On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 12:40  PM, Christophe Collot wrote:

>> can old macs with a 50MHz bus support dvd playback/decoding (no
>> frame-skipping)? i know the beige w/66MHz bus can.
>> does anyone have a working dvd drive on their computer here? do you
>> have to hack anything to get it to work?
> I haven't personnaly test it but here what i found on the net and 
> papers
> - some say that you need a MPEG decompression card like the wired4DVD 
> one.
> - Another said that ATI128 and Radeon's can handle MPEG decompression.
> - Better associated with a G3 or G4 upgrade, depends on what Mac you 
> have.
> I personnaly want to upgrade my 6500 with that feature but still 
> waiting to
> found a "cheap" refurbished Magma chassis (imagine that here in France 
> it
> cost three times the price it is sold in USA, including VAT) :((((((((
>
> Chris
Hey Chris, I have a S900 Supermac, I have dabbled with DVD playback with
the Wired4DVD card I used it in 9.1 and playback was "good". I now run 
DVD
in 10.2.2 with a DVD player hack from an external Firewire enclosure 
(Liteon
DVD-ROM) and its "excellent" or 
the...http://os9forever.com/DVDPlayer.html for 9.1
Phil


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