Instructions

Step 5.
Your Mac computer should recognize this device and your disc within one minute, then use media player, burning, or ripping
software to read, burn, rip your CDs and DVDs.
* If your Mac computer cannot recognize this deivce and your disc, please try the follow methods:
— Method 1: Check whether the drive is properly plugged in.
— Method 2: Refer to
step 3, correct use of data cable and power cable (if available)
— Method 3: Your Mac may not recognize this device unless there is a CD’s or DVD’s in the player, so please make sure the
disc is properly inserted into the CD/DVD drive.
— Method 4: Check your preferences
1. Click the
Finder icon in the Dock, then choose Finder.
2. From the Finder menu, click Finder and choose the Preferences menu item.
3. Choose Preferences > under the General section, make sure you have set it to show the external disks and DVDs.
— Method 5: The next step is to try plugging the drive into another Mac or PC. If it also fails to mount there you will know
that there is a problem with the drive while if it does mount then the problem is with your Mac. If you have no other PC or Mac,
please ignore this method and try the next..
— Method 6: Open DVD Player using Rosetta
There are many users experiencing the external DVD player not showing up errors on macOS Monterey & Apple Silicon M1
Mac. If you can’t open your external DVD drive on Mac, follow the steps below:
1. If DVD Player is running, choose the window, and type ⌘ +Q
2. On Finder, type Shift+⌘ +G
3. Then type
/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/ and click Go
4. Next, choose
DVD Player (select it, do not start the app) and then type ⌘ +I
5. Check Open using Rosetta and type ⌘ +W
6. Add
DVD Player to Dock by drag-and-drop (remove prev if already in the Dock)
7. Open DVD Player (from the Dock only!)
8. Insert a DVD in a disc drive, and play a DVD