVD internal data.

As is known to all, most of deep scratches may be not repairable. Thus, you have to buy a new one or ask the publishers to send you a new copy in exchange for the damaged copy. Under this circumstance, you may lament, 'why I haven't made a digital copy for my favorite DVD?' If so, everything becomes much simpler. Now, it's not too late. Free download MacX DVD Ripper Pro and you can use it to repair damaged DVD disc and copy DVD computer, USB hard drive, ISO image, single MPEG-2 file, high quality MKV file, MP4 (HEVC), MP4 (H264), MOV, AVI, WMV, VOB, as well as iPhone 11, iPhone XS/XR, iPhone X, iPhone 8, iPads, Android, Microsoft device, PS4, etc.