I need help with my mac DVD player

[eks11]

I was playing around on my computer last night and I accidentally deleted my DVD player for my Mac OS X 10.4.11 laptop. I am so frustrated. I called apple and they told me that I needed my installation cd's. Unfortunately, I can't find them. The CD's cost $16 each. I'm a student, so I would rather not buy CD's for one application. Can anyone help me? I'll take any help that I can get.

Thanks

 

[circuitrider]

eks11,

Being a student the easiest thing you could do is head off to the mac computing lab on campus and borrow a disk to boot from, if you have a laptop bring it, the lab tech may offer to help you.


just a thought ...go into terminal & type "diskutil list" (without quotes) see if /dev/disk shows your dvd drive.... like other unix os's you may be able to remount it, check the syntax in the man pages, (not sure -i haven't tried it on mac) you will need a disk if you accidentally deleted the extensions. good luck

 

[eks11]

I went into my terminal and did what you said...this is what came up:

sorry, I don't know what to do next. My dvd player is called "dvd player"

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

Download VLC media player. It's free and it does a great job of playing DVDs.

 

[eks11]

Thanks!!!