Apple DVD Player will not launch

I have a B/W G3 Tower/Desktop as well as a G3 PowerBook (black laptop). Both run OS 9.2.2, QT 5.0.2, and Apple DVD Player v1.2.
When I try to launch the DVD Player on the tower, I receive the following on a pop-up window:
"Apple DVD Player cannot open because it cannot find the required hardware. Try reinstalling Apple DVD Player. (204)"
The following pops up when I try to launch the DVD Player on the G3 PowerBook laptop:
"Apple DVD Player cannot open because the required hardware was not found. If you have another application open that uses sound or video, quit that application and open Apple DVD Player again. If you are using a PowerBook that requires a DVD-Video PC Card, make sure the PC card is properly installed in the appropriate slot. (21)"
Both used to work but for some reason have abruptly stopped. I'm going crazy trying to figure it out. Speech is turned off and I don't have any other video or DVD apps open.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave
Black and White G3 Tower/Desktop Mac OS 9.2.x

you may need to reinstall your operating system because it sounds like you dvd rom driver is damaged but there is a way around this to
go to google and search for a program called patch burn this application will reinstall a fress driver for your cd dvd rom drive but unknown if this will even work because if the file is currupted you may end up locking out the cd drive driver and your cd drive will stop working in os x and you will need to reinstall the operating system
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