Using a FireWire DVD drive with DVD Player in 10.2

Dec 17, '02 07:46:26AM

Contributed by: bedouin

Although there was an older solution on xlr8yourmac for using an external FireWire DVD drive in OS X, it no longer works in 10.2. In fact, 10.2 doesn't even install the Apple DVD Player if you have an external FireWire DVD drive. This solution was originally found on Macslash, but didn't work entirely, and could have been made a little clearer. No longer must external DVD drive users be stuck with VideoLAN Client :)

For clarification, I did this on a Powermac G4 with a generic IDE DVD drive put into a Firewire enclosure.

  1. Download Pacifist. Install DVD Player from Mac OS X Install Disc 1 (Mac OS X Install Disc 1 -> System -> Installation -> Packages -> Essentials.pkg).

  2. Using HexEdit, look for offset 0F5210 and change it from "40 82" to "48 00" and offset 0F78F4 from "40 82" to "48 00".
After doing the above steps my external drive worked beautifully with Apple's DVD player.

[Editor's note: I can't test this one myself...]

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