I just hooked up an external DVD drive to my iMac for the first time, and made the discovery that OSX's built-in DVD player software is apparently not installed. How do I install it?

Apple's DVD Player will only work with internal DVD drives and will give an error -70012 if you open it with only an external DVD drive attached. Topher Kessler ...

In an earlier tutorial, we explained how to clone the Tiger install DVD to a partition on an external FireWire disk. This is a good idea because the DVD is optical media, and optical media can have ...

DVD drives might be a vanishing species, but they are not yet completely extinct. New desktop PCs often include a DVD drive, as do older PCs that have been upgraded to Windows 10. And external USB DVD ...