[P1] iBook and DVD movies

[Joe Jones]

Further to everyone else's answers, I have a 12" 600Mhz iBook that 
plays DVDs beautifully.

Some notes to add though:

Some DVDs won't let you copy to the hard drive as an anti-piracy 
measure. You can probably get around this but I had a few problems with 
it on some disks (I was experimenting with region 1 discs in a region 2 
dvd drive, i know that VLC will play them but I was wondering if I 
could fool Apple's DVD player into playing the disk from the hard drive 
and ignoring the region code). My iBook's DVD drive has had a firmware 
update to remove the illegal region coding.

I find that I can get to just past the Mines of Moria on LotR: 
Fellowship of the Ring on a full charge with the screen brightness near 
full. That's about 2 hours in total. My battery is 18 months old now, 
so that's pretty good.

Joe

On Sunday, Oct 12, 2003, at 03:16 Europe/London, Ken Anderson wrote:

> Hello fellow listers,
>
> I've a couple rather simple questions that I hope this list can help 
> me with.
>
> First my Book; 800/14/640/combo about 9 months old.
>
> Question #1 - I am taking a trip in the near future and want to use my 
> iBook for my own "in flight movie".  What are some things I can do to 
> make sure I get the longest battery life out of it in these 
> conditions?  I do have headphones so as not to disturb my neighbors 
> and run at a lower volume.  I've never use my Book for this before and 
> am unsure what to expect.
>
> Question #2 - Are the sizes of the movie able to be changed beyond 
> what is offered in the menus or are we limited to whatever the disk 
> plays and or the player decodes?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
>
>
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