[CUBE] How To Get DVD Player To Work With FireWire DVD Players

[Thubten Kunga]

That's a DIFFERENT patch Steve. Totally different thing you are asking 
about. Here is your solution from the MacDV list.

k

> On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 12:17  AM, Filipp Lepalaan wrote:
>
>> OK,
>> Just in case someone's interested how this one turned out:
>> To get DVD Player to work under OS X when you've bought an external 
>> DVD with a machine that would otherwise be capable of playing them 
>> (has enough horsepower / graphics card like for eg. the newer CD-ROM 
>> iMacs) you do this:
>> 1) Dowload Pacifist from: http://www.charlessoft.com/Pacifist.dmg 
>> this thing will allow you to do *real* custom OS X installs.
>> 2) Insert your OS X Install disk File -> Open -> 
>> CD/System/Installation/Packages/Essentials.pkg
>> (or somthing like that) and there you'll find DVDPlayer.app - 
>> activate and install.
>> 3) Then you go and download this thing:
>> http://195.134.134.27/downloads/macdvd/DVD_Player_Patch_3.2.bin
>> (this'll patch the freshly installed Apple DVD player to allow using 
>> of external players.)
>> Run the .command and voila.
>> Hoping this'll come in handy for someone,
>> filipp
>>
>>
>>> Hi
>>> What do you do when you buy
>>> an external DVD player/burner for your flat
>>> panel iMac (with a CD-RW drive for eg)
>>> and want to watch DVD's under OS X?

On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 10:47  AM, Steve Goldstein wrote:

> With all this talk about connecting an external DVD and/or patching, 
> does anybody know how to get DVD Player to work to play DVD's 
> (movies)?  Not that this is the most important part of my life on my 
> Mac, but now that I have a Pioneer 105 up and running (aka 
> Superdrive), I try to open DVD Player, and it starts to open, but gets 
> nowhere.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve