Any app request for PowerPC software devlopment?

[ppcfanforever1]

Originally Posted by Lil Chillbil

Have you tried mactubes?

Yeah but with qt player its 1080p is far frim flawlesses, 720p has enough problems.

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Originally Posted by PowerPCMacMan

This works great on my G5 Quad.. but I do understand that Lower G5's and G4's of course want to view 720p and 1080p also. Someone should develop an app similar to coreplayer which will do the same thing.

So long as one has the right codecs, its even possible for the G4 to play and stream 720p or 1080p.

A blu-ray player would also be nice.

Yes agreed dude, my old g5 i had could handle it but theses just cant make it as is.

[Wildy]

To get anywhere near the speed of CorePlayer you will need to know PowerPC assembly - or at least be familiar with Altivec extensions - simple as.

[Lil Chillbil]

Originally Posted by Wildy

To get anywhere near the speed of CorePlayer you will need to know PowerPC assembly - or at least be familiar with Altivec extensions - simple as.

At this point I don't think that we should hold our breath for anything close to coreplayer. Sadly these machines are turning into servers (Personal file servers I mean not web servers) and kids toys

[PowerPCMacMan]

Depends on your usage.. My G5 Quad is a workhorse.. far from being a "toy". The Pismo, now thats my little toy right there. OS 9 is a toy OS for my own nostalgia.

The what ifs... what if PowerPC promised a stable and stronger roadmap for Apple back in 2004-2005? While the move to Intel was smart, I think IBM could have done a lot more to help and bring Apple the 3.0 Ghz G5 it needed and a lower power based derivative G5 for laptops.

They could have, but they chose NOT TO.

Originally Posted by Lil Chillbil

At this point I don't think that we should hold our breath for anything close to coreplayer. Sadly these machines are turning into servers (Personal file servers I mean not web servers) and kids toys

[Lil Chillbil]

Originally Posted by PowerPCMacMan

Depends on your usage.. My G5 Quad is a workhorse.. far from being a "toy". The Pismo, now thats my little toy right there. OS 9 is a toy OS for my own nostalgia.

The what ifs... what if PowerPC promised a stable and stronger roadmap for Apple back in 2004-2005? While the move to Intel was smart, I think IBM could have done a lot more to help and bring Apple the 3.0 Ghz G5 it needed and a lower power based derivative G5 for laptops.

They could have, but they chose NOT TO.

No they could not of, the statistics show that the power usage for a g5 processor in a laptop based computer would have failed drastically. The g5 was a very inefficient processor and you know it!

[PowerPCMacMan]

I know... But they could have kept the PowerPC going in the desktop line and stopped with Snow Leopard.. It was not right to drop PPC support from Snow Leopard.. Lion, maybe.. though I would never have run Lion on my G5 if you paid me.. Mountain Lion? Who knows?? Regrettably, we will never know.

I think because of the fact the dual core G5's were just that.. dual core and Quad Core, their technology and hardware could have made use of Grand Central Dispatch.. I would have liked to see Snow Leopard as the final OS for PowerPC.. Intel can have Lion and ML

Originally Posted by Lil Chillbil

At this point I don't think that we should hold our breath for anything close to coreplayer. Sadly these machines are turning into servers (Personal file servers I mean not web servers) and kids toys

Originally Posted by Lil Chillbil

No they could not of, the statistics show that the power usage for a g5 processor in a laptop based computer would have failed drastically. The g5 was a very inefficient processor and you know it!

[Lil Chillbil]

Originally Posted by PowerPCMacMan

I know... But they could have kept the PowerPC going in the desktop line and stopped with Snow Leopard.. It was not right to drop PPC support from Snow Leopard.. Lion, maybe.. though I would never have run Lion on my G5 if you paid me.. Mountain Lion? Who knows?? Regrettably, we will never know.

I think because of the fact the dual core G5's were just that.. dual core and Quad Core, their technology and hardware could have made use of Grand Central Dispatch.. I would have liked to see Snow Leopard as the final OS for PowerPC.. Intel can have Lion and ML

I can agree that sl should have been ported to powerpc

[ppcfanforever1]

Originally Posted by Wildy

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloads

A compatible version that doesn't look like my screen is melting would be nice though, like the past couple versions.

[ihuman:D]

Originally Posted by Lil Chillbil

No they could not of, the statistics show that the power usage for a g5 processor in a laptop based computer would have failed drastically. The g5 was a very inefficient processor and you know it!

Well, PA Semi's G5 derivative was more stable, power-efficient, could be put into a laptop and was faster too(I think) than IBM's G5.

While Freescale was starting too produce the 7448 and after that the e600 based CPUs - which were single and dual-core and were much faster with much faster FSB.

I think the PowerPC industry was just getting better when Apple left/ about year or 2 after Apple left IMO but a while after Apple was gone there was no reason to make consumer-based CPUs so it started to go into decline again.

[skinniezinho]

Originally Posted by ppcfanforever1

Yeah but with qt player its 1080p is far frim flawlesses, 720p has enough problems.

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Yes agreed dude, my old g5 i had could handle it but theses just cant make it as is.

Try xbmc, performs very very good.and supports subtitles!

Jut wish someone continued to develop shiira project:
http://en.sourceforge.jp/projects/shiira/

My main browser is demeter 1.0.9 wich is shiira based and it is awesome

[Wildy]

Originally Posted by ppcfanforever1

A compatible version that doesn't look like my screen is melting would be nice though, like the past couple versions.

How so?

[ppcfanforever1]

Originally Posted by Wildy

How so?

My mac when i boot a live disc it looks like my screens melting aswell with artifacts then it goes to a black screen. This is after the whole loading thing.

[Lil Chillbil]

Originally Posted by ppcfanforever1

My mac when i boot a live disc it looks like my screens melting aswell with artifacts then it goes to a black screen. This is after the whole loading thing.

Sound like a graphics card gone bad

[Wildy]

Originally Posted by ppcfanforever1

My mac when i boot a live disc it looks like my screens melting aswell with artifacts then it goes to a black screen. This is after the whole loading thing.

Sounds like your GPU doesn't get on well with Ubuntu. What model is it? What stage does it die at? When it's booting hit the Esc key and see if you can post anything suspicious.

[seveej]

Originally Posted by Lil Chillbil

Sadly these machines are turning into servers (Personal file servers I mean not web servers) and kids toys

Word, man!

[wrinkster22]

Originally Posted by barrotstein.dev

SNIP

An app that allows playback of videos from an external hard drive:
It should have/work/be:
-Run on G4/G5
-Nice Interface
-Play 480p content

[ppcfanforever1]

Originally Posted by Lil Chillbil

Sound like a graphics card gone bad

Leopard disc is fine so is tiger.

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Originally Posted by Wildy

Sounds like your GPU doesn't get on well with Ubuntu. What model is it? What stage does it die at? When it's booting hit the Esc key and see if you can post anything suspicious.

Its the titanium 800mhz powerbook g4, I read its common on these these machines. Its a shame, I love ubuntu with gnome :/

[Lil Chillbil]

Originally Posted by ppcfanforever1

Leopard disc is fine so is tiger.

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Its the titanium 800mhz powerbook g4, I read its common on these these machines. Its a shame, I love ubuntu with gnome :/

Have you tried amiga 4.1 the g4 is not officially supported but I have it running on my sawtooth faster than snow runs on my imac

[MisterKeeks]

Originally Posted by ppcfanforever1

Leopard disc is fine so is tiger.

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Its the titanium 800mhz powerbook g4, I read its common on these these machines. Its a shame, I love ubuntu with gnome :/

If only you had the 1 GHz model. 2x the VRAM IIRC.

[ppcfanforever1]

Originally Posted by MisterKeeks

If only you had the 1 GHz model. 2x the VRAM IIRC.

Meh no need for it.

[MisterKeeks]

Originally Posted by ppcfanforever1

Meh no need for it.

It might help with Ubuntu.

[ppcfanforever1]

Originally Posted by MisterKeeks

It might help with Ubuntu.

I cant even get it booting though, I dont really care how well it performs, i just want it to work.

[MisterKeeks]

Originally Posted by ppcfanforever1

I cant even get it booting though, I dont really care how well it performs, i just want it to work.

Are you looking specifically for Ubuntu or just any flavor of Linux?

[skinniezinho]

Originally Posted by ppcfanforever1

I cant even get it booting though, I dont really care how well it performs, i just want it to work.

http://powerpcliberation.blogspot.ca...all-guide.html

[MisterKeeks]

Originally Posted by skinniezinho

http://powerpcliberation.blogspot.ca...all-guide.html

That is Lubuntu, he had issues with Ubuntu, which was why I asked what he is looking for.