2021 Youtube Player For G3 And Low End

[ultrasaw]

In PPCMC7 update youtube-dl

what’s the command for this in the shell? i’m a novice with the terminal

 

[Dronecatcher]

Not necessary - just select option

 

[ultrasaw]

Not necessary - just select option

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oh my, I must be blind. don't know how I missed that. 🤣 thank you!

 

[sevenhundred]

Awesom

Help. I followed every step to get youtube on my 700mhz iMac G3 DV SE 2001 and it worked until the end. I tried updating YouTube.dl and it didn’t work. I’m using ppcmc version 7.2.3

The 'engine' for this is the excellent PPCMC by @alex_free which is an invaluable Swiss Army Knife of utilities all in one place.

So, @mectojic after downloading PPCMC and placing it in Applications (must be located there) create a folder, Youtube in the Movies folder.
Download the attached archive, open and place Choob into Applications and the 3 scripts into Documents - create shortcuts for all in the Dock (scripts must be in the righthand section of the Dock.)

Choob is a TenFourFoxBox so will require TenFourFox to be already installed.
It's a Youtube browser that's loaded with a vintage Nokia user agent and a modified config file that will not allow Youtube videos to load up - this will save precious CPU cycles (quite a lot in fact - without that mod the browser uses 100% CPU.)

The 3 scripts offer playback at 144P, 240P and 144P without framedropping which is a more pleasant quality.

After searching for your video in Choob, press shift-cmd-u to copy the video url, then click your desired script shortcut in the Dock.

Youtube-dl within PPCMC will then download both the video and audio, then 'splice' these together before opening in ffplay - this is much quicker than converting the files to another format (especially on a G3.)

After playing the video is deleted.

A word of warning - not every video on Youtube will be available in the formats this utility employs, so there may be errors but as you can see in the screenshots, 66% CPU on a 500Mhz G3 iMac for 240P video with high quality m4a audio isn't too shabby!

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Help. Ive done everystep, it worked until te end. Each script opes up to a white gui and after some text is loaded it crashes. i trie d updating yutube.dl but it hs not worked. i am using a 700mhz iMac G3 graphite from 2001 and im using PPCMC versons 7.2.3

 

[Dronecatcher]

Help. I followed every step to get youtube on my 700mhz iMac G3 DV SE 2001 and it worked until the end. I tried updating YouTube.dl and it didn’t work. I’m using ppcmc version 7.2.3

Sorry, PPCMC has changed since I did these scripts - they won't work until I've get round to looking at them again.

 

[Dronecatcher]

I followed every step to get youtube on my 700mhz iMac G3 DV SE 2001 and it worked until the end. I tried updating YouTube.dl and it didn’t work. I’m using ppcmc version 7.2.3

@sevenhundred I've modified the scripts are they now work with PPCMC 7.2.3 - the archive has replaced the original one on the first post.

 

[sevenhundred]

Sorry, PPCMC has changed since I did these scripts - they won't work until I've get round to looking at them again.

another question, how do I get ffplay for ppc G3

 

[Dronecatcher]

another question, how do I get ffplay for ppc G3

It's part of the PPCMC app.

 

[sevenhundred]

I tried loading Th e file in ppcmc that Chopin downloaded, and got this weird black terminal.

 

[sevenhundred]

Choob*

 

[Dronecatcher]

I tried loading Th e file in ppcmc that Chopin downloaded, and got this weird black terminal.

Choob doesn't play or download anything, it's used for obtaining the youtube video url.

 

[sevenhundred]

I got there url, activated the 144p script, opened a terminal, sent a file to the YouTube file, and then closed.

 

[Dronecatcher]

I got there url, activated the 144p script, opened a terminal, sent a file to the YouTube file, and then closed.

Try another video - as I said, not every video is available in these formats.

 

[sevenhundred]

Oh ok, sorry I’m 14 and this is my first time trying this

 

[sevenhundred]

I got an error saying ppcmc.app and some other text I couldn’t read in time

 

[Dronecatcher]

Oh ok, sorry I’m 14 and this is my first time trying this

That's ok. Youtube can be unpredicatable sometimes and videos that work one day, don't work the next and then do.

I tried the new scripts this morning and they worked on my G4 Powerbook - haven't had chance to test on G3 yet.

 

[Dronecatcher]

I got an error saying ppcmc.app and some other text I couldn’t read in time

What happens if you don't use the scripts and use PPCMC itself?

 

[sevenhundred]

What happens if you don't use the scripts and use PPCMC itself?

If I click stream YouTube video, nothing happens. If I click play media file, a black terminal with white text appears and nothing opens.

 

[Dronecatcher]

If I click stream YouTube video, nothing happens. If I click play media file, a black terminal with white text appears and nothing opens.

Might be a specific G3 error @alex_free might be able to help?

 

[sevenhundred]

I re checked. Before the error it said ffmpeg was merging formats in to the YouTube folder

 

[Dronecatcher]

I re checked. Before the error it said ffmpeg was merging formats in to the YouTube folder

You are using the right version for your OS?

 

[sevenhundred]

10.4.11 yeah

 

[sevenhundred]

I’m using the one that says tiger

 

[sevenhundred]

Somwthong weird also happened. It made a folder in movies that inside it held a folder named YouTube.

 

[alex_free]

Somwthong weird also happened. It made a folder in movies that inside it held a folder named YouTube.

I don't think that was from PPCMC. Can you delete /Applications/PPCMC.app and reinstall it? Screenshots could be helpful as well..