On Jan 16, 2011, at 11:50 AM, LuKreme wrote:
On Jan 15, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote:
So, DVD Player requires an optical drive in a machine to run?
It always did, but I am surprised that it still does. I would have
thought it would work with a shared drive.
IIRC it has something to do with the way mpeg2 playback is licensed.
The "drive" is licensed, which is why Macs will play back DVDs. But to
play back an mpeg2 file on your hard drive, you need to purchase the
mpeg2 playback component or use something like VLC or other software
that gets around this limitation. So without the internal drive,
there's no license for mpeg2 playback. I don't know if purchasing the
mpeg2 playback component from Apple would fix that or not.
I'm not positive this is the problem, just connecting various "dots"
from the time the first b//w G3 came out and DVD player was initially
licensed, and the outrage when they went to "hardware playback" &
licensing. Has that all changed in the intervening years?
-Mike
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