Mark Kippert said:
I recently installed OSX on my wife's 300MHz Wallstreet. It has the DVD
player with PC card decoder. I forgot that OSX does not support the decoder
card. Does anybody have a solution to recommend?
I think the only way is upgrading to a G4 and using VLC. On the other
hand a PB
Andrew F. said:
Mplayer is another non-Apple decoder, but this and most likely VLC will
require more horsepower than any Wallstreet can offer, unless processor
upgraded.
Mplayer (the proper version, not the dead end) requires significantly
less horsepower than VLC.
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Ben Dyer said:
Neither does the PDQ's (also commonly referred to as the Wallstreet,
but actually a different model)
It's actually referred to sometimes as the Wallstreet II. Some parts are
interchangeable, but not all. I've opened the different WS's about 50
times and have another one this
If you want to watch DVDs, my recommendation would be to sell the Wallstreet
and buy either a Pismo, a 500MHz or faster iBook or any flavor of TiBook.
DVD playback quality on my 400MHz Pismo under Panther is excellent, all but
indistinguishable from my 12 1GHz G4 and absolutely good enough for
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Subject: Re: Playing DVDs on a Wallstreet running OSX
The Lombard and the Wallstreet were both able to play DVDs under OS 9
by virtue of a DVD decoder
Ben Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The 400MHz Pismo's 8MB Rage Mobility 128 video card accelerates DVD
playback, and is supported by OS X.
The Lombard's 8MB Rage LT Pro video card does *not* accelerate
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To confirm everything I've been saying, look at Apple's hardware
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I recently installed OSX on my wife's 300MHz Wallstreet. It has the DVD
player with PC card decoder. I forgot that OSX does not support the decoder
card. Does anybody have a solution to recommend?
Thanks,
-Mark
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There is no solution. You just can't play DVDs under OS X.
Cheers,
Ben
On 23 Jan 2005, at 08:38, Mark Kippert wrote:
I recently installed OSX on my wife's 300MHz Wallstreet. It has the DVD
player with PC card decoder. I forgot that OSX does not support the
decoder
card. Does anybody have a
Sure there is, reboot in OS9.
Andrew
On 1/22/05 5:05 PM, Ben Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is no solution. You just can't play DVDs under OS X.
Cheers,
Ben
On 23 Jan 2005, at 08:38, Mark Kippert wrote:
I recently installed OSX on my wife's 300MHz Wallstreet. It has the DVD
Wallstreet- and Lombard-series machines aren't powerful enough to
decode DVDs in software -- that's why DVD-capable models were fitted
with the hardware decoders. OS X does not support hardware DVD decoding
on these models, so it's just not possible to play DVDs under OS X. OS
9 DVD playback,
Actually they are definitely powerful enoug h in software, the problem is
that Apple's OSX DVD Player app lacks a driver for the video cards in these
machines or for the decoder hardware that they offered.
I have both a 400MHz Pismo and a 400MHz Lombard, both with adequate ram and
DVD drives.
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