i have had a very similar problem with an Orb SCSI drive and a Powerbook G3 Series 233mhz. i think it has something to do with using the external SCSI drive as the boot drive a few…
According to FiringSquad the Rage 128 Mobility (same chip on Pismo) has hardware DVD decoding capability. Does anybody know if the Apple DVD Player takes advantage of this?
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The player is aparently not using the Chip's mpeg2 decoding facility, as Apple advertise it as "Software DVD player". Maybe at a later date...
Maybe ATI should start to develop an…
It would certainly be VERY cool if someone could get the ATI Mobility 128's DVD decoding to work.
Hardware decoding enables you go watch a DVD in the background or in a little win…
Actually, from what I understand, Apple does use some of the chip's hardware. Just from looking at it on my Pismo, I would venture to say it does hardware scaling (because when you…
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Originally posted by tooki:
I agree that ATI should write a DVD player for the Mac, seeing as how Apple refuses to make the effort...
And herein lies the one…
from the ATI RAGE 128 FAQ:
Q13: Do the new RAGE 128 based Macintosh boards support DVD/Mpeg-2 acceleration?
A13: While the RAGE 128 chip can "power" software DVD playback, for it…