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Mac Forum / General / General / June 2007Internal/External DVD & Vile Player Restriction
My G4's internal combo drive went south a long time ago, but I had already acquired an external Firewire DVD burner, so I've just been using that. Unfortunately, there's that loathsome system restriction that won't let you use DVD Player with an external drive (God that pisses me off). I can use VLC, but I would really rather use DP. Plus it's a minor pain having to deal with an external. Question: if I pop open the external Firewire drive, will I find in there a "regular" internal ATA-or-IDE-or-whatever drive that I could put inside the Mac using the existing connectors? If so, will the DVD Player relent and let me use it *then*? TIA... RGB >Unfortunately, there's that loathsome system restriction that won't let >you use DVD Player with an external drive (God that pisses me off). I >can use VLC, but I would really rather use DP. Plus it's a minor pain >having to deal with an external. I'm curious - what is this restriction? I plugged in a Mad Dog USB drive to my wife's iPod, played music and wrote a DvD with no problem, so I assumed it would work with all Macs. > >Unfortunately, there's that loathsome system restriction that won't let > >you use DVD Player with an external drive (God that pisses me off). I [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > drive to my wife's iPod, played music and wrote a DvD with no problem, > so I assumed it would work with all Macs. The restriction is that "DVD Player" -- the Apple app which is used to play movie DVDs on a Mac -- will only work with an internal DVD drive. Apple's support website blames it on a licensing restriction of the DVD decoding technology: <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42727> >> I'm curious - what is this restriction? I plugged in a Mad Dog USB >> drive to my wife's iPod, played music and wrote a DvD with no problem, >> so I assumed it would work with all Macs. > >The restriction is that "DVD Player" -- the Apple app which is used to >play movie DVDs on a Mac -- will only work with an internal DVD drive. I wonder what played that movie in my test. I'll have to try it again and see. I thought I used the remote control. >>> Unfortunately, there's that loathsome system restriction that won't let >>> you use DVD Player with an external drive (God that pisses me off). I [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42727> I'm surprised at what Wayne C,Morris writes because I regularly use an external La Cie DVD reader-writer to watch DVD's from USA ( zone 1 ) alternatively on a G4 and a G5. It happens that I didn't dare to dezone the G5 internal drive and I discovered the LaCie DVD reader I bought here in France was zone 1 (The internal drive of my "French" G5 is of course zone 2). Well these DVD's are read on the external drive by "DVD Player" exactly as they would be in the internal drive. Where is the problem ? > > The restriction is that "DVD Player" -- the Apple app which is used to > > play movie DVDs on a Mac -- will only work with an internal DVD drive. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Player" exactly as they would be in the internal drive. Where is the > problem ? Maybe that means LaCie paid the license fee? > uestion: if I pop open the external Firewire drive, will I find in > there a "regular" internal ATA-or-IDE-or-whatever drive that I could put > inside the Mac using the existing connectors? If so, will the DVD Player > relent and let me use it *then*? You can do that. You might find it easier to buy a newer faster internal drive.  SignatureW. Oates > > Question: if I pop open the external Firewire drive, will I find in > > there a "regular" internal ATA-or-IDE-or-whatever drive that I could put [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > You can do that. You might find it easier to buy a newer faster internal > drive. Thanks. And yeah, I'm been thinking of doing just that. |
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