DVD MatshitaD-2 LF-D110 Do I need?/how to find driver for, Video..

I can open/read Cd's ok. Music >itunes ok.
But when I put in movie DVD the drive runs 30 sec. and the ejects. Does not show on desktop.
Have looked in applications and find nothing that seems like for this hardware.
Have tried several searches on Web and @ Panasonic and find no listings for mac, only one for windows.
Have tried to find driver on this Apple site and cannot or don't know where to look or how. Tried search bar.
Takes me forever to figure out how to get back into forum, I signed up some time ago. Not easy to find.
I read some post and they said drivers are not listed for Mac for Matshita, just windows, and may/not work 100%.
PCI ACARD 6260, ATY,Rage 128, Firewire 400, Mem. 256,128,128,64MB.
MatshitaD-2 LF-D110 (this is as shown in about this mac)
Some video (youtube) plays smooth(Quicktime), some starts and stops eventhough download is ahead of play in bar. Some (Microsofttrainsimul.) is stoppy, and pixed in full screen.
Would like to try to get DVD drive to read to see if can play movies, or do I need to look for a used G5 and with what min. specs.
I would like to know where to go to learn more about mac hardware etc., something to read?
Thank You.
primative
p.s. I had a Sony DVDRWdrive in but took it out because trouble with music cd's, would not read both channels completely/distorted.

"Would like to try to get DVD drive to read to see if can play movies, or do I need to look for a used G5 and with what min. specs"
Is the optical drive connected to the onboard bus and not to the Acard controller card? That card may not support removable media devices. A 400 MHz G3 can handle DVD movie playback, provided that you use a supported program for doing so. If you've replaced the Apple/OEM drive and Apple's DVD Player and iMovie don't recognize the new one, you should try a different player program (try "VLC"). I've watched movies on older beige G3s with 266 MHz processors and Radeon (32 MB or 64 MB) graphics cards, using a patched version of (pre-OS X) Apple DVD Player 2.7. You need an OS X player program that recognizes your Matshita drive and you should probably upgrade the PCI graphics card to something newer than the Apple/ATI Rage 128 card with 16 MBs of SGRAM. Newer cards have faster GPUs and DDR memory, which will make a noticeable difference in overall performance.
As far as streaming web video, your G3's hardware is limited, even with a high-speed internet connection. Uninterrupted, unpixelated playback may not always be possible, because there are other variables that you can't control.

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