On Aug 18, 10:05 am, Clark Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Aug 17, 2011, at 6:02 PM, Jess wrote:
>

>
> The Lombard had an optional on board MPEG-2 (DVD) decoder.  I don't know off 
> hand how to check for that.  If you don't have it the only way to watch a DVD 
> is with a software decoder and the Lombard is way to slow to support that.  I 
> don't know about the hardware decoder being supported in OS X.  I know some 
> are and some aren't but I don't know whether the Lombard's is or not.
>
The 400mhz Lombard came from Apple with the DVD decoder on the logic
board - it's on the bottom side, approximately under the PC Card slot.
The 333mhz required a PC Card to play DVD content. Neither will work
in OS X.
To the OP, try booting into OS9 and see if your DVD will play. That
would help to determine if it's a drive or not. I think if you see the
contents and VLC recognizes that it's video then it's probably not the
drive.


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JeffH

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