>How do you get a DVD to play movies in a Beige G3. I >have a 16mb Rage PCI card pulled from a Blue & White. >I believe you need some kind of decoder card, >although, I have all my PCI slots filled.
Easy way is to get a Radeon Mac edition or Radeon 7000 and replace the Rage with it. The Radeons have the DVD decoding on the card. Second option is to try and find the RARE (read expensive) DVD decoder that Apple had as an option on the AV card in your beige. This does not use a pci slot. Third option is to find the rare Wired4DVD card, but this uses a pci slot. The Radeon option works fine for me, both in 9 and X. I am currently using the pci extreme hack to enable quartz extreme on my beige (G4 533, 10.2.8, Radeon 7000, Toshiba 8x8x8x24 DVD/CDRW combo drive) and DVD playback is not as good as without the hack, but we are talking dropping a few frames per minute, so I can live with it. You may need to hack Apple's DVD player depending on the DVD Rom you have. Or you can use one of the free players out there if you are using OSX- VideoLan/VLC player or mPlayer. HTH and sorry about the bad news on the Rage card, Len -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.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/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
