[hoopla2000]

My pismo powerbook sometimes has trouble playing DVD smoothly or it just stops playing at all. Seems just like a slow CD-rom not capable of playing a CD/VCD at a desirable rate.

Anybody know how fast a DVD ROM a Pismo comes with? and also is it supposed to be fast enough to play most DVDs out for sale?

[cdhostage]

Check which version of DVD Player you're using. O experienced asudden drop in frame rates when I switched from 2.4 to 2.7 Apparently, 2.7 is software-only. This means that the speed at which the DVD player draws new frames is dependent on how fast your CP is. This is fine for a G4, but a g3 at 400 or 500 mhz is jujst barely able to play DVDs without any background tasks, and does it poorly with other things going on.

[hoopla2000]

Thanks for ur info,cdhostage.

It's kind of discouraging to hear a DVD player for my Pismo 400 is not quite capable. I wonder how much better,if any at all, a DVD with new iBook is than one with a Pismo.

[Moderator]

When i switched my Pismo to 2.7 The DVD player stopped working altogether...and I can't get it back even when I go back to 2.4.

But I think 2.4 was software only also..I don't think that the Pismo has a hardware decoder at all.