How is my DVD drive working when it isn't supposed to?

definitely not a complaint, but I recently put some spare parts from upgraded machines in my beige, an NEC superdrive (unsupported for iApps, but bootable in 9 & X), an old rage card WITHOUT the DVD decoder, and a 450MHz processor pulled from a B & W. runs Jaguar now beautifully. I put in a DVD the other day to see if VLC might be able to play a DVD since I'd heard that without the DVD decoder and without being booted into 9 the beige G3's just wouldn't work with Apple's DVD player in X. by default the DVD launched Apple DVD and it played, perfectly.
is there a decoder maybe in the drive itself or some other explanation for how this is working? like I said, NOT a complaint, just confused (in a good way).

Yes, playing DVDs with the on-board Rage video is a surprise. While Apple moved the DVD decoding into OS 9 software (Altivec not required), supposedly a video card equivalent to the Apple Rage 128 (16 MB VRAM), found in B&W G3s and beyond, was required for the Apple DVD Player to function properly. For the Beige G3s that meant a Rage Orion or better. But, if it works off the on-board video, more power to you.
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