display mirroring with OSX/beige G3 AV

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beige G3/300 with the Apple A/V card (composite and s-video in/out)

I recently felt like tinkering and pulled out my old beige G3 and begun by putting OS X 10.1.2 on it. That was a whole pain in and of itself, but I finally coerced into finishing the install. Please forgive me- I've been in Wintel land for the past 2 years. Being a complete newbie to OS X, I now have a few specific questions:

- How do I activate video mirroring in OS X? When I go to the Display settings all I see is resolution and color depth. (In 9.2.2 the 'TV Mirroring 2.3.1' control strip module gave me control over mirroring function) Do I need a certain extension for this, or should I go pick up a newer version of OS X, or is this hopeless on this old box?

- Along those lines, what generic version of OS X includes the Apple DVD Player? (The 10.1.2 build I have doesn't seem to include it) I have a DVDROM from a scrapped G4 that I've put in this machine and want to try to get that working.

That's all for now... Thanks in advance.

I get those two items resolved and hopefully I'll be able to watch the world's choppiest DVD playback mirrored onto my crappy television via a crummy Radio Shack RF modulator. sweet...
 
I'm pretty sure that A/V board is not supported in OS X at all. THIS ARTICLE has been updated fairly recently, and only mentions OS 9 functions.
hint: boot into OS 9 to view video on a TV.
 
DeltaMac said:
I'm pretty sure that A/V board is not supported in OS X at all. THIS ARTICLE has been updated fairly recently, and only mentions OS 9 functions.
hint: boot into OS 9 to view video on a TV.
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Durn. ok. I thought it might turn out to be futile. One of the reasons I never went to X in the first place- Beige G3 just outside of Apple's OS X support.

The mirroring works fine in 9.2.2. If the card IS supported in OS X, I would see some mirroring options in the 'Display' settings, yea?
 
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