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Uh, I apologize, I guess you got me completely wrong. I didn't mean to imply that you should "work faster" (or so) on it. It just seems you are pretty knowledgeable in all things PPC; so I assumed that you'd know if someone got it runing.
Again, my apologies, I actually appreciate what you accomplish here
AFAIK nobody could make anything newer than 5.3 to work on 10.6 x86_64 (and situation is not much better for multiple later macOS). Qt is a badly written and horribly maintained software. Cocoa code cannot be built with gcc (for example, due to this), so we have to wait until this issue is fixed in gcc, and clang is broken altogether. An alternative, potentially, is X11 backend, which in principle could work, but it is broken for all macOS in all Qt versions, as I know (X11 add-ons might build, but I have not seen a standalone X11-based version for macOS). Qt5 also uses a borked build system, and to reach to fixing bugs in Qt itself it is needed to fix the former (I have a firm impression that it was designed to make life painful for anyone intending to sort out this mess). Qt6, thankfully, switched to CMake, but Qt6 assumes very recent SDK and uses Cocoa stuff from there, even when you try a Unix-like build. So I don’t know.
It is probably of little utility to fix an archaic version like 5.3 or 5.4, since pretty much everything requires a much newer Qt5. This leaves us with X11. And as of now, that does not work even on modern macOS, and perhaps was never tested by anyone.
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Just for the record, both MPlayer and mplayer-devel ports build and actually work on 10.6.8 powerpc. No X11 needed.
While far from working smoothly, as of now, I kinda got 2560 x 1440 streaming on powerpc in QMPlay2:
Folks, could someone, who has my PPCPorts installed, please, try the following?
(Deactivating is only needed if respective ports are installed and active, but won’t hurt anyway.)
`-b` is for installing a pre-built port, `-N` to skip asking about installing dependencies (of course they are needed).
Then launch the app and try to play something from YouTube.
What I wanna know:
1. Whether OpenGL2 works – it will be displayed in video format info window. If it does not work, there will be QPainter instead. (Choice can be made in playback settings.) This is expected to work.
2. Whether YouTube streaming works in HD or not. (I had weird inconsistency here: three systems played HD, one stubbornly played only 360p.)
3. If you have some HEVC file at hand, try playing that. This is expected to be broken, but I wanna confirm it is not just my issue.
Code:
sudo port sync
sudo port deactivate qmplay2 qt4-mac
sudo port -v -N -b install qt4-mac-devel
sudo port -v -N -b install qmplay2 +opengl`-b` is for installing a pre-built port, `-N` to skip asking about installing dependencies (of course they are needed).
Then launch the app and try to play something from YouTube.
What I wanna know:
1. Whether OpenGL2 works – it will be displayed in video format info window. If it does not work, there will be QPainter instead. (Choice can be made in playback settings.) This is expected to work.
2. Whether YouTube streaming works in HD or not. (I had weird inconsistency here: three systems played HD, one stubbornly played only 360p.)
3. If you have some HEVC file at hand, try playing that. This is expected to be broken, but I wanna confirm it is not just my issue.
Finally got around to trying to test this. I keep getting download errors because the application can't make a connection for some reason. I can retrieve YouTube listings in the search bar but can't download the videos. Would this be on my end?
Did you do what the port note says, making a symlink to yt-dlp? Without that it should not work. After doing that it is expected to work, so if it still does not, we need to look into the issue.
Code:
% port notes qmplay2
---> QMPlay2 has the following notes:
QMPlay2 expects to have yt-dlp in ~/.qmplay2/ and use it for YouTube playback. After installation you could make a
symlink to MacPorts-provided yt-dlp: ln -s /opt/local/bin/yt-dlp ~/.qmplay2/Okay it is working
OpenGL 2 hardware accel seems to work. This is a big boon for people who have cards that support this API. Leopard added more OGL 2 support (up to 2.1) for a few cards. All of the GPUs that came with the Late 2005 G5s should work (X1000 series, GeForce 7000 cards and maybe the 6600 I'll check).
EDIT: GeForce 6000-series seems to have OGL 2 support. I have seen benchmarks claiming that the 6600 and 6200 both were tested using OGL 2.1. I assume the 6800 cards are the same. The Radeon 9700 doesn’t have this seemingly so if an Aluminum PowerBook G4 user could please test this that would be great.
I have no video recording (I can get ScreenCaster or whatever it is called and do a quick demo perhaps?) but this 24FPS 1080p video using VP9 worked wonderfully.
Will try playing HEVC recording soon. I think I have a camera lying around here somewhere that can do it at a high bitrate.
OpenGL 2 hardware accel seems to work. This is a big boon for people who have cards that support this API. Leopard added more OGL 2 support (up to 2.1) for a few cards. All of the GPUs that came with the Late 2005 G5s should work (X1000 series, GeForce 7000 cards and maybe the 6600 I'll check).
EDIT: GeForce 6000-series seems to have OGL 2 support. I have seen benchmarks claiming that the 6600 and 6200 both were tested using OGL 2.1. I assume the 6800 cards are the same. The Radeon 9700 doesn’t have this seemingly so if an Aluminum PowerBook G4 user could please test this that would be great.
I have no video recording (I can get ScreenCaster or whatever it is called and do a quick demo perhaps?) but this 24FPS 1080p video using VP9 worked wonderfully.
Will try playing HEVC recording soon. I think I have a camera lying around here somewhere that can do it at a high bitrate.
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Awesome, thank you for checking.
P. S. Settings allow to switch between OpenGL and QPainter and set bit-perfect audio output for PortAudio plugin.
(The devel version has an ability to choose between h.264 / V9 / AV1 as a preferred format, but it is not yet in the ports.)
BTW, the bug affecting HEVC has been fixed, I believe, so if you use the latest version, it should work normally.
Apparently ffmpeg can:
There are a bunch of open-source programs on GH, some of which should compile, but I got no idea which is actually good and whether it is worth bothering with. If you find something which you think is substantially better than just using ffmpeg, let me know, I will look at that.