[motoxpress]

I have a CD 1.66 Mini with a failed DVD drive. Since the Apple DVD player will not playback movies from and external player, I need to replace the internal one. Does anyone know if I need to have a specific model for the Apple DVD player app to work with it even if it is internal?

-mx

[SVass]

Will VLC work on an external drive??
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sam

[Person Man]

Originally Posted by motoxpress 

I have a CD 1.66 Mini with a failed DVD drive. Since the Apple DVD player will not playback movies from and external player, I need to replace the internal one. Does anyone know if I need to have a specific model for the Apple DVD player app to work with it even if it is internal?

-mx

Since when does Apple DVD Player not work with an external DVD drive?

I have an external DVD burner (Pioneer) hooked to my Mac Pro and I can play DVD movies on it in DVD Player just fine. It is connected via Firewire, though so that could be the reason...

[Big Mac]

Yeah, AFAIK DVD Player works just fine with third party drives, but there could be exceptions I suppose.

[Waragainstsleep]

DVD Player should make use of any internal drive you fit. The drivers for reading discs are utterly generic, a PowerMac G3 will read from pretty much any DVD drive you can hook to it (May not have enough power to decode a DVD movie). Its burning discs which is the trickier issue. If you want to be able to do that, check the drive compatibility database on XLR8yourmac.com.