On Fri, June 3, 2005 19:23, Brian said: > Is the vid card the only place for a decoder to go? If memory > serves, the decoder on my iMac (graphite 400 mHz DV SE) is directly > on the DVD drive. > I have an external CD writer lying around I intend to use for the > time being, but would eventually like to get up to at least a combo > drive.
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