iBook G4 and DivX

rewes · October 26, 2003 5:48AM

I allmost ordered my new (and first) mac, but then it hit me.

I have an LAN at home that has two Windows XP PC´s connected to it. I have 250GB(NTFS) hardrive in the other and 80GB(NTFS) in the other. Is it possible to

1)Connect to those two PC´s through my iBook?

2)Watch DivX movies (on PC) on my mac?

3)Copy files to and from iBook?

pesi · October 26, 2003 6:26AM

1) physical connection is no problem. SAMBA should take care of the rest. (not sure about the NTFS thong though)

2) get VLC (video lan client). check versiontracker.com for it.

3) see number 1

mcq · October 26, 2003 9:38AM

You can read NTFS volumes, but I don't think the SAMBA protocol has the ability to write to an NTFS volume.

eds66 · October 26, 2003 8:34PM

You can read and write to NTFS volumes with Samba. I have windows 2000 and 2003 servers on the same network as my macs and I map NTFS shares to my macs all the time. Works like a charm. has worked well since Jaguar, but it now works superbly with Panther.

jeremiah rich · October 26, 2003 9:30PM

The only problem I have found is (I am networking to Windows 2000) that it saves the .DS_Store files in EVERY folder and is very annoying. Other than that, it's great.

aquatic · October 26, 2003 9:53PM

Um no. MPLayer is better than VLC for anything but DVD/VCD. For example Family Guy DVDs do not work at all in DVD Player, they have graphic glitches, but work fine in VLC. MPlayer has a better interface too.

gabid · October 26, 2003 10:31PM

There is also an official DivX codec available.

alcimedes · October 26, 2003 11:00PM

so

yes

yes

yes

rewes · October 27, 2003 12:31AM

Quote:

Originally posted by alcimedes

so

yes

yes

yes

Thats what I wanted to know, thanks

iBook G4 and DivX

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