[geeks] Princeton Univ. Surplus haul today...

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 12:32:33PM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:

> Someone else probably mentioned it, but there is a utility that I can't
> remeber the name of that you will need to run to convince the consumer
> Apple software to use a non-Apple drive.  Third party software and DVD
> Studio apparently don't require the patch.

Apple licensed the MPEG-2 codecs for use on machines with internal
DVD drives. If there is no internal DVD drive, the installer simply does
not install the codecs and Apple DVD player.

I don't know what the latest version of iDVD, which costs money will do.

Geoff.
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