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

[Phil Mitchell]

George - I'm getting back to you!

LaCie DVD R/RW external drive has been playing DVDs just fine since 
plugged into FW connector after a LaCie 160GB FW HD. No special SW... 
just works! Cube/500MHz/30GB HD/1.5GB RAM/internal stock CD/DVD.

pm
On Mar 10, 2004, at 9:51 AM, George Pepper wrote:

> How did you copy DVD player from your iBook?... I tried that by 
> dragging the icon from my iBook to the Xserve HD in Target Disk mode, 
> but DVD player would not launch on the Xserve: It spontaneously quit 
> whenever I tried to launch it... I am using X.ii, so if this is a new 
> feature under X.iii, there's my reason to upgrade!...
>
> Pep
>
> On Wednesday, March 10, 2004, at 08:40  AM, Allan Hise wrote:
>
>>
>> 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?...
>>
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