Can I take it that a B+W normally did not come with the hardware built in to play a DVD on it? DVD player was not installed on mine (G3 350 oc --> 400 X.2.8) so I downloaded an older version of it, that being 3.1.1 which launches and quits. I then tried version 4, thinking it was panther only, and my suspicions were confirmed in that a it is panther only. I guess I would need version 3.2, but I do not even know if the B+W's standard video card (ATI Rage 128 w/ 16mb) can handle the DVD playback.
My B+W originally had regular cd-rom drive, however in souping it up, it now has a DVD +/- RW drive (sony DRU-510A) using the hacked drivers found on xlr8yourmac and it has worked fine including finder burn, disc burn, and it is bootable.
It appears that only B+Ws that shipped with a DVD drive came with DVD decoding hardware, and mine would not be one of thoseso are there any other recommendations? I know that software decoders exist but with only a 400mhz G3, they might not be very viable, I do however, have 1gig of memory thrown in the beast as well as a nice 120gig ATA, and a 10k SCSI that I use sometimes, so it kind of stinks that it might not work without this.
Thanks for any info,
Hi Dave,
I installed a DVD drive in my B&W then installed DVD player from my Panther disk and it now plays dvd's. I have a regular ATI card and no decoder hardware.
Hope this helps.
Sdjes
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