>> Thanks, Tim. Does anyone have any experience with setting up a DVD-ROM >> on their PCI mac? I am wondering if I put a firewire card in, and then >> add a firewire DVD drive, will I be able to watch movies, or will I >> still need the onboard MPEG decoding? > > Yes, you will need some form of onboard decoding, software or hardware. > I believe that recent ATI video cards (some? most? all?) have the necessaries to play DVD; I've read before that since ATI was Apple's defacto standard for video that they were the only ones privy to the necessary info to allow DVD playback on Apples. That was perhaps a couple of years ago when I read that, so the story may have changed if you're talking about newer G4s.
Insofar as PCI Macs, I believe that the ATI cards are your best, if not only, hope for DVD playback. I just received a new ATI 7000 card today for my 9500, and it seems to me that somewhere on the control panel it said something about DVD. However, I don't have a DVD drive so I didn't pay any attention to it. BTW, the specs say that it requires OS 9 or X, and I haven't been able to get it to work sucessfully for me with 8.6 so, damnit, it looks like I have no choice but to upgrade the OS soon (my old video cards don't work well with the G4). This Sonnet G4 upgrade is getting more and more complicated for me all the time. ---Alex Black _____________________________________ God Bless America and the brave men and women who defend her -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
