So I've seen ViewTube mentioned here many times as a solution for viewing YouTube videos on Early Intel Macs, but for the life of me I haven't found any guide or explanation on how to do actually do it.
The current set up I'm trying it out on is my Oreo BlackBook (MacBook 2,1, 10.6.8) running Arctic Fox 45.2 running ViewTube through the fork of Greasemonkey made for Pale Moon.
I've tried configuring it so that it will use QuickTime Player or VLC to watch the video instead of the browser's built-in HTML5 video player, but I either get a "The Video Format or MIME Type is Not Supported" error, or Arctic Fox itself complains that it doesn't understand the protocol "viewtube", suggesting to me that it doesn't know how to pass off the video stream to an external player.
I have read the instructions linked from a thread provided by dronecatcher but those look highly out of date.
Incidentally I've also tried to use the Intel version of PPCMC, but it fails with error messages about certificates, suggesting that it really doesn't like wowfunhappy's Legacy Mac Proxy.
This has really frustrated me for a while now, as I've seen lots of folks showing how they're able to YouTube working perfectly on their PPC machines and Early Intel machines, yet I've seen little discussion about how one can actually do it outside of the PPC realm.
The current set up I'm trying it out on is my Oreo BlackBook (MacBook 2,1, 10.6.8) running Arctic Fox 45.2 running ViewTube through the fork of Greasemonkey made for Pale Moon.
I've tried configuring it so that it will use QuickTime Player or VLC to watch the video instead of the browser's built-in HTML5 video player, but I either get a "The Video Format or MIME Type is Not Supported" error, or Arctic Fox itself complains that it doesn't understand the protocol "viewtube", suggesting to me that it doesn't know how to pass off the video stream to an external player.
I have read the instructions linked from a thread provided by dronecatcher but those look highly out of date.
Incidentally I've also tried to use the Intel version of PPCMC, but it fails with error messages about certificates, suggesting that it really doesn't like wowfunhappy's Legacy Mac Proxy.
This has really frustrated me for a while now, as I've seen lots of folks showing how they're able to YouTube working perfectly on their PPC machines and Early Intel machines, yet I've seen little discussion about how one can actually do it outside of the PPC realm.
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