DVD's and Leopard on a 1 GHz

I just ordered my first laptop off ebay a 1 GHz TiBook w/ stock hardrive and superdrive and 1 GB RAM and Leopard. So will I be able to play DVD's on this old computer ? I bought it basically for internet to go and wordprocessing but an occasional dvd on it wouldn't hurt.

DVD playback will be fine. It was (and still is) working fine on the original PowerBook G4 Titanium with as little as 400 MHz, so you don't need to be worried at all.

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HT1338 why wont my mac mini read snow leopard disc, it will read other dvd's and cd's

I have a mac mini since 2009 I recently got the snow leopard from apple but when I insert it it in the drive it just makes a few noises then ejects the disc. I have tried other dvd's and cd's and it reads them ok any help appreciated

It's possible the DVD is damaged, scratched and/or dirty. Check out KB Articles: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50448 How to Handle and Clean CD and DVD Discs and Troubleshooting Mac OS X installation from CD or DVD
Or you can request another DVD from Apple and/or get your $$$ back.
Your drive may need cleaning. Cleaning kits can be purchased from any store that sells CD/DVDs.

Burned DVD-Rs and DVD-RW's won't mount

Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 2 MB
Memory: 1.5 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM41.0055.B08
SMC Version (system): 1.1f5
Serial Number (system): W8619*U2P
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0016CB897C7A
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-846:
Firmware Revision: FB2U
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
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Hi there, I have been experiencing this problem on and off with various media types (originally I had issues burning to any disc - cd or dvd- I upgraded to Snow leopard, and the problem was fixed).
Now i'm having issues READING home-burned DVD-R's, DVD-RW's ( I avoid using DVD+R's). Commercial dvd's load fine. I can burn to blank DVD fine. I have cleaned the internal DVD drive with a VCD cleaner, and tried resetting the SMC (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964).
I use an LG dvd recorder at home. The discs I use are SONY DVD-R and DVD-RW. These play without error on the LG dvd player.
However when I try to load the burned discs into the mac, the drive makes a whirring sound and spits out the discs within 10 secs. These are new discs with no scratches etc. I have tried setting the CD&DVD system prefs differently (opening the dvd in disk utility, finder etc) to no avail. I tried both finalizing the discs and un-finalizing them on the DVD player.
This is driving me nuts as I am a film student and need to access my burned dvds!
note: I recently had my computer serviced in the last 6months as the hard-drive failed (I live in Christchurch, NZ and the computer was damaged in the Sept 2010 quake). The comp was relatively undamaged in the more recent Feb 22nd 2011 quake, but because of the shaking, could there have been substantial damage to the internal disc drive in this case??
any help would be greatly appreciated! Cheers
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• Avoid the top five disc-burning mistakes:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9005547/Avoidthe_top_five_disc_burningmistakes
Not sure what else may be the cause of the issue; but if there's
a chance of other hardware damage after an earthquake, it
may be wise to have someone check over the computer.
{I've asked this post be moved to the Intel-based iMac forum, yet the issue
is likely a generic one not limited to a build model vintage of computer. My
name's avatar is of the representative PowerPC iMac G4, of this forum area.}
For general disc burning, I use a small free-ware utility that makes it clear
what I may be getting; of course it makes quick work and the other methods
function correctly on my Macs... see http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/ and use
it with the setting for it to make discs that will work in Mac + PC. Worth a look.
Good luck & happy computing!

Can I run Tiger and Leopard on the same computer

Hi folks.
I've been meaning to install Leopard for ages but have never got round to it (I bought the retail box when it first came out). I have upgraded my RAM to 2GB and my hard drive to 320GB with no problems.
My upgraded hard drive has been partitioned into 2 equal parts of 160GB. These appear on desktop as Mackintosh HD1 and HD2. HD1 is the disk with all my files, music, OS etc and HD2 is empty
I have 2 bootable clones of my present system - one is on a 160GB external and the other is the original 80GB HD that I replaced.
My question is this - can I install Leopard on to my 160GB external HD, then clone it on to the empty HD2. If I do this would I be able to run both Tiger and Leopard on the same Macbook?
Is there any problems with this plan? Would I be able to transfer between the 2 OS and how do I install Leopard on the external drive. Is it just a case of inserting the Leopard DVD and choose the external drive as the target?
As usual thanks in advance
Del

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# New Leopard in the internal, Legacy cloned Tiger in the external.
# Split internal, one partition with Tiger, another with Leopard.
Leopard is backwardly compatible with older Macs, just make sure yours fulfills the minimum system requirements, both use the same filesystem format, so each can see the other. You can't run both at the same time, unless you purchase the server version of Leopard and run it virtualized. 99.9% of Firewire external HD's are bootable, some USB's are bootable but have to test first. You can choose which system to boot from by pressing the Option key at boot time, before the chime. Just make sure the external HDD is plugged in and turned on if that's where you want to boot from.
When I migrated my PBG4 from Panther to Tiger, got an external FW HDD, cloned Panther onto it, upgraded using Archive and Install, cleaned up, customized and tested it. When I was satisfied all was ok, cloned the original Panther onto another partition of the external HDD, wiped and tested for failure the internal HDD, then cloned the known good and tested Tiger into it. Only thing that died along the way was my old and ancient Photoshop v2.x, that refused to run on Tiger.

6.0.3 Error During Disc Initialization for both DVD+R and Disc Image - Help

I've been a mac user for a few years now, but I just bought a new MacBook, and my first superdrive! I'm all excited to test out the new hardware along with iDVD.
I've made a rather simple DVD setup and the first time through it was encoding for about an hour and then it gave an error message which I don't recall other than it mentioned QT7. I ran updater, no new updates that I needed and I tried again, and from then on I've been getting the Error During Disc Initialization message when burning to my DVD+Rs or when I try and save as a disc image (yes, I've deleted the encoding assets). I have about 20GB free on HDD, and I'm trying to burn approx. 100min of video. I've rebooted multiple times, and I've remade my project a couple times but no dice.
Any idears?
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What hardware do you have???
You didn't answer Sue's question about free space on
your start-up drive. You should have 20GB+ free.
What are you sending to iDVD?
Verbatim DVD-R, not DVD+R, are very reliable, unlike
TDK and Memorex.
Also look here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302925
I am running on a 2.0 ghz MacBook with a SuperDrive using Sony DVD+R. I will definitely pick up some Verbatim DVD-Rs though to see if that makes iDVD happy.
I have cleared up some room and now I have around 50GB free.
I am trying to make a DVD of two seperate .mp4s of a soccer game. I have 3 pictures and two buttons.

I'm unable to burn DVDs on my MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz, 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Hello all,
I'm unable to burn DVDs on my MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz, 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM running 10.4.8. When I go to burn a DVD I get one of two codes 0X8002006D, 0X80020022, why is that a 3,000 CPU cant burn a DVD. My Mac is total up to date with all software and firmware. I saw in the Discussions that I'm not the first person to have this issue but I don't see an answer from Apple, I'm pretty sure it not the DVDs (Memorex DVD-R 16X) because my ****** pc can burn them and it was a 100 pack that I used about 50 from it that I burn on both Macs and the ****** PC. I also have a Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 with 2.5 GB DDR SDRAM running 10.4.8 which is also unable to burn them and it also comes up with the same errors. I have not had this issue until I updated my Macs to 10.4.8, PLEASE HELP.
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IMac will not boot from Snow Leopard DVD or original Leopard disc!

Hey,
I am going mad! I am trying to update my iMac (with original Leopard installed) to Snow Leopard. Here is what I have tried:
Using the Snow Leopard DVD:
- A standard install: the disc ejects after about 15 minutes.
- Put another working DVD in and verified it in Disk Utility, all ok.
- Verified the internal hard drive in Disk Utility, all ok.
- Verfied the SL DVD, all ok.
- Decided to try a clean install, so backed up everything.
- Tried to boot from SL DVD by using the Utilities option, it ejects the disc at restart.
- Tried to force it to boot to the DVD by restarting and holding the C key, it ejects.
- Restart holding the Option key, it ejects.
- Restart holding the Ctrl, Alt and Option keys, ejects.
- Everytime it ejects and starts up normally.
- So I cleaned the disc, updated all the firmware, reset the NVRAM/PRAM via holding keys when restarting, and repaired disc permissions.
- Tried to force it to boot again, ejects.
- Tried to put the disc back in straight after it ejects with all the steps, still starts up normally.
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By now I am readying the noose...
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Possible scenarios:
1: The 10.6.3 SL retail disk is bad, it happens.
2: Your not using the 10.6.3 SL retail disk but one from another machine which doesn't have the drivers for that machine.
3: Your optical drive is funky or some other hardware issues.
4: Your trying to install 10.6 onto a PowerPC based Mac, no can do.
5: Your not using a wired keyboard for boot key commands, have some other hardware conflicts.
Possible solutions.
1: Copy the SL 10.6.3 disk using Disk Utility to another DVD, the error checking may resolve the original disk's issue.
http://www.brokenhomeboy.co.uk/pierow/blog/2011/10/make-a-bootable-backup-snow-l eopard-install-disc/
2: Make a SL bootable USB
http://www.maciverse.com/install-os-x-snow-leopard-from-usb-flash-drive.html
3: Call Apple for a new 10.6.3 disk (and make copies for backup before Apple discontinues selling it)
If your upgrading to 10.6 to get to 10.6.8 to upgrade to 10.7, be warned of this:
1: Your 10.5 software will not work in 10.7, no more Rosetta or PPC based code.
2: Your hardware will not qualify if it's a 32 bit Intel Core Duo, also you may experience slowdowns in performance over 10.6 (10.6 is the fastest OS X version for Intel Macs) in older Intel hardware (I suggest Early 2011 Mac's and later only for Lion)
3: Mountain Lion 10.8 is reportingly coming out this summer and will not run on a lot of older Intel based Mac's because of heftier graphics requirements.
4: 10.6 has the widest range of current avaialble software and drivers for third party hardware.
My advice, stick with 10.6.8 and stay there, buy a new Mountain Lion machine after this summer. Skip Lion completely.

DVD burning and finder

when i set up to burn a dvd, i open two windows. one has the photos i wish to burn, one has the dvd. i drag files from one to the other just fine. but when i want to remove a file from the dvd list and i drag it to the trash that file/folder is deleted from the original too.
i asked this question previously and a response said click on the arrow at the bottom right of the finder. well, there was a circular arrow at the bottom right, but it would not click. nothing happened when i left/right click, nothing.
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Hi
Thanks for the links.
Re available space, I have 58.6 Gigs free out of a formatted 74.4 Gigs (eMac 80 Gig HD) Also I have 1 Gig RAM. (My eMac is the 1.25 GHZ, USB 2, Superdrive model)
I do have BUFE as per the second link - checked in Terminal. But any mention of "Buffer Underrun Error" has not been in any of the error messages.
I will try and note the 2 or 3 error messages when they occur.
I also did try burning without any other applications running.
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Interestingly, my SuperDrive, Pioneer 107D, reports itself as more capable than Apple supports - Apple only supporting DVD-R.
As far as data type, I burn a few AIFF CD's for music playback, some Data CD's for backup and storage and the odd DVD also for data storage and backup. The latest attempt to back up the approx 2.2 Gigs in my Documents Folder is when I encountered the burning issues.
Upon reflection, I have never had more than 4x available in the DVD burning process despite the advertised 8x specs. Anything beyond 4x has always been greyed out.
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MacMini and Leopard

Well!
I recently bought a MacMini because the motherboard on my eMac allegedly croaked. The replacement cost wasn't much more than a new mini so I figured, "what the heck." Then, I upgraded to Mac OS 10.5 the day after it became available.
Since installing Mac's new Leopard, I am no longer able to use my Canon 8400F Scanner or CanoScan scanning software, Photoshop Elements, Alsoft Diskwarrior, Lacie SilverKeeper and IMSI TurboCad. The menu bar and title bars in Safari display vertical lines that make text illegible and, worse yet, Apple Mail randomly stops downloading some of my mail from Road Runner. Yep, it stumped Road Runner, too.
You know, I wish they had a method for more thorough testing at the store level, because I am not convinced there was anything wrong with that eMac motherboard. With all the software I'm going to have to repurchase, I'm thinking about taking the eMac off the junk shelf and setting it up on my desk, again. I'm almost certain, at this rate, that there won't be much difference in productivity.
Now, let's see: I'm on Social Security. I don't make a lot of bread, but I feel certain that I can set aside a small amount each month to upgrade my software before the Social Security System goes belly up . . . . maybe.
For the present, however, can someone out there please tell me how to uninstall Mac OS 10.5 and downgrade to Max OS 10.4 without making a bigger mess than I am in right now.
Thank you.

Well, Da Brew,
Unfortunately, now that a higher version of Mac OS X is installed, the only way to downgrade is to *Erase & Install*.
You'll have to back up all your data, but this is not a problem as you already do that anyway.
_Running both Tiger and Leopard on your Mini:_
Since you're erasing everything, why not split your internal HD into two partitions,
install Tiger on Volume 1 and Leopard on Volume 2?
Use the Tiger DVD to partition HD (menu Utilities > Disk Utility),
then install Tiger,
then install Leopard later on Volume 2.
Good luck!
Axel

DVD Player crashing leopard

Hi everyone.
I've been having huge problems with DVD's on my powerbook
Whenever i put a dvd in the drive, dvd player starts, and just as the disk starts to spool up and start playing the movie, the beach ball of death starts spinning and the computer freezes completely. I've tried several disks and the same happens everytime. It only started happening after I installed the 10.5.2 update, could this have something to do with it?
Any help much appreciated
Cheers, Dave.

What happens when you insert a non-video DVD, such as the Leopard Installation Disk?
What happens if you open System Preferences +CDs & DVDs+ pane, and for +When you insert a video DVD+ select IGNORE? If inserting a video DVD mounts to the desktop without the freeze up, try starting DVD Player manually. If it plays without freezing up, go back to System Preferences +CDs & DVDs+ pane, and for +When you insert a video DVD+, put it back to *Open DVD Player*.
See if the original problem is got resolved.

DVD.app and Sonica Theater no sound

Hello,
I have a problem with the DVD.app and Sonica Theater USB 7.1 sound card.
I get sound through the USB sound card with every application, Quicktime, VLC (while playing DVDs also), iTunes...but I cannot get sound through the USB card when using the OS X DVD.app. I've checked the preferences out and I find nothing, only a check-box enabling/disabling Dolby Dynamics...I've checked/unchecked this with no changes.
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Resolved the issue...it was an Unsanity pane (Windowshade X) that was causing a conflict. I looked in the crash report log and saw a bunch of Unsanity things, and temporarily disabled them...through process of elimination I narrowed it down to Windowshade.
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Re:tv recorded dvd rw and dvd-rw wont play anymore on my

Re:tv recorded dvd rw and dvd-rw wont play anymore on my

Like allen says, post this info...
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac.
Then click on More Info>Hardware and report this upto but not including the Serial#...
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 6 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.21f4
Then click on Hardware>Disk Burning & report what it says, like ...
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S222L:
Firmware Revision:          SB02
Interconnect:          ATAPI
Burn Support:          Yes (Unsupported)
Profile Path:          None
Cache:          2048 KB
Reads DVD:          Yes
CD-Write:          -R, -RW
DVD-Write:          -R, -RAM, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD:          Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD:          Yes
Write Strategies:          CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media:
Media Type:          DVD-RW
Blank:          Yes
Erasable:          Yes
Overwritable:          Yes
Appendable:          Yes

Re:tv recorded dvd rw and dvd-rw wont play anymore on my mac

Re:tv recorded dvd rw and dvd-rw wont play anymore on my mac

Like allen says, post this info...
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac.
Then click on More Info>Hardware and report this upto but not including the Serial#...
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 6 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.21f4
Then click on Hardware>Disk Burning & report what it says, like ...
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Firmware Revision:          SB02
Interconnect:          ATAPI
Burn Support:          Yes (Unsupported)
Profile Path:          None
Cache:          2048 KB
Reads DVD:          Yes
CD-Write:          -R, -RW
DVD-Write:          -R, -RAM, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD:          Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD:          Yes
Write Strategies:          CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media:
Media Type:          DVD-RW
Blank:          Yes
Erasable:          Yes
Overwritable:          Yes
Appendable:          Yes

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how can i run snow leopard and leopard in my mac?

First, your Mac model must be able to run Leopard. Second, you would have to partition your hard drive to create a second volume then install Leopard on the new volume using a Leopard installer DVD.

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