Playing Youtube With Classilla In OS9

[swamprock]

It's one aspect of the site I never took advantage of - server side transcoding, particularly useful if you're stuck on one OS9 machine.

It‘s quite handy if you desire better quality video than the defaults that are supplied (by this, I mean the 320x240 that free users can convert, download, and play in OS 9), and fun to play around with. I figured out that the maximum resolution that is playable on my 1.42ghz Mini is 1200x600 with 128kbps audio without stuttering or crashing OS 9. I tried to up the memory in QuickTime but that had no effect on more resource-intensive videos.

All of this is based on the site experiences. There may be other options I’m sure, but I’m just a novice at this stuff.

 

[Dronecatcher]

All of this is based on the site experiences. There may be other options I’m sure, but I’m just a novice at this stuff.

I was nudging 720P on my old 667Mhz TiBook:

HD Video on OS 9

Well I've been tinkering with my newly acquired 667 Powerbook and seeing how far I can push video under OS9. For testing I used a couple of 720P movie trailers, MPEG Streamclip on my G5 to convert them and Quicktime Pro 6 on Mac OS9. I found the optimum codec to be the Apple MPEG4 Compressor at...

forums.macrumors.com

I'm pretty sure I never got such good results again even on better hardware...something was missing from the recipe

 

[Macbookprodude]

I was nudging 720P on my old 667Mhz TiBook:

HD Video on OS 9

Well I've been tinkering with my newly acquired 667 Powerbook and seeing how far I can push video under OS9. For testing I used a couple of 720P movie trailers, MPEG Streamclip on my G5 to convert them and Quicktime Pro 6 on Mac OS9. I found the optimum codec to be the Apple MPEG4 Compressor at...

forums.macrumors.com

I'm pretty show I never got such good results again even on better hardware...something was missing from the recipe

How did you do that under OS 9 ?

 

[Dronecatcher]

How did you do that under OS 9 ?

It's in the post I linked

 

[Macbookprodude]

How did you do that under OS 9 ?

Bro, this is so kewl !!! I got to try it with some of the trailers myself, now all we need is a way to get full YouTube to play under Classila. I know, not gonna happen

 

[Dronecatcher]

Looks like video.2yxa.mobi has been hit by ludicrous sanctions...I'm sure Putin's war machine will be crippled by vintage PowerPC users being unable to contribute $1 for easy Youtube access :/

 

[lepidotós]

Pennies count in quantities of ten, to spin a phrase I heard Bil Herd say.​

 

[Lololobolosse]

The quicktime script is not working for me when i try to download a video classilla just make the download screen and not open quicktime i have classilla 9.3.4b and quicktime 6.0.3 with the plugin in the correct folder can you help me ? Does it is because i d'ont have flash player ?

 

[Dronecatcher]

The quicktime script is not working for me when i try to download a video classilla just make the download screen and not open quicktime i have classilla 9.3.4b and quicktime 6.0.3 with the plugin in the correct folder can you help me ? Does it is because i d'ont have flash player ?

Classilla 9.4.3 is known to have problems - 9.3.3 is what was used here.

 

[Lololobolosse]

Classilla 9.4.3 is known to have problems - 9.3.3 is what was used here.

It's still not working after the video is process click a new time on download and it's just the download page of classilla and quicktime is not opening wath quicktime are you using ?

 

[Dronecatcher]

It's still not working after the video is process click a new time on download and it's just the download page of classilla and quicktime is not opening wath quicktime are you using ?

Using QuickTime 6.0.3 - just tried it and all working here, after processing the video as mp4 (320x240) clicking on it opens and plays the video in another Classilla tab, clicking download asks me where to save the file - after downloading plays in QuickTime.

 

[Lololobolosse]

Using QuickTime 6.0.3 - just tried it and all working here, after processing the video as mp4 (320x240) clicking on it opens and plays the video in another Classilla tab, clicking download asks me where to save the file - after downlo

 

[Lololobolosse]

It's still not working whenbi click on the download link it directly say to me where to download the file

 

[Lololobolosse]

Sorry i made a mistake in my post

 

[Lololobolosse]

When i click it just does this

 

[Lololobolosse]

The download screen just appear sorry but my picture didn't post

 

[Lololobolosse]

Maybe it's my plugins coule you sent me yours its the 2 quicktime plugins file in the plugins folder of classilla

 

[Dronecatcher]

Maybe it's my plugins coule you sent me yours its the 2 quicktime plugins file in the plugins folder of classilla

No extra plugins were needed - reinstall 9.3.3 and the QuickTime 6.0.3 from the garden:

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/quicktime-6x

 

[swamprock]

Since I'm unable to pay for another month for custom conversions on 2yxa, I scrolled further down and did a 800x600/30fps/192kbps video rate/128kbps audio conversion, then clicked Download once it was ready. With this format, the video will play in Classilla at 800x600 rather than 320x240 with the parameters I listed. I tried 1024x768 but got an error, so it's limited. The same video is a tad choppy on my 800mhz iBook G3, but plays full speed on my 1.42ghz Mini running unsupported OS 9. I'm sure if I messed with a few of the parameters that I would get better playback on a lesser machine. I was also running the browser under Classic in Jaguar, so that may have affected the speed as well.