DVD Player initialization error: DVD won't play, (-70017)

I am trying to play a DVD with music and no video on my Mac Mini and I'm getting this message:
There was an initialization error.
A valid video device could not be found for playback (-70017)
The DVD shows up on the desktop just fine, but DVD Player won't start up because of this error. The Mac Mini plays CDs just fine and it has played this DVD many times before just fine.
What's going on? Thank you for your help.

I'm not sure if you've found your answer. I had the same problem for quite a while on my Mac mini and couldn't find any answers on the Internet. But I did finally stumble on the answer in an Apple developer page somewhere which listed all of the possible Apple DVD Player return codes. -70017 is an error which suggests the DVD Player couldn't find a suitable display on which to send the picture output. In my case, I had removed my television from the computer and had been using VNC to remotely connect. Anytime I attempted to put a DVD in the drive, I'd get the error. The error is produced because I do not have a monitor or display attached to the computer. I hope this helps!

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