Blue & White G3. DVD question.
Okay, background. Bought a B & W G3. Neat. But not with the DVD player. 
not neat. It had a rage 128 graphic card on it. Okay, I swapped out a dvd player from another blue and white G3 (which HAD had the dvd when ordered). Now I have a dvd drive right? But no way of decoding. (right?) Okay, so now I got the rage 128 addon card (the dvd decoder) and put it in my system. Now I could watch dvds. (yeah!). Okay, so now i upgraded to OS 9. (no biggie here). Okay, NOW THE TRICKY PART. I got a DVD-RAM drive from a G4. I stuck that sucker in instead of the DVD-ROM drive and it still works (ie, I can read cdroms, and play dvds, and presumably burn DRVRAM disks). Now the big question. I upgraded to OS 9.1 and ran the software update control panel. It tries to download a new dvd player (2?) and it won't let it install. Is the new version used for systems that only software decode? Will I need that eventually or am I set with the 'final product' for what I have? Thanks for your help in advance.
not neat. It had a rage 128 graphic card on it. Okay, I swapped out a dvd player from another blue and white G3 (which HAD had the dvd when ordered). Now I have a dvd drive right? But no way of decoding. (right?) Okay, so now I got the rage 128 addon card (the dvd decoder) and put it in my system. Now I could watch dvds. (yeah!). Okay, so now i upgraded to OS 9. (no biggie here). Okay, NOW THE TRICKY PART. I got a DVD-RAM drive from a G4. I stuck that sucker in instead of the DVD-ROM drive and it still works (ie, I can read cdroms, and play dvds, and presumably burn DRVRAM disks). Now the big question. I upgraded to OS 9.1 and ran the software update control panel. It tries to download a new dvd player (2?) and it won't let it install. Is the new version used for systems that only software decode? Will I need that eventually or am I set with the 'final product' for what I have? Thanks for your help in advance.
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1.x only supports hardware decoding