YT on PPC: keeping YouTube running and accessible on PowerPC Macs
First posted: 24 March 2023
Last updated: 1 April 2023
OVERVIEW
It’s simple, even if the fixes have to be updated regularly by the vintage Macs and retro-computing community: a place to file together all the ways of accessing...
I just released PPCMC 7.2.6, and I have made the first ever native Intel build of PowerPC Media Center 7. I had to figure out myself how to fix FFmpeg to compile on Mac OS X 10.4 Intel (PowerPC was just fine). And then... I got all x86 assembly optimizations enabled in the FFmpeg/FFplay and...
PPCMC 7 is now 1.5 years old, and has seen 25 updates since version 7.0.
Recently it has come to my attention that something weird is going on with using VLC and QuickTime to watch YouTube livestreams. Apparently Google changed something, I think it’s to do with the codec/format somehow...