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

[Thubten Kunga]

Did you install Jaguar before or after you installed the DVR-104? If 
Jaguar didn't see the DVR-104 at the time of install it would have not 
installed the DVD Player 3.2. The fix would be to reinstall Jaguar or 
install the DVD Player 3.2 from the Jaguar install CD-ROM using 
Pacifist http://www.charlessoft.com to extract only that application 
for installation.

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