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

[Thubten Kunga]

You're using BUILT-IN Video on the motherboard?!?!?!? No way will that 
work. Duh!

Go buy the 32MB ATI Radeon 7000 PCI card for $129 to assure excellent 
performance.

k

On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 06:45  PM, Adrian Smith wrote:

>> Combining responses:
>>
>>>  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.
>>
>> Since I did install Jaguar on my machine before I installed the 
>> DVR-104
>> SuperDrive, I believe your explanation is correct that the Jaguar 
>> installer
>> could not have seen a DVD-capable drive on the machine at the time 
>> Jaguar
>> was installed and, as a result, did not install the DVD Player 
>> application
>> along with the rest of the other Jaguar apps.
>>
>> Using Pacifist from http://www.charlessoft.com, I was, however, 
>> finally able
>> to install the DVD Player on my machine to try and see if it would 
>> run.
>> Unfortunately, however, once the DVD Player was installed, I got the
>> following message:
>>
>> "DVD Player encountered a serious error.  The current machine or 
>> system
>> configuration is not supported. [-70013]"
>>
>
>
> I believe that is because the built-in video on the beigeG3 does not 
> support software DVD playback. To do that you need a minimum of a Rage 
> 128 card.