[MacDV] Re: iDVD and the Blue and White G3

[Thubten Kunga]

You're really pressing your luck trying to make a Beige G4 upgraded Mac 
from 1998 work with 2003 software. 5 years is a lot of computer time. 
You might want to think about biting the bullet and advancing to the 
next bottom of the line Mac Tower which will be a dual GHz for $1699 
with a Combo drive. You can add your DVR-104 and be off to the races. 
Maybe DVD Player 3.2 doesn't work on 66MHz bus Macs? But I'm just 
guessing. Have you tried reinstalling Jaguar? You are using Jaguar 
right?

k

On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 06:36  PM, Warren Freeman wrote:

> I also did something similar.  I started out with a Beige G3 (300 
> MHz), and
> upgraded it with a G4 processor from Sonnet (500 MHz).  From 
> MacWarehouse I
> got a Pioneer SuperDrive and installed it internally.  It installed 
> smoothly
> enough, but did require downloading a small firmware patch from 
> Pioneer to
> make the drive work with some of the newer higher speed recordable DVD
> disks.  Then I ordered an iDVD installer disk from Apple for $20 and
> installed iDVD.
>
> There was one glitch, however, that came as a bit of a surprise.  When 
> I
> tried to install the software for Apple's DVD Player, the installer 
> refused
> to install the Apple DVD Player on my machine!  Instead, the installer 
> gave
> me an error message saying something like ³The installer cannot 
> install DVD
> Player onto this model of Macintosh².  I contacted tech support at
> MacWarehouse about this, and they suggested I try out a third-party DVD
> Player client from VideoLan.  The VideoLan client, unfortunately, 
> delivered
> very choppy video and very garbled audio on my machine.
>
> At this point, I am not quite sure what to do to view DVDs on my Mac.  
> If I
> could figure out a way to get the installer for Apple's DVD Player to
> install the software on my machine, that would be my first choice.  I 
> have
> also been considering upgrading my video board to an ATI Radeon 7000 to
> accelerate my video throughput in the hopes that I could get the 
> VideoLan
> client to work a little better.  Another option would be to just buy a
> stand-alone DVD player that would plug into my TV set and then just 
> view the
> DVDs on my TV set instead on the Mac.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions as to what I could do to view DVDs on my 
> Mac?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> - Warren Freeman
>
>
> On 1/27/03 5:02 PM, "Thubten Kunga" <Kunga at FutureMedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Cendyne 4x DVD-R/RW at OfficeMax, Staples and Fry's is a Pioneer
>> DVR-105 SuperDrive. You need to add a G4 processor to your G3 for iDVD
>> 3 to work. Inexpensive G4 upgrades for B&W are at OWC among other
>> places. I did it and it works.
>>
>> k
>>
>> On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 04:46  PM, digitalcinema at shaw.ca 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was wondering if anyone could verify whether iDVD would work in my
>>> Blue and White G3 if I popped in an Apple Super Drive. Maybe I could
>>> find one kicking around on eBay.
>>>
>>> Chris:)