DVD RAM installation

Hi everyone,
I have a BW G3 (listed below) running 10.2.x
I have a couple of questions: first of all, I just got a DVD RAM drive off a guy in town here for $5. I know the guy, so it's a good drive, he said it's in fine working condition. It's the Apple Model #LF-D111A
Anyway, I haven't attempted installing it yet - it's a simple IDE drive, but I have a couple of questions before I do.
First of all, he pulled this unit out of a G4, and it's listed as a G4 unit, but I read online that it can be installed in a BW G3 as long as you have the "decoder card" whatever that is! So first question: What is the decoder card? Do I have it? How do I get it? Is it worth it?
My second question is I plan to install OS Tiger on my system after I get the DVD RAM drive installed. Do you forsee any problems with this installation? Will I have to reinstall my program files?
Thanks so much!
Tim

The decoder module piggybacked to the B&W G3's OEM ATI Rage 128 graphics card. The earliest versions (1.x) of the Apple DVD Player program relied on hardware (MPEG-2) decoding, for viewing DVD movies. By the time that OS X shipped with newer Macs having faster CPUs, the Apple DVD Player program was able to use software decoding, not requiring the hardware decoder.

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