I have purchased an Lacie Internal DVD-R model E-IDE. I also purchased iLife, which includes iDVD 3.

I can't open iDVD. Nor can I play a DVD movie. If I try to open DVD Player, I get the warning 'DVD Player has encountered a serious error. The current machine or system configuration is not support'

Although both Apple & LaCie say the this is not supported hardware, my reseller says I works.

My Mac does see it as a DVD-R drive, I can use it as a CD and burn CD through Toast Lite.

I am running OS 10.2.3 and iDVD 3.

Any ideas would be greatful

As I have been told. Any third party DVD burner is not supported by Apples IDVD.
Any other thoughts?
Is this correct?

There are hacks out there, but you'd have to ask around to see if someone has it, or are able to point you in the direction of the best site for it.

Cheers,

RtC

Is the drive set to CS (Cable Select)?

Go back and talk to your Reseller.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by BIg Fish:
Although both Apple & LaCie say the this is not supported hardware, my reseller says I works.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Your Reseller seems to know something that Apple and LaCie don't...

See if the Reseller support HACKS!
I doubt it.

As refered to in this thread:
iDVD Alternatives - ehMac thread

Hacks are not the issue, iDVD will work with any internally installed DVD-R drive, it can't tell the differance between an Apple drive or any other drive.

Apple doesn't support ANYTHING that they don't include in the box.

The issue is iDVD 3 having some minor installer issues, there are difficultues even in machines that have original Apple drives.

Try to copy the iDVD.pkg file to your hard drive and installing from there and make sure you are running Quicktime 6.1

What mechanism is the Lacie drive based on?

I found the answer. My G4 has 2 video cards for dual monitors. I had placed my monitor on the bottom video card. This would display every program but not iDVD. Fixing the problem was simple changing my monitor to the other video card. It only took 3 days to figure out.

Thanks