I suppose the thread is in the archives, but there was a brief exchange on this topic several months ago. I followed some of the advice (having experienced the same skipping DVD problems), and although I can't remember what it was, whatever I did, it worked. I can now watch a full DVD w/o it skipping and stalling. That's on a Ti 400, OS 9.1.
Don Michael Bryan Bell wrote: > >> I'm astonished to hear this--you're using OS X, right? > > > > No, I'm using OS 9. Experimented a bit with OSX, and don't like it > > that much, and have lots of legacy apps that I am not yet willing to > > part with, and am getting, as I mentioned, greatly improved stability > > just from the HARDWARE change, so that all-important low-level > > difference is less important than otherwise. > > I could hardly ever get DVD's to work correctly on those older rage128 > machines and OS9. I had a 500mhz G4 which would constantly hang on DVD's > that played fine in a console player or the PC next to it. > > DVD's on the majority of machines for OS9 as a large whole just kind of > sucked, but that is only my experiences over many machines. I'd many times > have to reboot 3-6 times just to get through a DVD. > > IMHO, the dvd player was the poster child app for how much nicer using OSX > could be over OS9. It was probably the first app that caused me to start > booting to OSX to perform a function instead of doing is in OS9. > > It pretty much held that crown until final cut pro 3, which is one hell of > an OSX app. > > -- > Michael Bryan Bell > > http://homepage.mac.com/michael_bell/ > -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
