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  1. B S Magnet

    YT on PPC: keeping YouTube running & accessible on PowerPC Macs

    YT on PPC: keeping YouTube running and accessible on PowerPC Macs First posted: 24 March 2023 Last updated: 1 April 2023 OVERVIEW It’s simple, even if the fixes have to be updated regularly by the vintage Macs and retro-computing community: a place to file together all the ways of accessing...
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    ffmpeg for PowerPC: some improvements

    If anyone is interested in building ffmpeg, I have fixed several its components to build for PowerPC and in particular 10A190. libsdl2 – updated to v. 2.0.9 libzvbi – fixed build on 10A190 libass – fixed build on 10A190 libvpx – updated to the latest version Here is the config which currently...
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    Script: Using youtube-dl and ffmpeg remotely and playing the video locally

    Hi all, tl;dr Get it here. https://github.com/llamallama/ibookg4linux/blob/main/bin/gimmevideo. Run this on Linux with xclip installed and set the GIMME_VIDEO_HOST environment variable to the location of your remote SSH server. I wrote a script that does the work of downloading videos from...
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    T2 chip-accelerated HEVC conversion with Handbrake

    I read here that I just need to specify -c:v hevc_videotoolbox for an ffmpeg GUI like Handbrake to convert to 8bit H265 using the T2 chip for hardware encoding. I tried specifying --encoder hevc_videotoolbox in the Additional Options section of the video tab in Handbrake. It really didn't seem...
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    installing ffmpeg & ffprobe

    Hi, What's the easiest way to install ffmpeg and ffprobe on Mac osx 10.8 and up? Thanks