As far as I know, Apple has ALWAYS from Day One used software decoding for DVDs, not hardware.
Even if there is such a thing as a PCMCIA video decoder card, I can't imagine there would be Mac drivers for it.
A better (cheap) solution, if you have a desktop machine with the capacity, is to convert your DVDs to QuickTime movies, which you could then copy to your PowerBook G3. By the time you buy a DVD burner, a FireWire enclosure for the drive, a FireWire PCMCIA card, and (perhaps) Toast, you're halfway to a used iBook G3 with a combo drive...
They started with hardware decoding and only used software decoding later on when the processor had enough zip to do it. It's still mostly hardware, at least to some extent, to keep the processor available for other things. In most cases the hardware is in the video function already.
The Wallstreet and Lombard definitely use a PCMCIA video decoder. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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