Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >You don't like to talk about problems you don't have. We can talk until we are blue in the face, but unless you and others take legal action Apple won't change anything with support for your model. We reached that insight weeks ago. As you have stated your probl

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Mikael, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Most likely you checked the Mplayer 0.1 and not the Mplayer 2 betas. I >only had great success with beta 4 and 7 (current is 8, but I haven't >tried it yet). I missed to point out that these are 2 DIFFERENT applications, at least on Mac OS X. That's why they have

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

"I don't care what Apple do as long as I can watch DVDs, MPG4s and S-VCD titles." I do. You don't have that problem, so I understand you don't care. If I'm egocentered, I believe you are too. You don't like to talk about problems you don't have. Instead of taking legal actions, I made a different

Re: DVDdecoding on Titanium 'books (was "Re: DVD Issue on Lombards")

Mikael, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Dan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >>Pismo's (and 400 Lombard's) ATI display hardware _does_ include a >>built-in hardware DVD decoder. > >What about the Titanium Powerbooks? I found a clue: "The RAGE Mobility 128 provides remarkable multimedia functionality, all in

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >I didn't check Mplayer, because 99% of the comments >said "Non Working" (from Version Tracker). Most likely you checked the Mplayer 0.1 and not the Mplayer 2 betas. I only had great success with beta 4 and 7 (current is 8, but I haven't tried it yet). Mplayer 2

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

"Well, the iBook 366 *CAN*." If you believe that only the G3 processor counts, do the following: Boot on OS 9 and from System/Libary/Extensions, move all the ATI files to another place. Boot on OS X and check "Full Screen" with any Application (mplayer, QuickTime or another). When placing the E

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

"Well, the iBook 366 *CAN*." Well, the ibook 366 has an ATI RAGE 128 wich IS SUPPORTED by OS X. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

>On OS X and with the ATI card unsupported at all, a G3 >400 can't do that. "Well, the iBook 366 *CAN*. I did it myself 2 years ago. Some frames may have to be dropped, but there was no jerky movement and looked quite good. I was using Mplayer 2 beta4 at the time I think. Mplayer is *much* faster

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Andrew, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >You need to set the external screen to be the primary screen. Well, where can you see what is the primary screen? I see nothing in screen prefs nor in DVD player. The help for DVD player say *you can* watch movies on a TV, but gives no direct info on how to set th

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >On OS X and with the ATI card unsupported at all, a G3 >400 can't do that. Well, the iBook 366 *CAN*. I did it myself 2 years ago. Some frames may have to be dropped, but there was no jerky movement and looked quite good. I was using Mplayer 2 beta4 at the time

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

>Since the overlay effectively bypasses the video card, if you take the screenshot (or put it on desktop), you only end up with the pixels in the strange colour. But why would this be the case for PLAYING THE DVD on an external screen, likew a TV ( via S-Video)? That's a different issue. You nee

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Marcin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Since the overlay effectively bypasses the video card, if you take the screenshot (or put it on desktop), you only end up with the pixels in the strange colour. But why would this be the case for PLAYING THE DVD on an external screen, likew a TV ( via S-Video)? Tha

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Well, on OS 9 the Lombard can too, but using the Video Card. On OS X and with the ATI card unsupported at all, a G3 400 can't do that. --- Mikael Byström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > >it will NOT play the movies (for DVD > >Playback without DVD Decoders,

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Marcin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Since the overlay effectively bypasses the video card, if you take the >screenshot (or put it on desktop), you only end up with the pixels in >the strange colour. But why would this be the case for PLAYING THE DVD on an external screen, likew a TV ( via S-Video

DVDdecoding on Titanium 'books (was "Re: DVD Issue on Lombards ")

Dan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Pismo's (and 400 Lombard's) ATI display hardware _does_ include a >built-in hardware DVD decoder. What about the Titanium Powerbooks? -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Driv

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >it will NOT play the movies (for DVD >Playback without DVD Decoders, you need a G3 500mhz or >faster). The iBook 366 can play MPEG4 movies fine full screen. That's more computing than playing a DVD with MPEG2 I'm sure. Go figure. -- G-Books is sponsored by <

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

I believe, you can't. The iBook don't have a DVD Decoding card, so if you add a DVD Drive, it will NOT play the movies (for DVD Playback without DVD Decoders, you need a G3 500mhz or faster). Also, the Fastest Clamshell iBook was the 466mhz (the Grey one), but it has a DVD Drive so you should repla

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Speaking of playing DVD's, can you put a DVD or Combo drive in a clamshell iBook? Looking at maybe getting a tangerine iBook, but would like to have DVD playing ability, or even better the Combo drive. Thanks! JR -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

For example, if you make a snapshot when running a movie, you can choose that on Appearence as a Desktop picture. You will have a movie running as a Desktop Picture (it works on Lombard and Wallstreet at least). If you put away the DVD, the Desktop picture will become a brown box. Really Strange. A

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

On PowerBook G3 Series without built-in DVD decoder hardware (Wallstreet and most 333 Lombards), the DVD decoder cardbus card decodes the DVD and plays it back through the zoomed-video pins in the PC card slot. That video is fed directly to the display, bypassing the internal ATI display driver

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

on 06/08/04 20:51, Mikael Byström at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >> Only the Lombard and Wallstreet PowerBooks have DVD >> Decoding Hardware (and a few PowerMac G3). >> The Pismo G3 and the PowerBook G4 have Software >> Decoding. > OK, but this still doesn't ad

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Maybe, it was me who was wrong. Excuse me if it was the case. --- Mikael Byström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > >Only the Lombard and Wallstreet PowerBooks have DVD > >Decoding Hardware (and a few PowerMac G3). > >The Pismo G3 and the PowerBook G4 have Soft

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Only the Lombard and Wallstreet PowerBooks have DVD >Decoding Hardware (and a few PowerMac G3). >The Pismo G3 and the PowerBook G4 have Software >Decoding. OK, but this still doesn't address my questions concerning why decoding fails in some cases, so I better r

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Only the Lombard and Wallstreet PowerBooks have DVD Decoding Hardware (and a few PowerMac G3). The Pismo G3 and the PowerBook G4 have Software Decoding. Anyway, the ATI cards use other kind of video so you can't take a picture of a movie when running DVD Player. VLC works different so you can take

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

--- Eugene Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 03:36:27PM -0700, Alejandro > wrote: > : > : --- Eugene Lee wrote: > : > > : > For DVD playback, Lombard's 400 MHz G3 might be > a bit slow for a > : > software DVD player. But I think the main > culprit may be the video > : >

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Eugene, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > But I think the main culprit may be the >video card bus: there might not be enough headroom to push the >amount of decoded DVD data from the CPU to the video card. So why does it work with the OS 9 decoder ring in these machines? Is the decoder also a graphic boo

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 03:36:27PM -0700, Alejandro wrote: : : --- Eugene Lee wrote: : > : > For DVD playback, Lombard's 400 MHz G3 might be a bit slow for a : > software DVD player. But I think the main culprit may be the video : > card bus: there might not be enough headroom to push the amount

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

We are talking about OS X, because on OS 9 (wich should be Dead to developers) the same machine has DVD Playback and Open GL. --- Eugene Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:38:57AM -0400, Laurent > Daudelin wrote: > : > : on 06/08/04 02:14, Mikael Byström at > [EMAIL PR

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:38:57AM -0400, Laurent Daudelin wrote: : : on 06/08/04 02:14, Mikael Byström at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : > Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: : > : >> I have the FASTEST Lombard (400mhz one) and VLC can't : >> play DVDs on Full Screen with good performance (same :

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

on 06/08/04 02:14, Mikael Byström at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >> I have the FASTEST Lombard (400mhz one) and VLC can't >> play DVDs on Full Screen with good performance (same >> result with Thousands Colors selected). >> Also, the Flurry Screensaver on Lomba

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

It's a fact. A G3 400mhz can't provide full screen video without the help of the Video Card (Not supported on OS X). That's why the ATI Rage Pro LT came with DVD Decoding (Hardware DVD Decoder). I made a simple thing: Selected Flurry Screensaver and Without other Applications running (Finder not ac

Re: DVD Issue on Lombards.

Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >I have the FASTEST Lombard (400mhz one) and VLC can't >play DVDs on Full Screen with good performance (same >result with Thousands Colors selected). >Also, the Flurry Screensaver on Lombard PowerBooks >looks like a Pictures SlideShow. >It's a fact that OS X can'