The Wallstreet and Lombard DVD decoder card is designed to be used in the lower Cardbus slot, only. That slot can also accommodate a "zoom video" board, such as the iX3D "Road Rocket",
The Road Rocket is a Type III PCMCIA PC Card, not a zoomed video card. Another good example of a zoomed video card is the iRez CapSure. Lovely card, by the way... ;-)
but these cards depend upon specific extensions to the Cardbus standard which are implemented on certain PBs (Wallstreet and Lombard, in particular) and may not be present on other Cardbus PBs (2400, 3400, 3500, etcetera).
On the contrary, zoomed video cards have no relationship to CardBus (except co-existence, maybe). The PowerBooks that support zoomed video are the 3400, 2400, Kanga, through Pismo. Dunno about G4s.
ALL of them can use the Wallstreet/Lombard DVD decoder card (including the 2400c - see <http://www.liethen.com/filia-ul-copt/dvd/index.html>). However, demuxing the MPEG2 stream will choke anything but a G3. Certain extremely low bandwidth DVDs might work (maybe the kind you might pick up in a back alley?), but don't count on watching anything produced in Hollywood.
So, for the record, the DVD decoder card is a _ZOOMED_VIDEO_ card. Zoomed video cards are PCMCIA form factor, but they require zoomed video support. ZOOMED VIDEO IS _NOT_ CARDBUS. PowerBooks which support zoomed video include the 3400c, 2400c, and all G3 PowerBooks (Kanga included).
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