Problems with Pioneer DVR-105

[flaffer]

I picked up a dang cheap Pioneer DVR-105. I am using it in a "Beige" G3 minitower with a 500MHz G4 ZIF upgrade. I am using OS 10.2.1

I cannot extract any DVDs. I have tried OSEX, fourty-two, DVD-Backup, etc. I also get kernel panics periodically when initiating a DVD extract. Something in .iotoolkit. When I do get to the point of starting a DVD extraction (say, in fourty-two) I get a "read-write" error.

One thing I did notice: everytime I put in a DVD, it says that the DVD's region code is not set. Is there something I need to do to set the region code before I can play/extract a DVD? I tried running Apple's DVD Player but it says it cannot find any compatible DVD players!

Has anyone used the DVR-105 in a Mac with OS 10.2? Anything you did to it special?

HELP!

Flaffer

[s m y r n a]

When you run Apple's DVD Player for the first time it let's you set the region code...

[flaffer]

Thanks for the reply smyrna.

The problem. i think, is that I cannot set that region code. I have a older beige G3 with an upgrade card in it. Also, the DVD-rw is not the "Superdrive" but an OEM that is suppsed to work ewith Macs.

When I try and run Apple's DVD player (v 1.2), an error message pops up saying I do not have the right hardware! I tried upgrading to other versions of Apple's DVD player, but it always says that it cannot be installed on this Mac's hardware!

I was able to get fourty-two to extract a DIVX test movie which shows up great. But it failed on the full extract. Here is the trace:

Welcome to dvdvx!
(C) 2003 Kai Cherry. All Rights Reserved.
forty-two and its associated engines is Donationware. *Please* consider a donation...as little as a few dollars
means a lot to an out of work coder with bills, such as myself. Thanks!

Begging ends...


Volume /Volumes/TRIGUN1 unmounted
STATUS: Phase 1 Analysis
STATUS: This content is safe to encode at NTSC Film Rate
STATUS: Phase 2 Analysis
STATUS: Checking Audio Format...
STATUS: Using AC3 Audio Copy setting...
STATUS: Encoding 1-Pass Test Clip at your Requested Quality
STATUS: Copying test clip to /Users/bricker/testTrigun_Vol_1.avi.avi
STATUS: Playing test clip...See README


MPlayer CVS-030128-17:21-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

AltiVec found
Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
Reading config file /Users/bricker/.mplayer/config
Reading /Users/bricker/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/Users/bricker/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: this codecs.conf is too old, incompatible with this mplayer release! at line 6
Using built-in default codecs.conf
font: can't open file: /Users/bricker/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /Users/bricker/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config

Playing Trigun_Vol_1.avi.avi
AVI file format detected.
AVI: Missing video stream!? Contact the author, it may be a bug
Falling back on trying to parse playlist Trigun_Vol_1.avi.avi...
============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported =============
=== If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the author! ===


Exiting... (End of file)
458
STATUS: Ok...Encoding DVD to DivX...ZZZZzz
syntax error: Expected end of line, etc. but found “end tell”. (-2741)
Disk /dev/disk2 ejected

Any ideas?

Flaffer

[schwinn]

I am running the same Pioneer Drive in my old World Mac which the Beige G 3 is also. If you are willing to post your email i will send you a very small file 100kb in size which will fix the AppleDVD player which comes with Jaguar so it will run with your drive and let you set the region dode. it will likely also fix the DVD ripping and burning issues. I will under stand if you don't want to post an email address but I know of no other way to help you. Schwinn