DVD Player encountered a system error, -69889

Today I was watching “The Wire” season 3 while getting some work done.  By mistake I ended up hitting the “title” button and was greeted with the following error message.

 ”DVD Player encountered a system error, -69889″      

After doing some google’ing and some Apple - Support - Discussions searches this thread was all I could find regarding that error.Personally I don’t think it’s an issue with my DVD drive. VLC was able to play my DVD fine. Moreover I tried rebooting and deleting the file com.apple.DVDPlayer.plist in ~/Library/Preferences.  My disk was also clean.Anybody else have any ideas?  I’ll post a screen shot when I get a chance of the error and if I find a solution I’ll post it also. 

UPDATE: Today I came home and installed some software and ended up doing another reboot thus clearing up this issue.  Hopefully this issue was just a one shot deal but I would consider this a resolved issue. 

6 Responses to “DVD Player encountered a system error, -69889”


  1. 1 vanbergs

    I hope you are able to find a solution and can finish The Wire :’(

  2. 2 hola

    You should watch Charmed :-[

  3. 3 Jeff

    My guess is that you didn’t run a permission repair after a system update that carried over into dvd player cache corruption.

  4. 4 Vanberge

    I am sorry your mac sucks vanlandw. :-(
    on a better note, you have a modded Xbox. I really need to have fulljeff help me do mine. It’s just sat here since i got a 360.

  5. 5 Alex

    I found that starting the disk at the beginning (rather than where last played) fixed this problem for me which I am sure is a fluke- The Wire Season 1 disc 1… good luck.

  6. 6 rizwan

    hey i just brought the new apple mac pro and it comes up with the same error what do i do

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