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#462534 - 10/05/05 01:38 PM Help me with my iMac [Re: Anonymous]
TCPMeta MacModder Registered: 11/15/07 Posts: 1797 Loc: Florida, USA	Well I need some help with my modded iMac. Some of you know that I have modded my tray-load iMac to use a Slot-Load DVD drive. Well I maxed out the memory to 256MB and slaped on Mac OS X 10.1.5. One problem I face is playing DVD movies. I know my iMac can play DVDs just fine because i've dealt with less on a PC. Anyway, when I load the Apple DVD Player it says that my iMac is supported. Is there a way to make it bypass that and force it to play DVDs or maybe a diffrent DVD player program? Also can I upgrade my VRAM to 8MB or higher? _________________________ To live is to let die
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#462535 - 10/05/05 02:14 PM Re:Help me with my iMac [Re: Anonymous]
MikeMan Registered: 03/18/05 Posts: 121	i dont think you can upgrade higher than 6mb Vram but then i might be wrong do you have 6mb vram or 2mb or 4mb i think they came in but there are a few mezzanine slot upgrades you can here about on http://www.xlr8yourmac.com and you might be able to find one on Ebay Mike _________________________ AMD Athlon 64 3000+ @ 1.9ghz, RaidMax X-1, 520W RaidMax PSU, 1GB A-Data DDR400 Ram, DL-16x LG DVD Writer, Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLI, 200GB Sata, 2x 20GB PATA 1x 40 PATA, Nvidia 6600 256mb
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#462536 - 10/05/05 08:30 PM Re:Help me with my iMac [Re: Anonymous]
TCPMeta MacModder Registered: 11/15/07 Posts: 1797 Loc: Florida, USA	I have 6MB of VRAM. _________________________ To live is to let die
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#462537 - 10/05/05 09:14 PM Re:Help me with my iMac [Re: Anonymous]
Waragainstsleep Registered: 02/13/05 Posts: 1723	My PowerBook (G3 Lombard) is a fairly similar machine to your iMac. Same RAM, similar graphics and clock speeds etc. The DVD player is one of the few parts of OS X which does not run on this machine. If you are getting the unsupported message, then you cannot run it on yours either. You could try VLC instead. http://www.videolan.org There's another one called MPlayer. Don't know where to get that, never tried it.
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#462538 - 10/05/05 11:01 PM Re:Help me with my iMac [Re: Anonymous]
TCPMeta MacModder Registered: 11/15/07 Posts: 1797 Loc: Florida, USA	Sweet, I completly forgot about MPlayer. Thanks Waragainstsleep _________________________ To live is to let die
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#462539 - 10/06/05 04:03 AM Re:Help me with my iMac [Re: Anonymous]
macDeviant Registered: 02/14/05 Posts: 491	hey that might work for my Biege G3 too. I loaded X.2.8 on there and suddenly no dvd support :S freaky _________________________ 2.4gHz 15" MacBook Pro, 1.66gHz Core Duo Mac Mini, 2.5gHz G5 QUAD, 733mHz Quicksilver, 450mHz G4 Cube, 700mHz G3 iBook, 350mHz Sawtooth G4, 350mHz Revs. A and B B&W G3, 16mHz Powerbook 100, 8mHz Macitosh Classic.
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#462540 - 10/07/05 11:46 PM Re:Help me with my iMac [Re: Anonymous]
TCPMeta MacModder Registered: 11/15/07 Posts: 1797 Loc: Florida, USA	Blast it! MPlayer doesn't work worth crap in mac os x. I might have to instal Fink and compile the source. _________________________ To live is to let die
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#462541 - 10/08/05 02:18 AM Re:Help me with my iMac [Re: Anonymous]
maestro Registered: 11/15/07 Posts: 1656	Did you try VLC? When ever I have issues with the DVD, I use it and it always seems to work. -maestro
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