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Authored by: momerath on Jul 03, '02 03:10:14PM

The reason that vlc can have screenshots taken is that it uses only software to decode it. (this is also why it runs quite slow on older machines.) Apple's DVD player uses hardware to decode it, and apparently ATI's hardware decoding prevents screenshots from being taken.



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Authored by: hoytt on Jul 03, '02 07:03:33PM

Apple has been using software decoding for DVDs since the first generation AGP G4s and iMacs with DVD ROM. OS 9 came with DVD player 2.2 while I had DVD player 1.4 for my B&W G3.
The first DVD player in OS X only supported AGP macs and did not support B&W G3s and Yikes G4s. All Macs since the Sawtooth G4 have software decoding DVD.



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