iDVD question?

[bluetooth]

Dumb question...I have the DVD tiger upgrade. I am on a G4 Power Mac. I put the DVD in and it spits it back out. I put any general DVD in and it does not play. I look in my apps and the iDVD App is in OS9 system folder. I double click and I get a pop up saying that Classic does not support this Application.

I am operating in OSX.

What does this mean?

Thanks!

 

[mad jew]

Does System Profiler list your drive as being capable of reading DVDs?

 

[bluetooth]

Hi,

Yes, I tried that...under Software>Applications, the application is there
Apple DVD Player 2.7.

Or is there somewhere else I should be looking?

thanks

 

[mad jew]

Nah, I mean System Profiler. Go to About This Mac in the Apple menu, click on More Info and System Profiler should pop up. From here, check the Disc Burning area to get more info on your drive. It should tell you if it's capable of reading DVDs.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

The original iDVD program was an OS 9 application. That is why you see a copy of it in "Applications (OS 9)". But because of the way it works, it only runs when booted directly into OS 9, it does not work in OS X's "Classic" mode.

If iDVD came on your G4, then your G4 has a SuperDrive, it should be able to read and write DVDs. If it can't, then your drive is broken.

But, just to make sure (for example, if you're not the original owner, it's possible that the previous owner removed the SuperDrive and put a CD-ROM or CD-RW drive in; or it may not have had a SuperDrive in the first place, and someone installed the software from a system that did.)

The way to find out what is in your computer:

menu, "About This Mac". Click "More Info..." (This loads System Profiler.) In System Profiler, click "Disc Burner". Among other things, it will have a line for "Reads DVD" that will say yes or no, and a line for "CD-Write" and "DVD-Write" that show which types of discs it can write.

For example, my old iMac G3 says:

Reads DVD: No
CD-Write: -R, -RW

While the external drive attached to my MacBook Pro says:

Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RAM, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL

If your computer says "Reads DVD: Yes", yet it won't, then the drive is broken.

 

[bluetooth]

Thanks for the help.

Here is what it says:

Drive Type: CD-RW
Disk Burning: Apple supported/shipped
Removeable Media: Yes
Detachable Drive: No

Nothing with DVD anywhere? Does this mean there it will not read DVDs? I thought this came standard in G4s.

 

[mad jew]

Sorry mate, looks like it doesn't have DVD playback support.

 

[bluetooth]

Any idea on what the approximate cost to put one in would be (ball park)?

thanks a lot.

 

[lostless]

Any idea on what the approximate cost to put one in would be (ball park)?

thanks a lot.

Any dvd-r drive will work. Just go to you local electronics store, and pick one up. they cost around 50-60 bucks for a dvd recorder.