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I just posted this to another thread, and then realized that thread was marked "Answered." So I'm starting this new one.
My problem began after I upgraded to 10.4.8 (via Software Update) this past weekend. For some reason, DVD Player will not work with DVDs on my LaCie external DVD drive.
When I insert a DVD, DVD Player opens (as per my CDs & DVDs system preferences), and then I get:
"There was an initialization error. A valid DVD drive could not be found (-70012)"
And when I click "OK," DVD Player closes. The volume does mount, however, and the drive shows up in System Profiler fine. The problem is with DVD Player. If I try to open DVD Player with the disk already in, I get the same error (and again it closes after "OK"). So I can't open a VIDEO_TS folder anywhere else either. DVD Player just won't open completely.
It sorta seems like the OS has reverted back to its behavior in 10.3, when DVD Player wouldn't even install unless you had an internal Apple DVD drive
(see, from 2004: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42727 ). At the time, the only way to watch DVDs on an external drive was with an app like VLC (which still works). But VLC runs jerky on my older Mac, and the DVD Player interface is much better.
That changed when 10.4 began supporting external drives for DVD Player, and it worked fine for me just a few days ago in 10.4.7. But now with 10.4.8 it seems like it won't play nice with external drives anymore. I repaired disk permissions after installing the upgrade. And I checked with LaCie & I have the latest firmware in the drive). Anyone know what's going on?
I have a G4 533DP, running 10.4.8, and the LaCie is a 16x DVD+-R (Porsche Design), containing a _NEC DVD_RW ND-3540A device.
Thanks for any help available.

Well, not "solved," but I was mis-remembering part of the problem: 10.4 did not correct the inability of DVD Player to recognize external drives -- I forgot that there was a software patch (a terminal script, I think) which allowed them to be recognized. Sorry for the trouble.

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