Apple DVD Player Not Reconising Formac Devideon Drive

[scartcable]

Hey
My first post here so i thought i'd say hi
Anyway
Yesterday i got the Formac Devideon DVD Burner. ive been backing up my mp3s and all is well but now i want to back up my dvd movies and in order for me to do so i must open up apple dvd player and have it access the dvd well when i open apple dvd player it says the correct hardware cannot be found is there anyway i can use apple dvd player with my external formac drive?


thanks

[AntnyMD]

Apple DVD Player doesnt work with external DVD drives without a patch. You no longer need to play the DVD first in order to rip it. Use Hades to get your process started.

[robguy]

Where does one get a patch? I have a Lacie external. I can play DVD movies with VLC, but it doesn't have access to the video acceleration routines for the Mac. If there's a patch I can get, lovely. Hopefully, that patch will also be a portal to IDVD, which is useless for external DVD drives.

[WiseWeasel]

Check out this thread for doing what you want with Panther.

[robguy]

Thanks, WW; I will D/L and try it out this weekend. It's a great link.

Here's the tech support e-mail I got from Lacie regarding external drives:

Hello,
The drive is not compatible with Apples DVD player. That software is only compatible with internal DVD drives. At this time it is not 100% legal to watch DVD movies with external drives on Mac computers.
--
Regards.
LaCie Technical Support
22985 NW Evergreen Pkwy
Hillsboro OR 97124

Pretty amusing, yes?

[robguy]

Sadly, Pacifist cannot extract the mkpkg, so iDVD4 will not install (probably because I don't have an internal SuperDrive).

Here are my steps:
When I opened Pacifist, and selected "open package," all that I could do was point it to the mkpkg on the install disk. That mkpkg was, in fact, a shortcut alias to somewhere -- but I don't know where (either the hard drive or a hidden file on the install DVD), and I could not find the original with Sherlock.

So, bottom line: I have iDVD4, but can't install it on my graphite iMac G3.

The good news, though, is that at least my Mac recognizes I HAVE an external burner.

If anyone else has an idea as to how I can install iDVD and be able to use an external DVD burner, I'm all ears.

[WiseWeasel]

You can't install iDVD on a G3. It needs a G4 processor to do MPEG2 encoding. That thread was just for DVD Player. You can use some free software like ffmpegX and Sizzle, but no iDVD unless you upgrade to a G4 or G5.

[robguy]

Ok, I'll stumble along with my G3 and other authoring programs.

I also tried Pacificst for the Apple DVD Player; all I got was an icon that doesn't launch anything. So I now use VLC in OSX 10.3, and if I REALLY want to use an Apple DVD player, I boot under OS9 (not Classic), and use Apple DVD Player 2.4. Works like a charm.

Thanks for your help.