Q: After installing Mavericks my dvd player quit working

I don't know if this will help, but my player quit before I installed Mavericks. How old is your computer? I couldn't even get the drive to accept my cd. So as a temporary measure I bought a VERY inexpensive USB external optical drive. It was okay, but I don't like external drives (as I have told APPLE feedback-not that anyone cares there) and then I ordered a new APPLE internal optical drive and had an independent person install it (because my computer is past the AppleCare policy) and I am very happy I did so.  The question for you is, is your superdrive just warn out or is it a fixible problem. If you do not have a warranty on your computer, it may not pay and it will cost a lot less to order the part and replace it.

This might help with your internal SuperDrive. If you haven't done so yet, try installing Apple's SuperDrive Firmware Update 3.0, which is on Apple's support site at http://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201953 to see if that resolves it. Although it's not specifically for that problem, the firmware update seems to be important for making external SuperDrives work in Yosemite, and it is one step I used to get my SuperDrive to work in a USB external case when plugged into my MacBook Pro.

Please let us know either way, whether the firmware update helps or not in your situation.

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For anyone with a malfunctioning EXTERNAL SuperDrive, read on ...

External SuperDrive DVD player fix - RESOLVED!

This solution worked for my Superdrive, which I had installed in a USB external case, so now it can play movies using Apples DVD Player App, but additional steps may be needed, as I outline below.  I had removed the SuperDrive from my mid-2009 Macbook Pro 15" 2.53 ghz to install a second hard drive with Other World Computing's "Data Doubler" adapter, and mounted the SuperDrive in an OWC Value Line SuperSlim external case.

I don't know if the first two steps below are necessary, but I had done them first, because others suggested them as fixes before I found the solution in the 3rd step.

1) I installed Apple's SuperDrive Firmware Update 3.0, which is on Apple's support site at http://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201953 (note: I had done this step before removing my SuperDrive, and when I first used the SuperDrive in the external case, it worked fine for data DVDs, but not for playing movies with Apples DVD Player.)

2) Then I applied a fix on this page, http://www.hardturm.ch/luz/2011/10/how-to-make-the-macbook-air-superdrive-work-w ith-any-mac/comment-page-12/#comment-106449, using Text Wrangler to edit the preference file at /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist by adding code mbasd=1 between the two string values. However, that still did not resolve the problem. I left the preference file with the code “mbasd=1″ included, as outlined on that site.

3) Then, I used the fix at http://macriot.com/mcrt/?p=2294 which requires modification of some code embedded into OS X’s DVDPlayback framework; essentially replacing the words “internal” with “external”

Now my external Superdrive plays movies using DVD Player. 

Many thanks Bpiper55,

I alms gave up, I tired everything but with no success ... now I followed your steps and it worked ... hope it lasts!

Cheers,

I had the same problem after a new installation of Mavericks on my iMac (late 2009).

After "repair disc permissinons" the dvd drive worked again just fine.

http://www.techisky.com/how-to/fix-dvd-player-not-working-on-mac.html