17 March 2009

Use DVDPlayer Without An Internal DVD Drive

In my past post, I talked about how Apple's DVD Player would not cooperate and let me get that sought after "Apple experience" - it just keeps on churning out that error message whenever I try to launch the app.

It's like asking a guy out and getting "No" for an answer. Miserable.

Well, the guy still refuses to notice me (I refuse to accept that it's due to my physical appearance - or lack thereof) but DVD Player finally succumbed to my insistence.

Here's how:


1) Download 0xED from the Apple website and then install it on your system.

2) In Finder, on the menubar, go to this directory:

/System/Library/Frameworks/DVDPlayback.framework/Versions/A

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3) Copy the file "DVDPlayback" to your Desktop, for example. Then make a backup again somewhere else.

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4) Open the "DVDPlayback" in 0xED.

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5) In 0xED, on the search field (marked by a Spotlight icon), type in the word "Internal".

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6) Hitting Enter will take you to the occurrences of this word in the file. Replace all 4 occurrences of "Internal" with the word "External". Be careful with replacing them but if you screw up, at least you've got that backup DVDPlayback file, right? ;)

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7) Save DVDPlayback and copy it back to its original location :

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/System/Library/Frameworks/DVDPlayback.framework/Versions/A

What it does basically is to tell your system to look for an external DVD drive from now and not an internal one. This is what 0xED, a hex editor, helps you to do by editing the DVDPlayback file for you without learning machine parlance.

DVD Player should now start and operate fine. Just be sure your USB external DVD drive is plugged in and you're good to go.

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5 comments:

Matt said...

is it possible to use a Remote Disk rather than External Disk?

Anonymous said...

Yes Matt, that's very much possible. Hard-NOS installation

AudacityDraci said...

" It's like asking a guy out and getting "No" for an answer. Miserable. "

Ouchie. My behalf always uses an Angry Bird mug flying towards my face in case I get to become deaf ever now and then.

Thanks for this post. Helped a lot.

LeMaurien19 said...

@AudacityDracci
Did you use this trick on Snow Leopard?
I couldn't get it to work on Snow...

P.S. I've never really asked a guy out ^_^

LeMaurien19 said...

@AudacityDracci
Did you use this trick on Snow Leopard?
I couldn't get it to work on Snow...

P.S. I've never really asked a guy out ^_^