Awesome and it does! Plays back perfectly I should add! Downloaded on my G4 733 and played on my iBook
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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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Awesome and it does! Plays back perfectly I should add! Downloaded on my G4 733 and played on my iBook
Wow I am excited! 500MHZ isn’t too far from 300MHZ. Thanks.
No problem and yeah! I was really happy to see it playing at full FPS
No problem and yeah! I was really happy to see it playing at full FPS
Im gonna mess around with 720p and see if I can get it working at a lower bitrate on my Mac mini.
It was about 80% speed when I first tried with full bitrate of a best quality download at 720p. I’m thinking I can slightly lower the video bitrate to about 600kbs (which is higher then any 480p video I’ve transcoded at best quality) and it’ll work.
Ok, cool! It would be neat to get HD video on my 733MHz G4, but that probably won't happen xD
Should do, this is 1024 x 426 (to fit the screen exactly) MPEG4 at 1500kbps on my 800Mhz G4 iMac/OS9/Present Movie - your Powermac benchmarks higher than my iMac and has L3 cache.
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Downloaded the latest PPMC on my Sawtooth and tried out the m4a download feature. It works great! Tried out the QuickTime 6 option for downloading a video with the intention of playing the video on OS 9 and I got an error message about not having the ac1 (or maybe it was av1) codec. The download and conversion completed anyway, so I decided to try opening the file in Leopard and got an error message saying that there was something wrong with the file.
This will be fixed in the next update no worries. I’m going to have it block av01.
Version 7.0.7 is out! Tons of new features. AV01 blocked, converting of existing MP4 files, the ability to download any URL (supporting up to TLS v1.3) and more.
Download 144p MP4 & Download 144p MP4 For QuickTime 6 options have been added in the latest version 7.0.8.
I just tested the QT6 encoding of a pre-existing file and it plays! Not at full FPS, but that's probably due to the file I chose (a downloaded television show). I can send you the info dialogue from QT6 if you'd like, just so you know what it reports on the movie I'm playing.
I just tested the QT6 encoding of a pre-existing file and it plays! Not at full FPS, but that's probably due to the file I chose (a downloaded television show). I can send you the info dialogue from QT6 if you'd like, just so you know what it reports on the movie I'm playing.
Great! The resolution probably just has to be a little lower. Next update will include an additional menu before conversion for selecting resolution.
Downloaded 7.0.8 and downloading for QuickTime 6 works! The downloaded video plays back perfectly on both my Sawtooth under Leopard and my iBook G3 under OS 9. Video conversion and downloading URLs works great for me too (both features tested out using the Sawtooth).
Works really well. I was able to download a 43 minute stream to mp3. I noticed that iTunes won't let me fast forward past the 4 minute mark but It will play to the end if I let it.
I find the videos I want to watch using TenFiveTube, copy and paste the URL into PPCMC and voila.
I find the videos I want to watch using TenFiveTube, copy and paste the URL into PPCMC and voila.
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I had time today to boot the G5 back in to Leopard. This works really well. Great job. I used @fourbirds method and used TFT as the YT browser for my testing.
Cheers
Cheers
I use Safari. Although kind of broken it works well enough to get URLs for the most part and is very fast.
It should give you Copy Link Location - which works in the same way.
Yea, I used TFT before I started working on PPCMC 7.
Honestly haven’t tried Leopard webkit, mostly because I don’t have any need to run anything newer then Tiger right now.
But I’d definitely choose Safari over Ten Four Fox for the sole purpose of getting YouTube video links, every time. It’s just as fast as it was back in the day for the most part.
Safari on Tiger still loads YouTube fine, on Panther it’s quite broken now (which happened literally last month as it used to work just as well on Safari 1.0), so on Panther google is what I mainly use to find links.