Youtube on G3 iMac

[Dronecatcher]

Just done another video - I'll post it here for future reference

 

[bobesch]

Great! Have to check that with my 400MHz G3 too.
During the last few days I captured Hi8 video with iMovie2 (os9) and rendered the DV-footage to H263-320x240 video which runs fine with that machine.
What are the specs of that YT video on your video?

 

[Dronecatcher]

What are the specs of that YT video on your video?

Not sure about the one in TenFourTube but the one with TonVid is 360P h264.

 

[wicknix]

TenFourTube's low res option is 240p. Default is 360p. Too bad QuickTime 7.7 wasn't available for tiger or it'd be better.

Cheers

 

[Dronecatcher]

TenFourTube's low res option is 240p. Default is 360p. Too bad QuickTime 7.7 wasn't available for tiger or it'd be better.

Cheers

That's the CPU bottleneck - 240P will be webm or mp4 video muxed with webm or m4a audio - if only we could get 3gp video played in browser, CPU use would be a quarter of what it is with muxed video.

 

[Dronecatcher]

Might have to redo the video - just found that Tiger Webkit with a mobile user agent handles 'instant' Youtube the best!

 

[bobesch]

Infact I've just been whizzing round m.youtube on my G3 - anything I want at 360P, I copy the url, launch a script, download and playback full screen...simply amazing for such an old machine

Ha, how is it you do that magic? I mean the part after copying the url ...

 

[Dronecatcher]

Ha, how is it you do that magic? I mean the part after copying the url ...

Use youtube-dl in Terminal or one of my scripts from here:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/new-youtube-player-downloader-even-for-g3.2031523/

Open in MPlayer

 

[bobesch]

Use youtube-dl in Terminal or one of my scripts from here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/new-youtube-player-downloader-even-for-g3.2031523/
Open in MPlayer

Ah, thanks! The holy grail of how to max-out video on PPC. I remember reading that thread earlier but I've lost track - should have bookmarked that link!