On Mar 4, 2004, at 2:19 PM, David Pekarsky wrote:
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,
Dave
It looks like many B&W's did go out with CD-ROMs (like mine). The original Rage 128 card does not decode DVDs on it's own. However, the Rage 128 card does have a set of pins that a decoder card would connect to. Perhaps eBay or the Swap List could provide some help in locating the decoder add-on. I read somewhere that there might be some type of playback problems with Apple DVD Player 3 on B&Ws. I'm sorry, but I can't remember what exactly right now.
OS X 10.3's Apple DVD Player 4.0 has a software decoder built-in (as you know) and works fine on my B&W/300 Rev. 1 (Now @ 350). My DVD-ROM came from a Beige G3/333. I have upgraded the video card to a Radeon 7000 Mac Edition which has a hardware decoder onboard which is good for playing DVDs while booted into OS 9. The card also adds DVI and S-Video ports and has 32 megs of VRAM. It retails for around $130 at the stores near me, it could be lower elsewhere. Playback works just fine.
Jason Molin
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