[CUBE] Yes, an actual working iDVD/external burner hack

[Allan Hise]

I forgot: OS X 10.3.2. Cube has an internal CDRW only.

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Allan Hise wrote:

> I have an external Pioneer 106 attached to my cube via firewire.
> When I instlled Panther, it didn't install DVD player, so I just copied it
> from my iBook with a combo drive (CDRW+DVD read-only).
>
> When I pop a DVD into the pioneer, it fires up DVD player and plays...
>
> Allan
>
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, George Pepper wrote:
>
> > Tell me you're kidding, or tell me what DVD drive you have!... I have a
> > LaCie, and right in the manual it says you can't play DVD's on an
> > external DVD drive due to lack of licensing agreements from Apple!... I
> > was told that this applied to ALL external DVD drives!... My Xserve has
> > only an internal CD-ROM drive, so DVD player DOES NOT EVEN INSTALL on
> > it...
> >
> > Do you have an internal DVD drive also?... If so, that may be part of
> > the situation, or perhaps a third-party DVD player app?... X.iii?...