Mac Forum / General / Hardware / January 2005

I have 4 large MPEG video files that I want to:
1.  Join together into 1 MPEG video file.
2.  Burn to DVD so that the disc is recognized as a standard
    DVD volume and is playable by any DVD player that knows DVD-R.

I've got a G4 (450 MHz) running OS 9.2.2. Boots up fine. But when
I look at the system info, the CD-ROM status is "BOOT IN PROGRESS".
Any suggestions? Do I need a new CDR or what?
thanks

I am looking for a device to take the regular S-Video output of a iTV
Cable Link for  my iBook and covert it into a regular Composite or RCA
video out.  I need just the video, no sound.  I have the end that
connects to the iBook.  Just the other end doesn't go into my older TV.

Apple gave another example of their great sense of timing :
iPod Mini went out of production just before the Christmas season.
Previous example was iMag G5 that arrived too late for school start.
Now before MWSF the rumor mills said iPod Mini would return with

I'm trying to connect to this network which is open and does not have a
password.
I get the following msg:
"connected to the library level. airport has self assigned IP address &

My 12-year old Power Macintosh 8100/80AV with a 17-inch monitor is still
working fine with Mac OS 9.1.  Everything is normal except that the
menubar in any application is shrinking!  For many years, the menubar
was OK, about 8 mm in height.  About 2 years ago, it started to ...

I just purchases an Epison Perfection 2580 scanner for my PowerMac G4
(mirrored front, dual 867 Mhz, OSX 10.3.7), and it's just not working.
I installed all drivers on the disk BEFORE connecting the scanner, and
no go.  I then downloaded some drivers from the Epson website and still

I have a G4 with two internal drives and a CD RW in the top drive bay. The
bottom bay is empty. Considering putting in a Pioneer 108 - 16x DVD-R/RW &
+R/RW Dual Layer Writer into the bottom tray.
[System- macintosh G4; OSX 10.3.5; 466MHz; 896 Mb SDRAM]

I'm looking for a reliable PCI SCSI card for my G4(AGP).
I need a DB25 connector for my old SCSI devices, so the
possible candidates are:
--Adaptec 2906

I have a new 2 chip 2 GHz G5.  Unlike my old G3, this machine
does not have an input for video.  I'd like to transfer some
older Beta video tapes to DVD.  Can someone suggest a good
video capture solution for the Mac G5 running 10.3.7?

Can I use the Apple 23" Cinema display with the new Mac Mini?

     My son's iBook (Dual USB -  mfd 11/2001) is making some
very strange hard drive noises. Other symptoms included what I
assume to be some sort of OS corruption, &c. I had him back up,
and I proceeded to erase and zero out the drive, A Toshiba 18.5

I tried to post this once already elsewhere, but I think the newsreader
ate the post (or the server did; I don't know.  Anyway...
I have a G4/667 tower with 1 GB RAM.  There are two, 256MB modules and
one 512.  Today, after more than two years of running in this

My old G3 is getting obsolete.  I want to get an OSX machine that will
download music and video, etc. and be compatible with various servers.  Some
wideband will only do PC, and most of the ones which do Mac only do OSX.
I've used an eMac, and it seems pretty good, especially for ...

During the daytime when working on my Mac I sit about 50 feet from a person,
also working on a Mac, who has got to be one of the harshest typists known to
mankind. When she types the air is filled with an extremely loud, and to me
extremely distracting,