DVD Player for old powermacs

[sircabulon]

I have a beige G3 (check signature) that I want to be able to play DVD's on. VLC kinds sucks for that because you can't do anything else while using it and even still it has a slow frame rate when running independently. I tried doing the hack where you delete the "Install Check" file inside the DVD Player update package, version 3.1.1, and got DVD Player to install. The actual app itself wouldn't open, so I then got pacifist and used it to install the version that came with panther. It will open, but it says that it cannot find a valid DVD drive. I then researched more into it and found an alternative application, but cannot get the stupid file to download because of some sort of microsuck server error on the other end. If anyone has solved this problem before, please help me out. Even if I could get it to work in classic, it would be good enough for me.

 

[register]

Get some DVD player hardware (for example: the Plextor DVD burner 708A works great, region free firmware is available also, and the G3 will boot and install from this drive). Then get your software running. In classic Mac OS you will need to apply some patch. I found Video playback is smooth on a stock G3/233 Mhz with RAM and VRAM maxed out.

 

[madmax_2069]

what i did was get a Radeon 7000 Mac edition and a Pioneer DVR-110D and all was good, in OS 9.2.2 with the hacked DVD player on http://www.os9forever.com/

even tho the DVD playback is software (not needing a hardware decoder) the Radeon 7000 was still the only card that DVD's would play on.

now my drive in tiger didnt work real well cause i had to use xpostfacto and that causes issues with the optical drive in not being funtional. but in panther and jaguar it worked great.

i played my DVDs all the time on my Beige G3 with the hacked DVD player in OS 9 and OS X. i did upgrade the CPU to a G3 466 (stock B&W G3 450).the stock 266mhz G3 was almost not enought to play DVDs and upping the nram to 768mb also helped allot.

 

[sircabulon]

how did you get it to work in panther? I am having a mess of trouble with it and i have the same exact drive and a newer video card.... Also, I tried the os 9 patch with no avail. The only thing i can think of is if maybe it is the ATA controller card I added. I will try using the motherboard bus and see what happens.

 

[sircabulon]

ok, i switched the DVD drive back to the internal ATA bus and it is working in panther now!