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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