iBook500 + CDRW/DVD/Firewire + Patched 2.7 plyr -Playback??
Im trying to get dvd playback on my ibook 500 with a cdrw/dvd-rom pulled from my BW before trade and placed in Sony iLink case. It burnes just fine just burnt a cd but I cant get it to play back dvd's...I assumed I could use the patched 2.7 player set-up but Im having no luck... any ideas? Thanks Ralph -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- 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-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: iBook500 + CDRW/DVD/Firewire + Patched 2.7 plyr -Playback??
On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 10:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im trying to get dvd playback on my ibook 500 with a cdrw/dvd-rom pulled from my BW before trade and placed in Sony iLink case. It burnes just fine just burnt a cd but I cant get it to play back dvd's...I assumed I could use the patched 2.7 player set-up but Im having no luck... any ideas? generically speaking, external DVD drives don't tend to work (well, if at all) with DVD-Video. the DVD decoder (part of the graphics card) is mated to specific DVD drives, as well. throughput from the drive doesn't tend to meet playback requirements. FireWire may be 400Mbps... but your drive won't deliver data anywhere near that fast, and the ata-firewire bridge in the iLink case will slow it down further. side note... even if you have a machine (such as your iBook) that has software decoding ... calling it software decoding is deceptive; iirc, it's actually software decrypting of the CSS, the MPEG decoding still happens on the graphics card. if you take a brand new G4 tower and replace the graphics card with a non-MPEG-decoding card, suddenly DVD playback won't work. in hardware schemes, both decrypting and decoding are handled by hardware. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- 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-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: iBook500 + CDRW/DVD/Firewire + Patched 2.7 plyr -Playback??
So I guess I need to look for an internal drive. Question though... if my ibook500 didnt come stock with a dvd drive is there still a good chance that it still has the decoder on the graphics card? and all I need to do is get a dvd-rom for it.? on 11/20/02 10:41 AM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: generically speaking, external DVD drives don't tend to work (well, if at all) with DVD-Video. the DVD decoder (part of the graphics card) is mated to specific DVD drives, as well. throughput from the drive doesn't tend to meet playback requirements. FireWire may be 400Mbps... but your drive won't deliver data anywhere near that fast, and the ata-firewire bridge in the iLink case will slow it down further. side note... even if you have a machine (such as your iBook) that has software decoding ... calling it software decoding is deceptive; iirc, it's actually software decrypting of the CSS, the MPEG decoding still happens on the graphics card. if you take a brand new G4 tower and replace the graphics card with a non-MPEG-decoding card, suddenly DVD playback won't work. in hardware schemes, both decrypting and decoding are handled by hardware. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- 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-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: iBook500 + CDRW/DVD/Firewire + Patched 2.7 plyr -Playback??
On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 10:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I guess I need to look for an internal drive. Question though... if my ibook500 didnt come stock with a dvd drive is there still a good chance that it still has the decoder on the graphics card? and all I need to do is get a dvd-rom for it.? my initial guess would be that it would, but that's only an educated guess. from experience however, unless you've taken an iceBook apart before, it's usually -WAY- more trouble than any upgrade is worth. we're authorized to work on them, and I've taken several apart but our preference is still to just send them all to Apple and let them do it. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- 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-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
