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is the PowerMac G5 the only PPC able to play YouTube without any special software?
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No, look for @wicknix 's "TenFourTube" here in the forum. It will stream YT at 360p or 240p with a >1GHz G4, but a 600MHz G3 with Tiger might struggle even at 240p ...
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TenFourFox is really the LAST browser you want to be using for YouTube.
Plenty of solutions to be found via search here and many of them work on G4s and G3s but do not involve TenFourFox.
T4Fx is great as a browser, but not as software to view videos.
Plenty of solutions to be found via search here and many of them work on G4s and G3s but do not involve TenFourFox.
T4Fx is great as a browser, but not as software to view videos.
I've meant "TenFourTube"
(and yes, TFF on a G3 is close to a heart attack ...)https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/tenfivetube-yet-another-youtube-option.2103937/
You may use "TenFourTube" with Tiger (OX X 10.4) and "TenFiveTube" with Leopard (OS X 10.5).
You may install Tiger or Leopard onto a G4 or G5 machine. It depends on the clock-speed of the processor, if the video will run smooth in low (240p) or higher (360p, or 720p on a PowerMac-G5) resolution.
TenFourTube/TenFiveTube will stream any of the available HTML5-video provided by YouTube. Resolution is 240p/320p/720p in common. You'll have to chose the resolution that fits best the specs of your hardware.
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Settings are within the video-screen with direct feedback to YT - not a pref within TenFiveTube.
Ah, I was using the Snow Leopard version (1.0) the PPC version (1.3) does give the options - my mistake.
Why not get a decent Intel machine with that money and not have to worry about all these issues that you'valready said you're not good at tackling?
Because I’m kinda into collecting, but I still like to see what I can push an old computer to. I have a 2014 iMac so I don’t really need an Intel machine anyway.
There is a part of me that has been curious if it's possible to repurpose the YouTube for TV set top boxes player ( https://www.cobalt.dev ) for G4/G5 Macs. It should be running on the Xbox 360, which runs on a PPC derived platform, so it shouldn't be impossible.
Might be more trouble than it's worth, but I'm sure somebody in engineering over there would get a kick out of the nostalgia.
Might be more trouble than it's worth, but I'm sure somebody in engineering over there would get a kick out of the nostalgia.
How did you sell an iMac G3 for that sum of money? I was looking at sold iMac G3 listings and the one that was sold for the highest amount was sold for $350 in box with all the accessories.
If you want to do 'modern' things like watching video inside the browser itself at anything higher than 360/720p, spend your money elsewhere.
Yeah I’m probably better off getting a new Mac mini or an iMac about 3-5 years old.
If you really want a PowerPC and can forego YouTube (your 2014 iMac can do that anyway), get an iMac G4 and give it an SSD. Afterwards, assign it specific tasks, like word processing, file/web/multimedia serving, old gaming, very light browsing, anything you can think of that isn't too demanding, really. I'd say you'll be pretty damn satisfied with what it can do for you.
Just don't expect it to do anything a Raspberry Pi couldn't. Power-wise.
In the design department, these suckers are the unmatched cream of the crop in PPC land. Especially now with prices + demand for them rising, get one soon so that the rates don't get any higher. And make sure it's a 1GHz or above. Those revisions had a lot of little tweaks and improvements over the original 2002 models, one of which I happen to be stuck with.
Just don't expect it to do anything a Raspberry Pi couldn't. Power-wise.
In the design department, these suckers are the unmatched cream of the crop in PPC land. Especially now with prices + demand for them rising, get one soon so that the rates don't get any higher. And make sure it's a 1GHz or above. Those revisions had a lot of little tweaks and improvements over the original 2002 models, one of which I happen to be stuck with.
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Now just imagine that on 720p in CorePlayer, full-screen...
I need to hurry up and refurbish mine.
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