I can't burn or play DVD's from macbook pro

I'm trying to play a commercial DVD and the "DVD player" app crashes, and VLC won't play either. Also I cannot burn any DVDs via Toast either. I am running OS X 10.8.2 on a macbook pro. I am assuming my DVD drive has an issue, so is there a way I can reset its settings, or test it, etc. ?

Ok same thing goes then. It seems with this latest update something has been broken with the DVD player App on Some Mac computers.
Only option is to Wipe and Reinstall clean.
You can take it to an Apple Genius Bar and show them what the problem is they may have a fix. But first make sure you back up all your personal files as there fix may be to wipe the drive and reinstall OS X.

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