----- Original Message ----- From: "Regis Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "G-List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 10:37 PM Subject: Re: Apple DVD Player
> Ricard, > > > Thats great news...I have a beige 300 Tower with 10.2.2 and followed your > instructions but can't seem to get it to work. > Once i found the DVD Player.app and copied it over to my hard disk, i get > the error: > > (DVD Player encountered a serious error: The current machine or system is > not supported: error:-70013) > > I'm wondering which DVD player you have installed in your computer? I have > the generic Mashite SR-8582. I have the Rage Pro on board video of the > latter macs but no Video card (like your ATI 7000) what do you think might > be the issue? > > Regis > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Starr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "G-List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 6:21 PM > Subject: Re: Apple DVD Player > > > > I solved my DVD Player problem, finally. > > > > Here's what I learned. 10.2 seems to require DVD Player 3.2 which only > comes on > > the install disks, not on the website. It is not installed on Beige > machines > > and maybe some others that are "unsupported." > > > > I dug around the 10.2 install disk 1 and finally found the player. It is > in > > system/installation/packages/essentials.pkg. > > > > You won't see the sytems directory in the install disk window since it has > no > > icon. Click the button in the upper right corner of the window to display > the > > tool bar and select the triview or list option. There she'll be. > > > > To extract it I dragged essentails.pkg onto my desktop which copies it > from the > > cd to the hard drive (all 362 megs.) I renamed it essentials. Removing > the pkg > > extension allows it to behave like a regular directory so you can > manipulate the > > files inside. I guess holding the option key and clicking on the package, > then > > selecting Show Contents works as well. > > > > Double click on the zip archive to get Stuffit to expand it. Now you have > an > > 'archive' that needs to be opened. I used a freeware utillity called > OpenUp. > > The contents of the archive are made available when this is done and DVD > Player > > 3.2 is in there. > > > > The very good news is that it works perfectly on my Beige machine (G4 466 > and > > Radeon 7000) and looks wonderful. No additional mods are required. That > is > > Player 3.2 doesn't check your machine id. > > > > It took hours to solve this but I began to get some sense of how arcane > osX and > > Unix can be. It's been an education. > > > > Hope this helps someone. > > > > Rich > > > > -- > > G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | > > -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | > > > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > > > G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> > > --> 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-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com > > > > > -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> 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-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
