On Jan 16, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Michael Winter wrote: > 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
Can a MacBook Air play a DVD (I suppose how it was ripped matters) that's been ripped and sitting on a remote DISK ?
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