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Inaugural Winter PowerPC Challenge! January 1-7, 2017

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1st Week of January, 2017? (Jan 1-Jan 7)

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Altemose said:
I have the PPC Media Center program in my Applications folder, and I have ran it, but I do not see how to use it. Is it an app or something in the browser?



You would be surprised how many of our members are young in the PPC forum. I joined back in 2013 when I was 15, and many of the members now have been here for a few years but are mainly under 20. There are obviously quite a few over that age though. :)

Sounds like there are quite a few bugs to squash if your network is dropping to 100 Kbps. Is that your network speed or Internet speed that drops that low?
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Yeah, I joined the realm of PPC computing in October of 2014 when I was 14 years old and a freshman in high school. Now it's 2017, I'm 17 years old and a junior in high school, 30 Macs later. Most of the friends I've met on here are 21 or under, including @Altemose.
 
I've been a PPC user since I was a baby haha, but I joined here during high school too, now I'm 22 and in college, glad you're here @Gamer9430! I like hanging out here too. :) PowerPCs will always have a special place in my heart, and @cammykool, I say go for it! This week I didn't have a lot of time to test out all my different PPCs, so I figure over the next couple weeks I'll try to push the limits of a few more of my machines and see what works and what doesn't and keep finding more uses for these computers in my everyday life. :)
 
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Altemose said:
I have the PPC Media Center program in my Applications folder, and I have ran it, but I do not see how to use it. Is it an app or something in the browser?
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It is an app. If you installed PPC Media Center 6.0 correctly (the first time you run it, it will install perian and python on your mac), just copy a youtube link, open the app and it will automatically recognise it and will show you several options: "watch movie in sd" "watch movie in hd", "download movie" and so on...
 
The challenge is over now. Thanks a lot to gamer9430 for starting this and for all the others for a lot of inspiration.
Reading you posts folks I feel both an oldie and 30y younger - it is great fun to be part of this challenge and the PPC-community.
Here's a citation of one of my favorite songs that fits quite nice to the this thread...

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pochopsp said:
It is an app. If you installed PPC Media Center 6.0 correctly (the first time you run it, it will install perian and python on your mac), just copy a youtube link, open the app and it will automatically recognise it and will show you several options: "watch movie in sd" "watch movie in hd", "download movie" and so on...
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I cannot wait to try this!
 
I've noticed PPCMC uses a -noaltivec build of FFmpeg which is quite old ( 0.5 ) which it installs in /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg-0.5 for video to mp3 conversion. I've replaced the binary with the latest official build for PPC leopard on my PMG4.

Although not sure if this type of conversion makes use of the vector unit on the G4-G5, it sure looks a tiny bit faster. Plus, it now displays the duration of the mp3 in the h:m:s format instead of only seconds during the converstion.
 
Is it cheating if I SSH into a remote machine to compile stuff for work :(

edit: I really wish nodejs was supported on 32bit ppc!
 
redheeler said:
I think some of us who failed the challenge should take what we learned and organize a retry attempt. I'm up for it :)
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I'm up for it. I couldn't participate in the challenge this winter because I had no access to my PPC Macs at the time.

Also, one challenge a year is perhaps not enough, maybe it should be held twice a year.
If we are realists after all, there are not going to be that many years left for our precious Power PC machines...
 
I guess we could hold one every 6 months? That would mean July 1-7, 2017. Not a bad idea; January is in the middle of winter, July is in the middle of summer.
 
Gamer9430 said:
I guess we could hold one every 6 months? That would mean July 1-7, 2017. Not a bad idea; January is in the middle of winter, July is in the middle of summer.
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I agree! Couldn't do the last one because my Sawtooth is a tad mad. A challenge every year would mean a maximum of 3-4 challenges as I highly doubt that a 1GHz G4 (or any PPC Mac expect for higher-end G5s) will be enough for me in more than 4 years.
 
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Sadly, yet again with only one Intel Mac in the house and all the rest of my Macs and daily drivers being PowerPC, I will simply have to observe others taking the challenge. :)
 
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