Playing youtube videos normally under TFF and the G4?

[Cox Orange]

Cracked it!
The problem was the TFF config file (prefs.js) - mine has been heavily modified with all the speed hacks from the forum, when I moved it, TFF builds a fresh one and the QTE menus now appears.
Downside is, about 90% of clips Quicktime then fails to open.

I'll stick with Webkit+CTP for video on Leopard and Safari 4 on Tiger.
At least I know the problem now 🙂

What does CTP stand for?

 

[Dronecatcher]

What does CTP stand for?

Safari extension.......ClickToPlugin

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I get an occasional dropped frame or hesitation, but performance is otherwise good at standard def. on both computers.

That's pretty much the same performance as my Dual G5 - which is shoddy considering the extra oommph is has over G4s.

 

[tevion5]

By the way, your video file was a whopping 20Mbps 1080p mp4...my G5 fans blew like a hurricane playing it 🙂

Never mind your G5, my iPhone 5S struggled with that one!

 

[Dronecatcher]

Never mind your G5, my iPhone 5S struggled with that one!

Imagine in 10 years time how we'll look back and view 1080p as crude and low-end 😀

 

[tevion5]

Imagine in 10 years time how we'll look back and view 1080p as crude and low-end 😀

Sure rember when DVD replaced VHS? 480p was wicked

 

[bunnspecial]

I've been playing around with YT this evening on one of my Cubes. This is my bare bones basic, 450mhz model. It does have 1.5gb of RAM and a Radeon 7500 driving a 22" ADC Cinema. I haven't(yet) installed Leopard, but it runs Tiger fairly well.

In any case, it's connected directly to my router via wired ethernet. In TFF, Youtube is actually useable-if not totally pleasant. I've found that the key is to let the video load for a minute or two before trying to play. Otherwise, it stutters badly(on the video, not usually the audio). Once loaded-i.e. if replaying a video, it's about 95% okay.

I wanted to play around with my Sawtooth also, but booted it up to find 96mb of RAM in it 🙄 . I think that the last time I booted it up, I was using it to sort RAM sticks, hence the collection of random small stick in it(it has 3x62).

I need to order some more SDRAM-I need some 512mb for several computers, and some 256s for my B&Ws, beige G3s, and Yikes!. Funnily enough, PC-133 is usually cheaper than PC-100-that's fine with me since having to stock one RAM speed makes life a lot easier.

 

[coconutshrimp]

Youtube plays fine on my G4 mac mini 1.25 (overclocked to 1.5) with 1 gig of RAM running 10.5.8. I had to offload adblocking to a network server and spoof an ipad UA to get the mobile site, but its smooth on the latest leopard webkit.

 

[Dronecatcher]

I've been playing around with YT this evening on one of my Cubes. This is my bare bones basic, 450mhz model. It does have 1.5gb of RAM and a Radeon 7500 driving a 22" ADC Cinema. I haven't(yet) installed Leopard, but it runs Tiger fairly well.

In any case, it's connected directly to my router via wired ethernet. In TFF, Youtube is actually useable-if not totally pleasant. I've found that the key is to let the video load for a minute or two before trying to play. Otherwise, it stutters badly(on the video, not usually the audio). Once loaded-i.e. if replaying a video, it's about 95% okay.

Every time I read something like this I have to check on my machines again to make sure I haven't been going mad 😉
Just like you said, I made sure the video loads up first and is fully cached, even so my Dual G5 under Leopard still has jerky playback and both processors pushing 70% (as opposed to 30% watching the mp4 in browser on Webkit).
On my 1.33 PB under Tiger, fully cached the video stutters badly and processor is at 100%

I wonder is it remotely possible TFF favours particular hardware set ups as clearly a 450Mhz Cube had considerably less horsepower than later PPC Macs?