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12-11-2021 - PPCMC 7.2.6 - YouTube/Twitch Streaming, Downloading, File Conversion, Web Interface, & More For Panther-Leopard PPC/Intel
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I’m honestly so confused how this even happened, how does one accidentally change the default shell to tcsh?! Is this even the problem?
10.0-10.2 used tcsh as the default shell. Apple switched to bash in Panther for all new accounts, but it kept tcsh as your shell if you upgraded.
I can't believe it, I knew something was off when I saw TCSH! Thank you @Strategia, I think I force PPCMC 7 to use bash in a future update to avoid this edge case, didn't even know this was possible.
Nothing like hearing Gordon Ramsay scream at poeple on an iMac g3
I wonder whether your iMac has the power to stream 360P?
Try this script if you want to find out?
Something strange happened when I was using 7.2.3 last night. I was on my 2006 MBP and I downloaded the Leopard version of 7.2.3 from the Garden. I was getting an error, something about pageURL, when trying to stream via QuickTime. At some point I clicked edit instead of okay and Safari launched along with a script editor. I tried to read the script to figure out what the problem was, but I didn't know what to look for so I closed the script editor and forgot to close Safari. Here's where things get weird. I tried streaming through QuickTime again and Opera randomly popped up. I don't have Opera installed on this Mac, yet there it was. It was trying to play the video in browser, but kept asking to approve certificates for various youtube and google domains. I started approving them at first until I remembered that I never installed Opera on this Mac, so I force quit Opera and did a search of my drive to see if this Opera had installed any files onto my drive and I couldn't find any. I then updated Youtube-dl and when I tried streaming again, it worked with no Opera in sight. In case this random Opera did install itself onto my Leopard setup and I just couldn't find it, I wiped the MBP's drive the next morning and restored Leopard via a backup. I used a copy of 7.2.3 I had downloaded to my Sawtooth about a week or so ago and haven't encountered the randomly appearing Opera since.
Has anyone else ever experienced this randomly appearing Opera browser?
Has anyone else ever experienced this randomly appearing Opera browser?
Yes, I've experienced that - I think it was when I had the full version of Adobe Creative Suite installed - assumed it was a lite version installed for web proofing?
Of course if you don't have CS3 installed then the mystery is deeper....
I do have CS3 installed. It’s the standard version with Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat. I have After Effects CS3 installed too, but that was a standalone installer.
I'm having an issue getting ffplay to work on my computer. On the shell, I get an output of:
I was sure to download the right version for Tiger, and I set it in my Applications folder. I don't know if I missed any steps, but any help would be appreciated!
dyld: Library not loaded: /Applications/PPCMC.app/lib/libSDL2-2.0.0.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/PPCMC.app/bin/ffplay
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/Applications/PPCMC.app/lib/libSDL2-2.0.0.dylib: incompatible cpu-subtypeI was sure to download the right version for Tiger, and I set it in my Applications folder. I don't know if I missed any steps, but any help would be appreciated!
This is a know bug on the current version when run on a G3 - until a new version is realeased why not use 7.2.1 - remember to do the update youtube-dl option.
Very good news fellow PowerPC enthusiasts. FFmpeg/FFplay has finally fixed altivec optimizations in version 4.4. Every 4.3.x release has been broken, and since 4.3 came out I've had to use the 4.2.4 altivec related code.
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The next version of PPCMC7 is coming along very well, with some surprise features many of you will enjoy... However I do want to bring something to your attention. Me and the original author of PPCMC have been in contact since essentially the beginning of PPCMC 7 in February of 2020. Recently, this conversation happened on the MacintoshGarden page:
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by alexfree- 2021, May 4 - 2:49am
Unfortunately I have not, this is a huge concern to me. The age gate stuff keeps breaking, being fixed on YouTube-dl updates, then breaking again. The next version of PPCMC 7 will use git to update to the bleeding edge commits of YouTube-dl, which not only will speed up tremendously how long it takes to execute YouTube-dl since it doesn’t need to be decompressed but also allow more frequent changes to be applied before they are even in official versions!
by OpenSourceMac- 2021, April 29 - 9:09pm
Alex: have you found any rate around the age-gate/login issue?
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In the end however, this is a huge issue as of now. If youtube-dl can't consistently fix this I'm not sure what else I can do. PPCMC7 brings everthing needed to run youtube-dl to PPC macs, but I have no idea how to improve youtube-dl itself to fix this issue.... Still broken as of now, I want to watch some quote NSFW videos!
Youtube-dl, your our only hope...
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by alexfree- 2021, May 4 - 2:49am
Unfortunately I have not, this is a huge concern to me. The age gate stuff keeps breaking, being fixed on YouTube-dl updates, then breaking again. The next version of PPCMC 7 will use git to update to the bleeding edge commits of YouTube-dl, which not only will speed up tremendously how long it takes to execute YouTube-dl since it doesn’t need to be decompressed but also allow more frequent changes to be applied before they are even in official versions!
by OpenSourceMac- 2021, April 29 - 9:09pm
Alex: have you found any rate around the age-gate/login issue?
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In the end however, this is a huge issue as of now. If youtube-dl can't consistently fix this I'm not sure what else I can do. PPCMC7 brings everthing needed to run youtube-dl to PPC macs, but I have no idea how to improve youtube-dl itself to fix this issue.... Still broken as of now, I want to watch some quote NSFW videos!
Youtube-dl, your our only hope...
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Testing tidbit of interest for you, @alex_free :
Tried running a H.264 download of a YT clip with PPCMC 7.2.3 on a build of Snow Leopard on PPC (Build 10A96, which is more similar to 10.5.8 than the Intel-only 10.6.0). What I can say is PPCMC gets as far as the
Although SL-PPC is not in PPCMC’s mandate, I thought it was worth trying on SL-PPC for the fun of it.
[EDIT to add: I was successful with getting PPCMC to send YT clips over to QuickTime (in this case, 7.6.4) and letting the clips play from there (with no problems for SD content). The downside with this experimental SL-PPC testing setup is QT “Export…” pulldowns cannot be clicked/selected for saving as, say, an x264/H.264 file locally… which would have been my workaround for my inability to use PPCMC to download H.264 clips in highest quality setting available (i.e., the first half of this comment from last day).]
Tried running a H.264 download of a YT clip with PPCMC 7.2.3 on a build of Snow Leopard on PPC (Build 10A96, which is more similar to 10.5.8 than the Intel-only 10.6.0). What I can say is PPCMC gets as far as the
[youtube] [yt_id]: Downloading webpage and then just holds there without starting the downloading of video and audio DASH streams.Although SL-PPC is not in PPCMC’s mandate, I thought it was worth trying on SL-PPC for the fun of it.
[EDIT to add: I was successful with getting PPCMC to send YT clips over to QuickTime (in this case, 7.6.4) and letting the clips play from there (with no problems for SD content). The downside with this experimental SL-PPC testing setup is QT “Export…” pulldowns cannot be clicked/selected for saving as, say, an x264/H.264 file locally… which would have been my workaround for my inability to use PPCMC to download H.264 clips in highest quality setting available (i.e., the first half of this comment from last day).]
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Interesting, thanks for the test. I wonder if these same issues happen with Intel & Rosetta?Testing tidbit of interest for you, @alex_free :
Tried running a H.264 download of a YT clip with PPCMC 7.2.3 on a build of Snow Leopard on PPC (Build 10A96, which is more similar to 10.5.8 than the Intel-only 10.6.0). What I can say is PPCMC gets as far as the[youtube] [yt_id]: Downloading webpageand then just holds there without starting the downloading of video and audio DASH streams.
Although SL-PPC is not in PPCMC’s mandate, I thought it was worth trying on SL-PPC for the fun of it.
[EDIT to add: I was successful with getting PPCMC to send YT clips over to QuickTime (in this case, 7.6.4) and letting the clips play from there (with no problems for SD content). The downside with this experimental SL-PPC testing setup is QT “Export…” pulldowns cannot be clicked/selected for saving as, say, an x264/H.264 file locally… which would have been my workaround for my inability to use PPCMC to download H.264 clips in highest quality setting available (i.e., the first half of this comment from last day).]
That’s really weird it can’t download, shouldn’t be any different then streaming to QuickTime IMO.
Yah, it appears python3.6 just sits there indefinitely on the term window. I left it alone for about a half-hour, just to be sure.
PPCMC 7 Website
v7.2.4 Release On GitHub
PPCMC 7 Macintosh Garden Page
Edit: N/A, update pulled due to bug, recompiling new 7.2.5 builds that will be out tomorrow sorry
PPCMC 7 now uses the latest git to update to individual commits of YouTube-dl, meaning you'll be able to access the latest changes/bug fixes before they are even packaged in a new YouTube-dl release. This also means you can use git in the PPCMC shell option of the main app. I even used it to update PPCMC7 itself and clone my website on Mac OS X Panther, as pictured below:
7.2.4 - 5/26/2021
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug which made QuickTime streaming not update to use a new URL.
Fixed a bug where file conversions would have a higher bitrate then the option implied the limit was.
Fixed a bug where G3/604 Macs would crash when using FFMPEG related features.
Removed the Leopard optimized version to simplify and speed up future development since Panther_SDL2 does NOT build on Leopard correctly (RUNS fine on Leopard if built on Tiger), just use the Tiger version on Leopard for right now.
Fixed the download any url option to use the get_url function.
New Features
Removed highlighting of the folders PPCMC generates per user request.
Changed youtube-dl to execute the main .py script directly with no decompression for a performance and speed boost.
Changed youtube-dl to update to the latest git commit on GitHub directly so users can get new features and updates without waiting for it to be packaged into a release.
Significantly optimized and cleaned up how real youtube-dl URLs are retrieved in the Applescript code by condensing the many multiple functions into just one.
Added a new "CD Options" category to the main menu, with the following sub options: "Burn Audio CD", "Burn Data CD Or Mixed Mode Data+Audio CD", "Burn Folder Of WAVs To Audio CD", "Convert And Burn Folder Of Media Files To Audio CD", "Rip Audio CD", "Rip Data CD Or Mixed Mode Data+Audio CD". All of which use the newly included cdrdao.
New Updates To Bundled Software
Updated FFMPEG/FFPLAY/FFPROBE to the latest version 4.4 and removed altivec patches since they are no longer needed.
Updated the internal certificate to the latest 4-13 version extracted by the cURL project on April 13th 2021.
Updated OpenSSL to the latest version 1.1.1k.
Updated Curl to the latest version 7.61.1 and removed the min macosx version min patch since it is no longer needed.
New Bundled Software
Added cdrdao v1.2.0.
Added the latest version of git v2.31.1
Added the latest version 0.29.2 of pkg-config.
v7.2.4 Release On GitHub
PPCMC 7 Macintosh Garden Page
Edit: N/A, update pulled due to bug, recompiling new 7.2.5 builds that will be out tomorrow sorry
PPCMC 7 now uses the latest git to update to individual commits of YouTube-dl, meaning you'll be able to access the latest changes/bug fixes before they are even packaged in a new YouTube-dl release. This also means you can use git in the PPCMC shell option of the main app. I even used it to update PPCMC7 itself and clone my website on Mac OS X Panther, as pictured below:
7.2.4 - 5/26/2021
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug which made QuickTime streaming not update to use a new URL.
Fixed a bug where file conversions would have a higher bitrate then the option implied the limit was.
Fixed a bug where G3/604 Macs would crash when using FFMPEG related features.
Removed the Leopard optimized version to simplify and speed up future development since Panther_SDL2 does NOT build on Leopard correctly (RUNS fine on Leopard if built on Tiger), just use the Tiger version on Leopard for right now.
Fixed the download any url option to use the get_url function.
New Features
Removed highlighting of the folders PPCMC generates per user request.
Changed youtube-dl to execute the main .py script directly with no decompression for a performance and speed boost.
Changed youtube-dl to update to the latest git commit on GitHub directly so users can get new features and updates without waiting for it to be packaged into a release.
Significantly optimized and cleaned up how real youtube-dl URLs are retrieved in the Applescript code by condensing the many multiple functions into just one.
Added a new "CD Options" category to the main menu, with the following sub options: "Burn Audio CD", "Burn Data CD Or Mixed Mode Data+Audio CD", "Burn Folder Of WAVs To Audio CD", "Convert And Burn Folder Of Media Files To Audio CD", "Rip Audio CD", "Rip Data CD Or Mixed Mode Data+Audio CD". All of which use the newly included cdrdao.
New Updates To Bundled Software
Updated FFMPEG/FFPLAY/FFPROBE to the latest version 4.4 and removed altivec patches since they are no longer needed.
Updated the internal certificate to the latest 4-13 version extracted by the cURL project on April 13th 2021.
Updated OpenSSL to the latest version 1.1.1k.
Updated Curl to the latest version 7.61.1 and removed the min macosx version min patch since it is no longer needed.
New Bundled Software
Added cdrdao v1.2.0.
Added the latest version of git v2.31.1
Added the latest version 0.29.2 of pkg-config.
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PPCMC 7.2.5 was just uploaded to the Macintosh Garden page, website and GitHub currently being updated.
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So, uh, I tested the PPCMC 7.2.5 m4a download function on Snow Leopard for PowerPC (Build 10A96), much as I tried (unsuccessfully) with PPCMC 7.2.3, and this is what happened:
IIIIIIT WORRRRRRRRKS YUSSSSSSS
Anyway, that’s all I got. Thoughts?
Epic! V7.2.3 was built on Leopard, and for what ever reason that made FFplay and FFmpeg crash on G3’s.
I ended up upgrading my Mac mini G4 to Tiger awhile ago. And just by building on Tiger, that fixed that issue, and I guess now the Snow Leopard issue.
I don’t follow the logic of how building on an older OS makes it work on a newer one but I will not question it, v7.2.5 was built using a rewritten build system as well. That’s awesome. Quite ironic I just updated the documentation to say it doesn’t work on Snow Leopard.