On Mar 5, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Wm. Arnold wrote:
Here are answers to your questions about my Powerbook
that doesn't display image of CD on screen.
Might it be necessary to install a driver for DVD drive?
John:
I put a CD in DVD drive several times, no display although
I can hear it being accessed.
The Operating System was installed using my original Tiger disks.
These disks showed on screen during this install
but do not now.
Dan:
The ATA buss shows : DVD-Rom DRN-8080B.
No Errors in Console or System Logs.
William,
You don't seem to understand the problem. The Pismo's video card has a
hardware DVD CSS (Content Scrambling System) which is only supported
in OS 9. There is no support for commercial movie DVD's under OS X, so
no commercial DVD that uses CSS will be recognized in OS X. There is a
work-around, which is to use an application such as VLC that
descrambles using software. The problem is that software descrambling
taxes the CPU and most G3's are incapable of playing the resulting
video smoothly. If you must play the DVD, the best solution is to boot
OS 9.
Also, you reverse-hijacked your own thread by starting a new thread
with the same topic. Your original thread was "Need Help with
Powerbook". Under Google's threading system, which tracks replies
independent of Subject line, you could have changed the Subject to
"Answers to questions about 'Help with Powerbook'" and the correct
thread would have been maintained. Instead, you started a completely
new thread, which lost the original thread. In the future, if the
original thread topic is still valid, don't start a new thread, just
change the Subject line.
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