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jock · Apr 29, 2005, 08:18 AM

Since upgrading, my DVD app will not play a DVD, its just artifacts, this is with a standard sawtooth, with an ATI 8500 card. I have even installed 10.4 on a firewire drive with the same results. However under 10.3.9 it works perfectly. Any Ideas?

Thinine · Apr 29, 2005, 08:34 AM

Wait for 10.4.1.

typoon · Apr 29, 2005, 09:02 AM

Try repairing permissions, Also How did you install 10.4? Just as an update or Clean install or Archive and Install? I've got a Radeon 9000 installed on my Sawtooth and it seems to work fine.

PubGuy · Apr 29, 2005, 09:21 AM

I've got a sawtooth G4-400 with an 800 MHz upgrade card and ATI 8500 video.
10.4 works fine here, plays DVDs perfectly. I did an Archive & Install.

Eug Wanker · Apr 29, 2005, 09:22 AM

Yeah, my Radeon 9000 works fine too. The Radeon 9000 is a rehashed 8500, and actually uses the 8500 drivers I believe.

Todd Madson · Apr 30, 2005, 04:23 PM

I have a 400 mhz G4/400 (AGP/Sawtooth) with a Radeon 8500 that once I updated
to Tiger it does the same thing.

The DVD drive is a LITE-ON DVD SOHD-16P9S - my original Apple drive died but
I have seen on the net others have used this drive and it views the contents of DVD
discs and also loads programs (as in the Tiger install DVD) just fine.

I will try repairing permissions and see what happens.

I'm hoping to get a refurbed/used Pioneer superdrive to see if that helps too but that
will be for the future.

shawp · Apr 30, 2005, 04:48 PM

I am also having the same problem with the DVD player app on my machine. I have a Radeon 8500 and the DVD drive is an LG GSA-4163B. Both these were recently added to my machine, but I haven't had any problems until now. I can also still play DVDs using VLC.

Todd Madson · May 1, 2005, 12:51 AM

VLC works beautifully.

Alexei · May 1, 2005, 08:47 AM

I have an old Sawtooth with 1GHz upgrade and flashed Radeon 8500 card in it. Upgraded from OSX 10.2, clean install. First couldn't get backside cache to work but Powerlogix released an update to their software and all is dandy. Tiger is the best Mac OS so far IMHO.
I recommend clean install and make sure you erase your boot drive beforehand.

barney ntd · May 1, 2005, 10:49 AM

As I said in the thread in Applications, I have this problem with an ATI 8500 mac edition on a 400MHz sawtooth with the original DVD drive & processor. I originally did an archive install; since then I've tried installing the latest drivers from ATI, upgrading the ATI firmware, repairing permissions (just to shut people up), reinstalling Tiger (this time as an upgrade install), and I'm out of ideas.

Has anyone got DVD Player to work on an 8500 with a 400MHz processor?

Barney.

Todd Madson · 08:26 PM

My own Sawtooth with 400 mhz processor and ATI 8500 does the same artifacting with
the DVD player.

The only difference is I had to replace Apples' 6x DVD-ROM with a faster 16X DVD-ROM.
The Apple drive had a hardware failure.

If I run VLC (I am running v0.81) I am then able to watch movies off DVD just fine.

If I run the Apple player it produces the weird artifacting.

I'm tempted to zap the pram and see if that fixes it but VLC is just as good as the
Apple player IMHO so I'll use that until they fix it.

jock · May 2, 2005, 02:58 AM

It appears that everything does work under 10.3.9 but not under 10.4, the only thing that has changed is the DVD app, so we know that 10.4.1 has a new version as its required for DVD SP.
I guess we'll have to wait until the middle of the month.

barney ntd · May 2, 2005, 05:53 AM

Originally Posted by jock

It appears that everything does work under 10.3.9 but not under 10.4, the only thing that has changed is the DVD app,

Not quite as simple as that, I'm afraid. I dragged in the DVD app from 10.3.9 and tried that (not really expecting it to work at all). It ran without complaint, but had exactly the same problem. It's more likely a problem with the new ATI drivers.

Barney.

jock · May 2, 2005, 07:30 AM

Originally Posted by barney ntd

Not quite as simple as that, I'm afraid. I dragged in the DVD app from 10.3.9 and tried that (not really expecting it to work at all). It ran without complaint, but had exactly the same problem. It's more likely a problem with the new ATI drivers.

Barney.

Yeah I tried that Barney to no avail, however VLC does work.

angelmb · May 24, 2005, 03:14 PM

Has 10.4.1 solved this issue?

barney ntd · May 24, 2005, 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by angelmb

Has 10.4.1 solved this issue?

No.

Todd Madson · May 24, 2005, 10:49 PM

No, sadly it has not. Unfortunately, this Mac is soon to fail utterly and am typing this on the
laptop they supply me for work. Sigh.