1. Prepare A Drive If Your Mac Doesn't Have One
The 13-inch non-Retina MacBook Pro is the last Mac with a built-in CD/DVD drive. If your Mac computer has no internal optical drive, use an external optical drive such as Apple USB SuperDrive priced at $79. Check our list of best external DVD/CD drive for Mac.
Mojave Updates DVD App to 64-Bit, Allows for Playing on Macs Friday, June 15th, 2018 Author: MacSales.com Newsfeed Update: macOS Mojave will officially be the last release to support 32-bit apps As we warned you in March, 32-bit apps will lose full support in macOS 10.14 Mojave when it’s released in September. Among the 32-bit apps that are included in macOS is DVD Player. Watch DVD movies on your Mac. Play DVDs using your built-in DVD drive or an external DVD drive, such as a SuperDrive. Preview your own movies. You can use DVD Player to watch movies you created with another app, like Final Cut Pro. How to preview your own movies. To browse the DVD Player User Guide, click Table of Contents at the top of the.
Tips: Mac has a Remote Disc feature, making it possible to share discs from the drive of another Mac, or from a Windows computer with DVD sharing setup installed. Here's the guide to sharing discs from another computer and play DVDs on macOS Mojave - Big Sur based MacBook Air/Pro/iMac without DVD drives.
Another way to go is to make your DVDs digital. You need a program to rip DVDs to MP4, MOV, M4V, hard drive, USB drive etc. on Mac, and a DVD drive is also needed for the job. Once it's done, you can view DVDs on Mojave - Big Sur anytime and anywhere without a DVD drive.
2. Insert a DVD
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Insert the DVD disc you want to play into the internal drive or optical drive connected to Mac. If you are using Apple USB SuperDrive, according to Apple support, it only accepts 120-mm round DVD discs.
3. Now, you get your DVD to play on Mojave - Big Sur
The 64-bit DVD player for macOS Mojave - Big Sur will recognize the disc quickly and start playing the disc. To make the disc play automatically when the app opens, go to DVD Player > Preferences > Player and choose Start Playing disc next to When DVD Player opens.
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* Some DVDs have several chapters, you can select the one you'd like to watch. To do so, click Go > Chapter and pick the chapter from the menu to view.
* About DVD region code - Most of the DVDs sold on Amazon.com are encoded for Region 1 or Region A. to play a region-locked DVD on macOS Mojave - Big Sur, the region code should be the same as that of the DVD drive. After inserting the DVD disc, in DVD Player, click File > Get Disc Info > Regions, and you'll see the DVD region. If you are asked to change the DVD region, select a region that matches the DVD region. Note that you can only set the region code for DVD drive five times. So some users choose to remove the region code from DVDs using DVD decrypter software.
* DVD Player app won't recognize a disc. Some users said the DVD they insert kept getting ejected. Why won't the Mac read a DVD? It may be a sign of a dusty DVD drive, try cleaning the lens of the drive. If the problem still exists, try another quick fix - a PRAM reset.
* DVD won't eject on Mojave - Big Sur.' I tried to eject the disc but it is locked, and I can't unlock it. What to do now?' Make sure you are using the right way to eject a DVD from the desktop or from a Finder window.
For users who have issues that DVD won't play on macOS Mojave - Big Sur, for example, the 64-bit DVD player quits unexpectedly, the disc is not available, DVD playing freezes, please read our complete solutions to DVD not playing on Mac.
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What You Can't Play using DVD Player on macOS Mojave - Big Sur
*The 64-bit DVD Player app doesn't play encrypted video folders and ISO images from DVD discs.
* Blu-ray discs and content burned onto some DVD-RW discs are not accepted either.
* The DVD Player app on macOS Mojave - Big Sur is prevented from mirroring because of copyright.