Re: Failing router?

2011-11-23 Thread Clark Martin
On Nov 23, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Bill Spencer wrote: > Hi there: My son came home from college last night, and almost immediately > told me that the router (basic Netgear wireless) is giving off a high-pitched > whine or squeal or whistle or something, which he had not heard before. > Neither my

Re: Playing DVD movies on G3 Indigo iMac

2011-11-23 Thread D. Fabel
Well, here's where I ended up... Handbrake H.264 - No good, regardless of the setting I tried. I got the "Apple iPod" preset to work, but only by switching the codec from h.264 to mpeg-4. The video is shrunk from 720x480 down to 320X240, but works well enough for my needs. I'm off to rip some

Re: Failing router?

2011-11-23 Thread Dan
At 12:23 PM -0800 11/23/2011, Bill Spencer wrote: Hi there: My son came home from college last night, and almost immediately told me that the router (basic Netgear wireless) is giving off a high-pitched whine or squeal or whistle or something, which he had not heard before. Neither my wife nor

Re: Failing router?

2011-11-23 Thread Christopher Satterfield
The 1st thing I would do is reset it by unplugging it for 30 seconds, see if it's still there. I've got a Linksys that has the same sound if you stick your ear right upto it but I've never had any problems. -- C:\win Bad Command Or File Name C:\ -- You received this message because you are a me

Failing router?

2011-11-23 Thread Bill Spencer
Hi there: My son came home from college last night, and almost immediately told me that the router (basic Netgear wireless) is giving off a high-pitched whine or squeal or whistle or something, which he had not heard before. Neither my wife nor I can hear it so I have to take this on faith. The

Re: Playing DVD movies on G3 Indigo iMac

2011-11-23 Thread Dan
At 10:34 AM -0800 11/23/2011, D. Fabel wrote: Looking at Handbrake, it looks like I can either use an H.264 video codec or MPEG-4 (FFmpeg) codec. Any idea which of these I should be using? I don't see a way to use an MPEG-2 or MPEG-1 codec. DivX, Xvid, and H.264 *are* MPEG-4 variants. Very

Re: Playing DVD movies on G3 Indigo iMac

2011-11-23 Thread D. Fabel
Some good food for thought. Thank you all! I think I've found a possible internal DVD replacement drive. May give that a try if I can't find the appropriate Handbrake settings. Looking at Handbrake, it looks like I can either use an H.264 video codec or MPEG-4 (FFmpeg) codec. Any idea which

Re: Playing DVD movies on G3 Indigo iMac

2011-11-23 Thread Dan
At 10:07 AM -0800 11/23/2011, Clark Martin wrote: G3 Macs that shipped with DVD drives also had video hardware that decoded the video data. decoded the MPEG-2 video data. A G3 just isn't up to full screen video playback. My Smurf does just fine full screen. Just need to be careful of the s

Re: Playing DVD movies on G3 Indigo iMac

2011-11-23 Thread Clark Martin
On Nov 23, 2011, at 8:23 AM, "D. Fabel" wrote: > Looking for a little help here. I've got an Indigo iMac, 500MHz, with 512MB > ram that has a CD drive only. I'm trying to get movies onto it but running > into problems. > > First off, DVD Player will not open as it knows there isn't an intern

Re: Playing DVD movies on G3 Indigo iMac

2011-11-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 23, 2011, at 9:23 AM, D. Fabel wrote: > Looking for a little help here. I've got an Indigo iMac, 500MHz, with 512MB > ram that has a CD drive only. I'm trying to get movies onto it but running > into problems. Just go get a dvd drive and replace the CD drive with it. I'll warrant that

Re: Playing DVD movies on G3 Indigo iMac

2011-11-23 Thread Jack Suggs
I have an Iomega USB external drive that works well with my graphite iMac G3 600mhz. It burns CDs and plays DVDs without any problems. (I use this iMac as a music server). -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The

Playing DVD movies on G3 Indigo iMac

2011-11-23 Thread D. Fabel
Looking for a little help here. I've got an Indigo iMac, 500MHz, with 512MB ram that has a CD drive only. I'm trying to get movies onto it but running into problems. First off, DVD Player will not open as it knows there isn't an internal DVD drive attached. Plugging in either an external fir