On Jan 11, 2010, at 9:44 PM, Clark Martin wrote:

> John Carmonne wrote:
>> Hi All
>> I have a Wallstreet 300 512 10.4.11 XPostFacto enabled. Every thing
>> works super good on the machine. The only thing I'm having trouble
>> with is playing DVDs. I have a couple of external drives connected
>> via FW and USB these drives will boot the machine with DVD installers
>> and play CDs on iTunes but I get an error that says "a valid DVD
>> drive cannot be found [-70012]"  when I try to play a movie. Is there
>> a patch or something to fix this?
> 
> Are you attempting to play them using DVD Player?  It won't work on the 
> Wallstreet.  Software decoding isn't supported as it's too slow and the  PC 
> Card hardware encoder is not supported.  I'm not sure but I don't think DVD 
> Player will work with an external drive.
> 
I use DVD Player with externals on all my other machines G4 TiBook 400, G3 iMac 
600, G5 Pm, G4 MDD. The PC card I'm using for the external is a FW, all other 
functions are normal. I'll try VLC next I think I saw it somewhere around here. 
The speed I know will be slow I just want to see if I can do all this on my 
Wallstreet, It's so far so far been a fun project with a lot of help from list 
members:-)

> You can try using VLC, I understand it will do software decoding but it's 
> probably not going to be close to fast enough.
> 
> -- 
> Clark Martin
> Redwood City, CA, USA
> Macintosh / Internet Consulting

John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA



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