Mojave (DVDPlayer) no longer plays Video_TS files on local disk?

If the VOB files are from a disk image of a video DVD the DVD Player, which is 64 bit, will play video DVDs when the disk image is mounted. It's designed for playing video DVDs, not the component files.

You have the solution. Use VLC. Or are you really going to let a simple dislike of its interface prevent you from viewing your videos?

Yes, I know you stated that. And as I noted, you already have a solution.

Apple, and virtually every company out there seems to believe optical disks are already dead. Apple dropped DVD Studio Pro years ago and has never offered a replacement. Adobe dropped Encore all the way back at CS6. You can still download it through their CC subscription, but it hasn't received an update of any kind since CS6.

If you're going strictly by sales numbers, yes, optical disk sales (DVD and Blu-ray) are way down from 5 - 10 years ago. Despite being anything but dead, the major software developers seem to think it is and are doing little to nothing towards its continued support.

Unless you have a DVD player/burner/Superdrive, the CD/DVD option will no longer show. My MBP with a Superdrive has it in System Preferences, my MBA without a Superdrive does not. Apple gave up on media some time ago when they decided that everyone should only use a simplified iMovie app, put together quick iPhone movies/selfies and share them online. Trying to find an option to export with best/decent settings (HD, lossless, etc is not available in the latest iMovie versions) is impossible. That is why I maintain my older MBP which can boot into long forgotten OS versions in order to use an old iMovie HD, iDVD, etc., export it with advanced settings and burn it.

I'm somewhat confused. After downloading Mojave 10.14.2 I can no longer play/watch my new purchased DVD's or music CD's.

The external superdrive and film title come up on my desk top but will not play. After looking on the forum I found and moved the DVD player to the applications fold and placed it in the dock. Still no joy. I then took further advice and download the VLC software. Even that will not play my films. It will open the video- TS files off the DVD but will not play instead I get messages on screen saying can't complete because film is copyright protected. Either, after having mac's for twenty odd years they are getting beyond my knowledge and ability or, my late 2015 iMac is now incapable of playing DVD's/CD's. I'd be most grateful of any advice, good or bad.

I'm not sure why VLC won't play your DVDs or music disks. I've used VLC for years and have it on both High Sierra and Mojave. It works with DVDs, Video_TS folders, and Blu-ray disks / BDMV folders (Blu-ray is still kind of in the works with VLC).

I haven't tried music CDs with VLC, but they're easy to play through iTunes.

Mojave may not be showing the mounted CDs simply because of a setting. From the desktop, choose Finder > Preferences. Make sure the check box to show CDs, DVDs, and iPods is on.

In the System Preferences under CDs & DVDs, have this setting for Open iTunes on (it may be set to Ignore).

Again thank you for your guidance. Yes I had the correct box's ticked in 'Finder Preferences' but I don't have anything in the System Preferences under CDs & DVD's since installing Mojave which seems rather odd. Tomorrow I'll get my laptop out and see if it is in the System Preference fold on that which is running High Sierra. I'm off to bed now. Again thank you so much for your time and support.

Kurt Lang, many thanks for all your time. I think for now I'll just have to rely on my old laptop to watch moves. Never know with Apple they may bring out a patch to sort this some day, but I won't hold my breath.

Sorry. My fault. I was looking in High Sierra. I'll have to check in Mojave tomorrow, but I believe Old Toad is correct. Apple doesn't even have a choice for what to do with optical media in Mojave.

Many thanks.

Thank you for your reply. It seems like there is a box somewhere that needs to be ticked. With regards to CD's, when I place a music CD in my external optical superdrive nothing shows on the desktop. I've opened iTunes and still my music CD doesn't show up anywhere or play. I also have a mac pro laptop which is still running OS High Sierra and, have no problem playing or watching films and CD's on that using the same external superdrive. The DVD player on the iMac is updated to 64 bit unlike the on on the laptop which is still 32 bit. I've even carried out a reload of Mojave incase something didn't install correctly. Everything else works great, no problems with anything other than playing films and DVD's. I nearly forgot, I've tried putting in a blank CD and it just tells me it isn't formatted and my computer can't read or format it. I've used loads of blank CD's on the iMac before the upgrade to store data without any problems. Again, many thanks any thoughts you might have will be gratefully received.