Is there any workaround to make Netflix Streaming Movies work
on a PowerPC G5 Tower Mac ?
It uses Sliverlight Technology from Microsoft .
on a PowerPC G5 Tower Mac ?
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Anyway to make Netflix Streaming work on PowerPC G5 Mac ??
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I mean that larkost is talking about things he doesn't understand. Xbox 360 is PowerPC and it runs Netflix streaming. G5 PowerPCs have no problem playing 1080p H.264 video. The only thing stopping it from working on G5 Macs is Netflix (or Microsoft?) doesn't feel like it. G5s were the development kit hardware for the 360 until they had the final product finished.
PS3 and Wii also contain PowerPC processors. The Wii processor is only running about 730Mhz. The idea that these 'old' PowerPC processors don't have enough horsepower is hooey. What PowerPC lacked was energy/heat efficiency, at least on the IBM product line. That's why the early Xbox360/PS3s were very toasty at 3.2Ghz with a stripped down PowerPC core(no out of order execution).
1. Download the Silverlight installer package from Microsoft.
2. Right-click on the PKG file and select "Show Package Contents"
3. Delete the "InstallationCheck" file from Contents/Resources
4. Run the installer
Does that work?
2. Right-click on the PKG file and select "Show Package Contents"
3. Delete the "InstallationCheck" file from Contents/Resources
4. Run the installer
Does that work?
I don't think you understand processors. It is not the PowerPC part of the the processor that is doing the work, but rather the parts derived from the Sony Cell processor that is doing the work on the Xbox 360. Multimedia processing like this is exactly what the Cell was designed for.
The Altivec units on the G5 are nice, but no where near the throughput of the Cell processors.
My professor has a power pc and it's really slow. Those with formal education in computer science know that Power PC processors are backwards. They are not big endian, they are little endian. So it really may not be possible.
The only part of the 'Cell' processor in the Xbox 360 is the PowerPC core, with some minor changes to accommodate the different memory architecture.
larkost said:
Well, I guess I'll be waiting a while to play PS3 games on G5s.
Where is the camera? Seriously, where is the camera? There has to be a hidden camera around here.
The PowerPC was a great example of a semi-RISC design. And RISC is the general direction that all major processors have gone in. In Intel's case this means that they have wrapped a CISC instruction decoder around a RISC core (it is a little more complex than that, but it is a good generalization).
And the whole big-endian/little-endian is not something you can use to call a processor family "backwards". In fact all of the network protocols are big-endian... the same as PowerPC uses. And if you really want to go into it, the PowerPC processor could switch modes via a software command. Apple used it as big-endian, but it had a little-endian mode as well.
As to PowerPC being slow, that is because there has been no development on the PowerPC line for more than 4 years.
I just tried it, and it does get the installer to run, but the plugin that is dropped in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins is Intel-only. Web sites still react as Silverlight not installed.
The problem is that Netflix is using Silverlight 2 because of its DRM features, and Microsoft made that Intel-only. There are no options for PPC users.
The Silverlight 2.0b2 beta version WAS PowerPC capable.
Only at the last minute, did Microsoft yank the PPC code on the final release.
But where to get Silverlight 2.0b2 ?
And how to make it work with Netflix?
The Silverlight 2.0b2 beta version WAS PowerPC capable.
Only at the last minute, did Microsoft yank the PPC code on the final release.
But where to get Silverlight 2.0b2 ?
And how to make it work with Netflix?
http://www.gooofull.com/descarga_gratis/11853/silverlight.html
Thanks for the effort, slutmobilio, but the plug-in that gets installed is still just Intel only. Bummer!
Resurrecting old thread, but with Ubuntu Linux I was able to run Netflix by using Wine-based emulation, someone had created this thing where Windows -version of Silverlight, Flash and FireFox were installed and then run by clicking that shortcut the script created. Same thing would probably be possible on PowerPC as well? Altough I think only Dual G5's would be able to run such thing fluently enough?