--- You wrote: You need a decoder if you are running anything less than OS X. You will also need a PCI video card, if it doesn't have one, and some of the lower end PCI video cards do not support DVD movie playback so you will have to do some further research on that. Check at xlr8yourmac.com --- end of quote --- I'm not sure this is true. If it's a rev 3 motherboard and a rev C rom (they were sold together) and the drive is original, it would have hardware decoding on the wings card. There were three av wings cards. The second had a direct cable connection to the dvd drive, the third not. But both had hardware decoding. I'm not sure what software was required but it would not be a recent dvd player which decodes through software and requres a fairly fast processor and maybe a video board. Maybe not if it is a rev 3 motherboard.
I've come up with all this from reserch a couple of years ago in trying to get the DVD a/v wings card to work on a rev 1 mb. Forget it.
Also, forget trying to get qny of this to work in X. On a beige, you'd need a video card and a procssor upgrade to play DVDs. Maybe an original 300mhz g3 could do it. Mine is now 466 G4 with a Rqdeon 7000 aand it all works.
Hope this helps a little, anyway.
Rich
You could swap in a Rage 128 video card out of a B&W. I've seen them going for about $20. They make a nice upgrade for the Beige. There is a DVD decoder daughtercard for the Rage 128 which would allow hardware decoding under OS9. OSX will not need hardware decoding, but you will need to add as much RAM as you can, and a processor upgrade to at least a 300 or 350 would be in order. I watch DVD's on my B&W 350 with the original Rage 128 card (no daughterboard) with Apple's DVD Player under Panther. Works fairly well, except fast-forwarding is a bit jerky. (I tried VLC, but got a lot of frame-dropping.)
JR
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