MCE Combo Drive for Wallstreet

[theos911]

http://www.macworld.com/article/19425/2001/10/mce.html

Does anyone have one of these?

Is it possible to get hardware assisted DVD playback with MCE's card under X?

As my WS is slowly turning into my main PPC machine, I'm looking into all upgrades possible and the possibility of hacking a slot loading DVD/CD burner into the WS is EXTREMELY tempting.

EDIT:
Support pages, look under Xcarét Pro Expansion Bay CD-RW and CD-RW/DVD Combo Drives
http://www.mcetech.com/support.html

The DVD decoder card is also available for sale and is on clearance!
http://store.mcetech.com/Merchant2/merc ... de=DVDMPG2

[Byrd]

The DVD decoder card never worked under X - it's OS 9 only I'm afraid. If you have an upgraded WS however, try loading the DVD movies under VLC under X - you might be lucky in a windowed mode.

A slot-loading drive sounds good You could probably cannibalise a good tray-load DVD burner from a generic PC laptop in there though with less fuss.

JB

[theos911]

I went ahead and snagged one of the MCE decoder cards while I could. I don't have an apple card and DVD under 9 is better than DVD under nothing. (Wonders if card has Linux support...)

Do we know if there are differences between the Apple Card and the MCE card?

[Byrd]

It certainly looks the same as the Apple card, right down to the black sticker - wouldn't be surprised if it is

[theos911]

Dang!

Oh well, still can't beat the price, especially since I haven't seen any here or on eBay.

Besides, like you said, the G4 500 might be able to software decode it anyway. (Once I get a fan and stop it overheating.)

[Bunsen]

Hmmm now. I wonder if you could finagle that to work in a PCI-Cardbus adapter.