TikTok on PowerPC

[Dronecatcher]

I'm not a TikTok user but whilst looking for something else I came across a low resource, alternative frontend for it and tried it out using an InterWebPPC InTheBox instance on my 12" Powerbook running Tiger.

As TikTok uses a fairly new audio codec, video playback needs to be passed to a relatively contemporary player - in this case, I used (as I often do) FFPlay that comes with PPCMC7, called via an applet, imaginatively titled, TokPlayer

I've attached both files if anyone wants to try it themselves - both need to be in the normal Applications folder and PPCMC7 needs to be installed.

Further details on the frontend are here.

Hi-res here:

 

[TheShortTimer]

Great stuff and thanks for sharing this with the community. I'm not a TikTok user either but those who are will definitely appreciate this.

I knew that you hadn't "reached the limits" of your hackery!

 

[Dronecatcher]

I knew that you hadn't "reached the limits" of your hackery!

Ha ha - thanks I'm sometimes lucky coming across stuff done on other platforms, like the Telegram thing, that was from a Windows Phone group.

 

[ifrit05]

I appreciate the work you did for this but, I'd rather not let any of my devices, let alone my precious PPC Macs touch TikTok even with a 50 foot pole. xD

 

[mectojic]

... and here I was thinking we could keep TikTok off our beloved PPC Macs.

But seriously, nice work. I won't be using it, but I'm sure someone on the mainstream world will pick this up at some point and make a $ of ad revenue.