Playing DVD on PtP? |
January, 08, 2003 6:42 AM |
gpotter |
Hi all, I've got a problem I can't seem to figure out and am hoping someone here can offer some suggestions. My system specs are: PtP 225 upgraded to a Sonnet G4/400, 320 Meg Ram, Sonnet ATA100, CompUSA firewire/USB combo (the one that works), ATI Radeon PCI (original), 30 Gig WD hard drive with 9, X, and storage partitions (master on first IDE channel), IBM Deskstar 75 Gig drive for storage and video (slave on first IDE channel), Matsushita 2x DVD drive (master on second IDE channel), ZIP 250 (slave on second IDE channel). The system is running a freshly reinstalled copy of 9.1 in the 9 partition and a freshly reinstalled copy of 10.2 in the X partition installed using XPF 2.2.4 and Sonnet's X tuneup to enable cache (reinstalled XPF extentions after X Tuneup). I previously installed a DVD drive I acquired recently thinking that DVD playback should just work per the posts I've seen here. I had 10.2.2 installed and was using the DVD player extracted from the 10.2 CD set. The player would start up and act like it's going to play a DVD, but all I ever got was a black screen. Even after reinstalling 10.2, I never see any drive activity on the DVD drive after a DVD is inserted and mounts on the screen. After 30 sec to 2 min, the player "unexpectedly quits" Does anyone have any suggestions for me? I've used this DVD drive in a B&W G3 before using the OS9 DVD player and it worked perfectly. It even booted the OS9 CD just as if it came from the factory with this drive, so I'm thinking the drive isn't the problem. Anyway, any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Geoff |
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RE: Playing DVD on PtP? |
January, 10, 2003 7:19 PM |
marcush |
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I get solid playback on my machine. No audio sync issues at all. Even with Quartz Extreme enabled the DVD player works with no noticeable performance issues other than an occasional dropped frame if there is a lot of action on the screen. I agree that playback was better under 10.1.5 though. I have a Sonnet G4 800 and 1GB RAM installed in my PTP 225. |
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RE: Playing DVD |
January, 10, 2003 2:52 PM |
tempest |
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That's interesting Marty. I tried two DVDs: Star Wars II and Tombstone and they both fail but at different times. Interesting thing is SW II always fails at the same spot. My PC plays this DVD without any trouble. I emailed XVI and he says the 0x6f error indicates a region-locked drive. I reflashed with a region-free firmware and verified that it is region-free on my PC but I still get the same behavior. Somehow, I feel it is related to loss of audio whenever my display sleeps with my Radeon 7000 and 10.2.3. Incidentally, the OS 9 DVD player will not find the DVD drive. Probably needs to be patched. Does anyone know of a patcher? |
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RE: Playing DVD on PtP? |
January, 10, 2003 2:12 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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Tempest, it sounds like maybe your drive is getting a read error? Did you try multiple disks? My setup which is a Powerwave G4/420 using a SCSI DVD plays ok, but does seem to "hit the wall" at some point (20 minutes?)and get stuttery and lose audio sync. Changing the screen resolution restores the sync... I don't lose the sound at all. Worked better under 10.1.5. Marty |
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RE: Playing DVD on PtP? |
January, 09, 2003 1:29 PM |
marcush |
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This was the trouble I had when I first attempted DVD playback on my PTP. I patched the player after extracting it with Pacafist but it froze my machine the first time I inserted a DVD. After fixing permissions it ran fine. I think that with the Sonnet ATA/100 card that patching would not be necessary since the drive is reported as an ATAPI device. I mentioned the RAM issue as a possibility because several people have reported choppy playback with low RAM levels. |
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RE: Playing DVD on PtP? |
January, 09, 2003 6:44 AM |
gpotter |
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I didn't even consider running the fix permissions after a fresh install of 10.2...I'll give that a whirl and see what happens. I hope it's not a RAM issue...If it is, I'll just have to give up on DVD playing for now. It's not a necessity to me since I have a DVD player. I just thought it would be nice to have it working. Thanks for your input! |
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RE: Playing DVD |
January, 08, 2003 12:36 PM |
tempest |
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Has anyone run into the problem of playing a DVD in 10.2.3 where the DVD plays fine for the first 5 or so minutes and then the sound cuts out and then video gets very sluggish and stops altogether? I'm experiencing this on my 8500 w/ Radeon 7000, Sonnet G4/800, with patched DVD Player 3.2 with a Pioneer DVD-115. This DVD drive is using an ATAPI-to-SCSI converter. Everything else works: booting, reading of DVD-ROMs, CDs, CDs in OS X and OS 9. Though I haven't tried playing a movie under OS 9. I do get lots of messages saying: REPORT_KEY failed : ASC = 0x24, ASCQ = 0x00 and some saying SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, ASC = 0x6f, ASCQ = 0x03 But these messages appear just right after the movie is inserted. |
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RE: Playing DVD on PtP? |
January, 08, 2003 12:16 PM |
marcush |
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Try running fix permissions to see if there is a problem with the DVD app's permissions. You may also have to patch the DVD player for it to work. Though you note that you have a Sonnet ATA/100 card which should give you an advantage since it will let the OS see your drive as an ATAPI device. The only other thing I can think of is adding more RAM. Perhaps you simply don't have enough main memory left for buffering. |