DVD Player on non-DVD Mac (was: Here's a nasty one... or maybe not (In three easy steps))

[miltonv at mac.com]

Kunga,

I tried it on my non-DVD iBook and was able to play a DVD file that I 
also downloaded to my hard drive. Before that, it was impossible to 
even install the DVD Player application on the iBook. The patch takes 
away from the application a routine that checks to see if a DVD drive 
is installed.

But it also works to allow external DVD drives to be used so I 
understand from the post below.

I don't believe it has anything to do with iDVD.

Milton

On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 03:21 AM, Thubten Kunga wrote:

> I don't mean to get too excited YET but . . .
> Does this technique allow iDVD 3 to work with external FireWire 
> connected DVR-105 drives? ? ? ? ! ! ! !
> Kunga
>
> 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?
>>>
>>> Would reinstalling OS X (Jaguar) with the new
>>> drive connected also install Apple DVD Player?
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> filipp