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{01-FEB-2020} SMtube 20.1.0 (OS X 10.5.8) (alternative for Youview/Mactubes/Mobile Youtube) INSTALLER

Thanks @Dronecatcher.

I tried the settings and while it would keep up with staying in sync and didn't like the frame dropping.
I will leave it just at 360p and be happy with it. If I really want to see a YouTube video in HD (720p) I just download it with PPC Media Center.
It's a good setup.
 
Any idea what is happening here?

Followed the newest instructions on my G5. The tonvid link works great but when I use m.youtube.com and right click on "Open with MPlayer", here's what I get:

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ziggy29 said:
Followed the newest instructions on my G5. The tonvid link works great but when I use m.youtube.com and right click on "Open with MPlayer", here's what I get:
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Can't comment as I've never used it to go to m.youtube - did you see any advantages of doing that? Did it feed 3gp files?
 
ziggy29 said:
Not yet. I just noticed the instructions mentioned it, so I decided to try it. Not a big deal, but just wondering if I'd configured something wrong.
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I will have to try myself but I'm guessing there is a difference in the URL feeds from Tonvid VS mobile YouTube, what do you see in your Utilities/Console logs ?
 
ziggy29 said:
Not yet. I just noticed the instructions mentioned it, so I decided to try it. Not a big deal, but just wondering if I'd configured something wrong.
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The feed from m.youtube.com no longer works in SMTube 18.1 with MPlayer 1.3.

Thanks for pointing this out, I have updated the first post.
 
Hi guys! I have now installed Leopard on my iBook G4 and I'm very happy with it. Of one of the first installed apps was Smtube with Mplayer. It works and when I click a video it opens with Mplayer, but, it stutters, it is so sluggish it makes me to just close the app and give up. Am I the only one with this issue? Could you please help me? thanks a lot :)

EDIT: Just notice that if I lower the resolution of videos to 240p in Smtube settings, it plays them smoothly. But, is my iBook so bad I can't watch a 360p video streaming in mplayer?
 
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pochopsp said:
Hi guys! I have now installed Leopard on my iBook G4 and I'm very happy with it. Of one of the first installed apps was Smtube with Mplayer. It works and when I click a video it opens with Mplayer, but, it stutters, it is so sluggish it makes me to just close the app and give up. Am I the only one with this issue? Could you please help me? thanks a lot :)

EDIT: Just notice that if I lower the resolution of videos to 240p in Smtube settings, it plays them smoothly. But, is my iBook so bad I can't watch a 360p video streaming in mplayer?
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Good morning

I can double check this evening on my iBooks, what model is yours ?

Did you use @Dronecatcher suggested options ?

%u -title %t -framedrop -cache 8192 -lavdopts skiploopfilter=all:skipframe=nonref -really-quiet
[doublepost=1521616893][/doublepost]Had a quick try on my iBook 12” before leaving for work.

360p mp4 without extra options on Charger, Ethernet plays back with no issues as I could tell the 1st minute
 
pochopsp said:
Thanks @Lastic , you're very kind as ever. My IBook is a 14' with a single 1.33 Ghz G4, ati Radeon 9200, and the stock 512MB RAM and HDD.

I didn't try @Dronecatcher tweaks , has it something to do with my issue?
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Well I'm typing this on my iBook 12" G4 , 1 Ghz, 1.25 GB RAM , 60 GB mSATA SSD which can run 360p on Better Performance (whilst on battery only) without his tweaks, maybe yours needs the tweaks because of the lesser RAM and/or slower HDD ?
 
Really don't think it's the specs - your iBook punches higher than my TiBook. I'd try the MPlayer hard frame drop options and if they don't work there's probably a software glitch somewhere.
 
Thanks for sharing this.
It works great for my old Powermac G5 2.0 DP and also Powermac G4 MDD FW800 1.0 Single. I've just bought these 2 units just a couple of weeks ago and felt a little displeased with it's youtube playing.
Now I can gladly to say that both G4 and G5 are quite useful for modern youtube entertainment.
 
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With my G4 DP 1Ghz MDD 720p lags.

I took a look into mplayers manual & discovered that mplayer is only using 1 thread by default.

Its possible to force mplayer libavcodec to use 2 or even more threads (depending how much cores you have)
This is how to start mplayer with 2 threads (smtube mp4 720p) . No quality drop with standard, a bit while using fast(optimized) .

Standard: %u -title %t -really-quiet -lavdopts threads=2
Fast: %u -title %t -really-quiet -lavdopts fast:threads=2
Standard (Alt. audio sync algorithm): %u -title %t -really-quiet -lavdopts threads=2 -autosync 1
Fast (Alt. audio sync algorithm): %u -title %t -really-quiet -lavdopts fast:threads=2 -autosync 1

No more lags for me :)

Enjoy...
 
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While I was trying the -lavdopts thread=4 on my G5 Quad (wil comment on it later but I was impressed) I saw there is an update for smtube.
Did someone try it already ?
 
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Changelog for newest
Version 18.3
  • The option open audio with has been fixed.

In my opinion this one doesn't worth for us :)
 
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I finally got around to setting this up today, but I haven't been able to get it to work. When I right-click a video from TonVid in SMTube, and click "Open with MPlayer", Mplayer opens, but never starts to stream. Clicking play does nothing. Is there a step here that I'm missing or a log somewhere I can check to see what is happening?
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dbdjre0143 said:
I finally got around to setting this up today, but I haven't been able to get it to work. When I right-click a video from TonVid in SMTube, and click "Open with MPlayer", Mplayer opens, but never starts to stream. Clicking play does nothing. Is there a step here that I'm missing or a log somewhere I can check to see what is happening?
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Close all apps.

Can you open Applications/Utilities/Console.

On the left-hand side , under Log Database Queries, select All Messages.
On the toolbar, click on "Clear Display"

Next start up SMTube, try to playback a video with Mplayer , and close SMTube.

Now go back to Console , there should be plenty of messages

Click File , Save a copy as (make sure it shows All Messages) ,save it and attach it here

Last but not least , go to /Applications/Utilities/Terminal

Type ls -ltr ~/.config/smplayer/ , paste the output here and
type ls -ltr ~/.config/smtube/ and paste the output here
 
pochopsp said:
Lastic, it is way easier than that. He installed the wrong version of mplayer, an old one instead of the one you provided.
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Thank you both for the speedy reply! I'm not sure what version I should be using? I grabbed mplayer from the dropbox link in the first post. The file is "MPlayer-1.3.0_3_OSX_Tiger.mpkg". Is there a newer link I'm missing?
[doublepost=1536255471][/doublepost]Nevermind that last question! I didn't remember installing MPlayer before so I didn't realize the version I had in Applications wasn't the version I just installed! Found the correct one in /opt/local/bin and working great!
Thanks a bushel for the help @pochopsp and @Lastic !
 
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