Is irrelevant? I dunno everyone else says it works ok on youtube and such maybe his favorite porn site doesn't like mactubes...
I'm quite sure the OP took it in the manner it was intended...
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Is irrelevant? I dunno everyone else says it works ok on youtube and such maybe his favorite porn site doesn't like mactubes...
I'm quite sure the OP took it in the manner it was intended...
i dont think MT works outside of YT i can't get it to play any other flash video (such as News videos from sites like HuffPost or AOL)
I was being funny (look on the first image in my first post again) and Chris recognized it, no harm done. 
I don't care about YouView.
I don't care about YouView.
I can report the G4 iBook, which MacTubes wasn't functioning correctly on yesterday, is now working normally. I had the iBook and the MDD side-by-side each running videos with no problems. I didn't change any settings on the iBook, so I don't know what may be the issue some of us have been experiencing.
I recently reinstalled Leopard on my iBook - I figured it couldn't hurt, considering how sluggish things felt on there lately. not only do things feel a ton snappier (some graphics lag in the UI occasionally, however, but this is to be expected and is only a minor detractant from the experience with some changes made to speed things up where possible), MacTubes has decided it wants to work again. I still haven't an idea why it broke. I vaguely suspected Perian for some reason initially, but it's installed now and things are fine...
This Leopard install is 10.5.6, considering I haven't gotten a long enough string of low bandwidth use to grab the 10.5.8 update (not to mention I tried and got a bad download, somehow). If it decides to break, I'll drop in another post here.
This Leopard install is 10.5.6, considering I haven't gotten a long enough string of low bandwidth use to grab the 10.5.8 update (not to mention I tried and got a bad download, somehow). If it decides to break, I'll drop in another post here.
Same here.. MacTubes isn't working either, but Youview is working great! Don't know why MacTubes isn't working.
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Ok, so why is it that MacTubes does not work? Youview does work. Is Youtube trying to stop back doors to its services or something?
That's a good question. This seems to be a hit and miss subject. Some users are saying they have problems others, like me, say they have no issues. Maybe it's a issue with some people's computers, maybe something is wrong with MacTubes, maybe it is a YouTube issue. Has anyone tried using other options besides QuickTime with any success? If I'm not mistaken VLC will play youtube.
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Yea, I am using Youview and it has no problems playing movies. I can't understand it. MacTubes was playing perfectly last week, and all of a sudden it doesn't wanna play anymore.
I did not know VLC plays youtube?
Oh, well "Think Different"
I did not know VLC plays youtube?
Oh, well "Think Different"
I Think VLC plays YouTube I will check this and confirm it either does or does not play. This MacTubes issue is just as puzzling to me as it is to you. Uninstalling, removing MacTubes from the Library folders and re-installing solved it for me. Have you made sure you have the latest version?
How do I get VLC to play Youtube?
Where on the file bar do I find the right command to allow Youtube to play?
Where on the file bar do I find the right command to allow Youtube to play?
VLC youtube
Use downloadhelper in tenfourfox, copy the url of the file. Open VLC, Command-N (open network) paste in url, VLC plays youtube stream. The same method works in: Quicktime, Mplayer, Niceplayer and Coreplayer, though with different commands of course.
If there is a more straightforward method I am not aware of it. B-G (just posted tonight about plex) had some scripts that slightly automated that process that he posted a few months back.....
Use downloadhelper in tenfourfox, copy the url of the file. Open VLC, Command-N (open network) paste in url, VLC plays youtube stream. The same method works in: Quicktime, Mplayer, Niceplayer and Coreplayer, though with different commands of course.
If there is a more straightforward method I am not aware of it. B-G (just posted tonight about plex) had some scripts that slightly automated that process that he posted a few months back.....
But for the love of... Now MacTubes in my PowerBook also wimped out. Something is obviously up outside of our computers. It can't be "just us".
According to the release notes of the most recent version of ClickToPlugin, Youtube is undergoing an update that brakes video URLs (see http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/#changelog , "YouTube: fixed broken video URLs caused by an ongoing YouTube update").
This may explain the problems you are having with Mactubes (but not why this seems to affect only a few users).
By the way, if you are on Leopard I strongly suggest the Leopard Webkit + Clicktoplugin + Media Center combination. It makes watching videos online much more natural than any other solution I played with on PPC.
And Leopard Webkit recently got some serious enhancements (accelerated HTML5, fullscreen enabled for Quicktime plugin, fixed animated GIFs behaviour, processor optimized code) that make it even better than it was before.
This may explain the problems you are having with Mactubes (but not why this seems to affect only a few users).
By the way, if you are on Leopard I strongly suggest the Leopard Webkit + Clicktoplugin + Media Center combination. It makes watching videos online much more natural than any other solution I played with on PPC.
And Leopard Webkit recently got some serious enhancements (accelerated HTML5, fullscreen enabled for Quicktime plugin, fixed animated GIFs behaviour, processor optimized code) that make it even better than it was before.
B-g
So are you..running Leopard on that emac in your sig? Last time I tried to run leopard on my ibook 1.07 ghz I about stabbed my eyes out, it was so ubelievably awful. But Tiger gets older and older by the day, and Omniweb and Camino are starting to feel sluggish and Tenfourfox borders on the unusable. Maybe I need to strip out all the intel code of 10.5.8 and see if that helps.
Mactubes is working purrr-fect-ly for me still, so maybe the update hasn't hit the USA yet.
So are you..running Leopard on that emac in your sig? Last time I tried to run leopard on my ibook 1.07 ghz I about stabbed my eyes out, it was so ubelievably awful. But Tiger gets older and older by the day, and Omniweb and Camino are starting to feel sluggish and Tenfourfox borders on the unusable. Maybe I need to strip out all the intel code of 10.5.8 and see if that helps.
Mactubes is working purrr-fect-ly for me still, so maybe the update hasn't hit the USA yet.
Yep, maybe it's the GB of ram but Leopard has always run smoothly on my eMac. I never had the opportunity to test Tiger on this machine. Back in 2008 i went directly from Panther to Leopard. I remember that at the time I found 10.5 faster than 10.3, but that could have been just an impression, or maybe my system really needed a reinstall. With sufficient ram, I think that the extra software is worth the Leopard upgrade. If you have enough HD space the best solution may be installing Tiger and Leopard on different partitions. I'm tempted to do this myself (with Panther instead of Tiger) so that I can play with Classic again. I'm itching to try Classilla, plus I wonder how 10.3 would feel in 2012.
As for Omniweb and Camino, unfortunately I think we are going to loose them soon. The Omnigroup has already announced they won't support ppc anymore. I fear Camino developers might be forced to do the same considering their forced move to Webkit. Even an hypothetical Leopard-Webkit powered Camino would only work on 10.5
TenFourFox sluggishness might be due to extensions. I've adopted a minimalistic approach with add-ons and I must say that TFF flies on my system. Unistalling Adblock plus alone has dramatically improved speed (Im using Glimmer Blocker to get rid of ads, if I was on Tiger I would probably go old school and edit the host file). VideoDownload Helper is installed but disabled. It is powerful but it works in the background and I think it tends to eat resources. At the moment I'm using only NoScript to block garbage (especially social widgets) and Unplug for video (excellent interface, only acts on request). In the rare occasions Unplug doesn't fetch video URLs I momentarily enable VideoDownload Helper. I even got rid of Flashblock, it is not needed with the right Noscript settings.
Oh, and just to return on topic, Mactubes is working fine for me as well. Maybe it's an ISP problem?
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