Perhaps this information is obvious to many, but since it’s the first time I’ve found myself in this situation, I thought it’d be useful to share anyway. Some suggested to download third party software like VLC, but since it can’t rely on the hardware decoder either, I suspect performance would be too poor to watch anything.
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And no, you can’t run Mac OS 9’s ‘Apple DVD Player’ from the Classic Environment, you’ll really have to reboot.
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‘Lombard’, and you install Mac OS X on it, your only option to watch DVDs decently is to reboot in Mac OS 9. So, in a nutshell, if you have a PowerBook G3 (Bronze Keyboard) a.k.a. The following computers may meet the DVD Player requirements: It is installed and will open on computers that meet this requirement. Mac OS 9’s DVD Player works by accessing the computer’s hardware decoder, for which there are no Mac OS X drivers.Ĭorroborated by this Apple technical note, from which I quote this relevant bit:ĭVD Player 3.0 requires an Apple computer originally equipped with a built-in DVD-ROM drive and AGP graphics. The version of the DVD Player provided with Mac OS X is not compatible with the Lombard G3, as it does the decoding in software and your computer’s processor isn’t fast enough to effectively handle it. I dug more, and on another discussion I found this quote: Someone suggested to use Pacifist to extract DVD Player from the Mac OS X Panther Install CD 1, but it had no effect: DVD Player would refuse to run, warning that the hardware was not compatible. I did a brief search on the Web and I found a discussion forum where a user was lamenting the same problem with the very same hardware. Well, I assumed that OS X could detect that the PowerBook was able to play DVDs and act accordingly. The popular Mac video player like Elmedia Player can also support Xvid file. So it was strange that Panther didn’t install its very own DVD Player software. That’s because this model has a built-in hardware decoder. I played a couple of DVDs and was surprised to see how well the PowerBook handled them. This Lombard came with a stock installation of Mac OS 8.6, and a 2x DVD-ROM drive in the right expansion bay. When finally everything was updated and after rebooting for the nth time, I noticed a missing piece: DVD Player. The installation was a long process, surely longer than I remembered, and after installing the Mac OS X 10.3.9 Combo Update (which luckily I had on a CD I burnt a while back, along with the Mac OS X 10.1.5 and 10.2.8 Combo Updates), I still had to wait for more updates, as Software Update promptly informed me:
While today has been “OS X Lion day” for basically everyone, I was updating my recently acquired PowerBook G3/400 ‘Lombard’ to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.
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