Re: DVD in OS X on a Lombard (How-To)

[Adam Thayer]

On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 02:22 AM, Tom Peterson wrote:



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Subject: Re: DVD in OS X on a Lombard (How-To)
"Hmm, I also forgot to mention that the instructions should also work 
on

G4 upgraded Wallstreet machines."

I have followed your lead and have a wallstreet II with a G4 Blue Chip
500 mhz installed, along with OSX 10.2.6. I have also hacked the
Plist.Info per Accelerate Your Mac to add Device ID 0x4c501002 to the
line of hardware identifiers. With and Without the Zoom card in the
wallstreet the DVD player will launch, the screen will darken for a
count of 2, then return with message that the DVD player has
unexpectedly quit. This hardware, the dvd drive and the pc card work
under OS 9.2.2. any thoughts? Thanks for the inspiration. I am trying 
to
remember where the Dmessage log is under OSX.
Hmm, well, the G4 hack should remove the need to use the DVD card, 
since the Altivec decoder uses the CPU for DVD decoding. For debug 
messages from apps (that spew to a console)... you can watch it using 
/Applications/Utilities/Console.app

Or you can look in ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/DVD Player.crash.log
(~ is your home directory)
The reason why Lombard/Wallstreet machines don't work under OS X while 
they did under OS 9 is that they tied the DVD decoder bundles to the 
graphics card drivers. The RageProLT couldn't do DVD, and apparently 
Apple never finished the OpenGL drivers for the RageProLT either.

See what those two sources give you in the way of information. (You can 
send me a personal e-mail with the crash log attached, that would help 
a lot)

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