MacOS 10.3.5 -- error when trying to play a DVD

On or about 9/30/04 10:16 AM, thus spake "PGorny" <gornyuni-oldenburg.de>:

> After several years of problem-free use of DVDs now an error message appears
> when I try to open a DVD on my G4 PowerBook (Mac OS X 10.3.5).
>
>>>> An initialization error occurred - The video driver cannot play the medium
>>> due to insufficient video storage space. [-70026]<<
>
> Any explanation?

I'm guessing you (Peter) have your PowerBook display set to Millions
of colors, and perhaps you have an external monitor attached, right? Just
set it to Thousands of colors and all will be well. The same is true of
Chess.app, by the way; it starts up blank (i.e. black) if you have not
enough video memory because you're using too many colors and too many
monitors. m.

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I'm guessing you (Peter) have your PowerBook display set to Millions of colors, and perhaps you have an external monitor attached, right? Just set it to Thousands of colors and all will be well. The same is true of Chess.app, by the way; it starts up blank (i.e. black) if you have not enough video memory because you're using too many colors and too many monitors. m.

Thanks Matt -- You hit the point: I HAD set the G4-monitor to milions of colors and a 19" monitor to thousands!! It was sufficient to change the number of colors and I could play the DVDs again....

Peter

Using my iMac G4, OS 10.4.3, I get an initialization error -5000 when trying to play a DVD. I tried changing from millions of colors to thousands and it didn't help. What's up? The DVD plays on my G4 laptop, with millions of colors!

Jane