Quicktime pro for ibook, DVD regions, MSN, Word Processing

Where can I find the details of quick time pro? What are the differences?

All my friends use aMSN, apparently it's nearly fully compatible 🙂

For the other questions, sorry I do not know..

Hope I was at least a bit usefull.

Eddi

Hi,

Try something called VLC. It is a universal media player - will play just about anything (I think). Do a search on these pages you should be able to find a link to it. You may not need QT pro with this installed.

Rob

Actually VLC isn't aa very good program. If you use it knowing that you can't rely on it you should be fine, because my region is currently 1 and it doesnt seem to play many of my region 2 DVDs. You do get a set number of region changes (about 7, guessing) and then you need to get a hardware fix to set it back once you've used all your changes (which can be done 3 times i think). If you just want to use the one region though don't worry. All Apple laptops are fully capable of using any region regarless where you buy them from.

QuickTime Pro will not allow you to play any more types of files than the regular QuickTime Player will play. What the "Pro" option gives you is the editing and exporting features.

You can change your DVD region five times after the original setting. The VideoLAN Media Player does not rely on Apple's region manager and should play a DVD from any region without asking you to change. It is still beta software and it's being written by a school in France, so it's not like regular commercial software, it does have some rough edges. But, it's always played the Region 2 DVDs I have on my Region 1 PowerBook.

-Doug

NeoOffice is a port of OpenOffice for the mac, the gui is an aqua native.
OpenOffice requires the use of x11(unless the new 2.00 coming soon for Mac does away with this).

Both otherwise are the same.

I am having trouble with the DVD player on my powerbook. I have changed the region to play an American DVD and now it won't let me change the region back. It keeps coming up with an error 70001. I just want set it back to Region 2 and NEVER change it again.

This is the only topic I could find that had people talking about DVD player.

Please somebody help!!

Are you an administrator on your PowerBook? At what point, exactly, do you see the error message? After you've put in a DVD? At an authentication screen where it's asking you for your name and password? After you agree to change the region? Are you absolutely certain you do still have some changes left? How old is your PowerBook? Is it still under warranty or an AppleCare Protection Plan? It's possible it needs some kind of service.

You can always start a new topic of your own if you can't find the subject anywhere else yet. Since your subject is a bit different from the original topic, people who might be able to answer your question might not be looking inside this topic.

-Doug

Yes I am an administrator on the computer. The message comes up once I have agreed to change the Region. It says I still have one last change before it becomes set permanently. I have had my powerbook for about 2 months. I don't know exactly but I assume it is out of warranty.

I couldn't start a new topic. There was no link to do so.

David

Your PowerBook has a one year warranty against hardware defects. You also get 90 days of phone support for software questions. I have never heard of that error, it might be a good idea to call AppleCare Support before your 90 days are over, in case it turns out to be a software issue.

-Doug

Where do I get the number?

-David

http://www.apple.com/contact/phone_contacts.html

-Doug

Thank you for your help.

David