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I just bought an external DVD drive (Targus) so that I could play DVDs from any region on my MacBook. With one minor exception (which I'll describe below), I have not been able to play any DVDs on this new drive, using either VLC, or anything else. Worst of all, VLC does not even recognize the new external drive as a DVD drive; i.e.

It does not list it among the options under 'Device name' in the menu that comes with the 'File > Open disk' dialogue. The only option I see in this dialogue is one that has been there all along, namely the file /dev/rdisk1, corresponding, I suppose, to the internal DVD drive.

Is there any way to get VLC to recognize the external DVD drive as such (and not simply as another volume)? Alternatively, how should I specify the new drive in the main field of the 'File > Open disk' dialogue? The one exception I alluded to earlier is that I have managed to get the new drive + VLC to play individual VOB files from this *one* DVD. This is not great, but at least it tells me that the external drive can, in principle, work with my laptop. (BTW, this lone DVD I was able to play (sort of) is an academic production, not intended for the mass market, so I figure it doesn't have very aggressive intellectual-property protection. Aiseesoft video converter for mac serial key.

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But otherwise it is a 'regular DVD', with menus, subtitles, etc.) TIA! Click to expand.It doesn't show at all, perhaps because this drive only plays. Under USB, I find this: USB Mass Storage Device: Capacity: 5.59 GB Removable Media: Yes Detachable Drive: Yes BSD Name: disk1 Version: 0.33 Bus Power (mA): 500 Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec Manufacturer: Genesyslogic OS9 Drivers: No Product ID: 0x0701 S.M.A.R.T. Status: Not Supported Vendor ID: 0x05e3.which I *think* refers to the external DVD drive, but I'm not entirely sure, since this info does not disappear from the System Profiler report after I disconnect the drive from the laptop's USB port. Click to expand.Originally it didn't, since I'd disabled that behavior (I've been using VLC instead).

But when I manually started DVD Player with a DVD inserted into the new drive, the first thing DVD Player did was to ask me to specify a region. This, of course, defeats the original rational for getting this external drive in the first place, but I went ahead and chose Region 1, which, in retrospect was a stupid mistake on my part; I should have chosen Region 2 (since my internal drive is already region 1). Now DVD Player can play Region 1 DVDs on the new external drive, but puzzlingly enough it seems to play Region 2 DVDs as well! It seems to recognize that these Region 2 DVDs were played before (using the internal drive), and lets them through.