Hi Bruce,
Thanx for your input.
I wrote:
> Do I need a faster CPU, maybe even a G4? I've read on
the
> G-list before that even a beige 233 Mhz DT should be
able
> to play DVDs well if there is a hardware-decoder
present.
> I thought the Radeon card has a good DVD-decoder.
Then you wrote:
I thought so too. I just watched Monsters Inc yesterday
on my stsem,=20
while ripping CD's into iTunes, and saw no such
degradation. While
mine=20= is a G4-450, a G3-300 should surely be able to
do this. Are you
using=20 Apple's DVD player app?
I don't know what you're missing.
To which I reply:
Yes, I installed the Apple DVD-Player from the original
Panther Installer discs using Pacifist. When I tried to
update the Player with the DVD-Player Update from Apple
it no longer worked. So I went back to the original
DVD-Player from the OSX 10.3 installer.
It works, but barely. It's so choppy that watching a film
with some action or panning scenes is not enjoyable at
all.
I'll have to boot into OS9 for watching DVDs then. The
hacked Apple DVD-Player ver. 2.7 works flawlessly but I'd
like to stay in OSX ...
Maybe I'll try a faster CPU. Does the Apple DVD-Player
for OSX benefit from the AltiVec-engine so a G4 would
make sense?
TIA, J�rg.
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