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  1. B S Magnet

    YT on PPC: keeping YouTube running & accessible on PowerPC Macs

    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...
  2. alex_free

    PowerPC Media Center 7.2.6 Intel Edition For Tiger Comes With One Of The Best Video Players For Intel Tiger

    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...
  3. alex_free

    Weird YouTube Changes, State of Age-Gated Videos, And PPCMC7 Becoming The Only YouTube Live Stream Method On PowerPC Macs?

    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...