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12-11-2021 - PPCMC 7.2.6 - YouTube/Twitch Streaming, Downloading, File Conversion, Web Interface, & More For Panther-Leopard PPC/Intel

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Dronecatcher said:
Certainly - can easily test Tiger/Leopard on my Powerbook...testing on my G3 iMac will take a bit longer as it's not set up.
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Thanks. I’m just waiting on ffmpeg now.

By the way with getting the 3gp URL, I’ve had success using curl with the user agent you provided. It downlods a page with the 3gp link. If a script was made to extract the link we could have a complete YouTube-dl -g replacement.

I should just write a YouTube-3gp-dl .
 
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z970mp said:
All I have running at the moment is a G5 on Leopard. If that will do, then sure.
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That will do, I was wondering what is the highest resolution video you can download with PPC Media Center and play at full speed? I’m limited to 480p on my G4 1.42ghz. Can you get up to 720p or 1080p on your G5?
 
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Dronecatcher said:
A G5 will play 1080P h264 but not using QuickTime - Coreplayer, MPlayer and XBMC can do the job - with Coreplayer, high end G4 can do it too.
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I’ll have to check out core player.

Here is the test build. Should work on anything running 10.3-10.5. If it doesn’t work with a 10.3 version lower then 10.3.9, try 10.3.9.

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alex_free said:
Here is the test build. Should work on anything running 10.3-10.5. If it doesn’t work with a 10.3 version lower then 10.3.9, try 10.3.9.
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Whilst streaming 360P works ok on Tiger, downloading 1080P and adding audio returned this error:

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On Leopard, I tested streaming 360P and downloading 1080P and they're fine.

No more options have been added yet - is that correct, as the menu appears the same as before?

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Oh and the 1080P video played back with framedropping on my Powerbook with Coreplayer and MPlayer.
 
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Dronecatcher said:
Whilst streaming 360P works ok on Tiger, downloading 1080P and adding audio returned this error:

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On Leopard, I tested streaming 360P and downloading 1080P and they're fine.

No more options have been added yet - is that correct, as the menu appears the same as before?

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Oh and the 1080P video played back with framedropping on my Powerbook with Coreplayer and MPlayer.
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I’m recompiling ffmpeg right now with some additional settings. For some reason it linked liniconv from 10.5 instead of 10.4 even though I told it to not do that.

Yea no additional features yet I just want to see if I can cross compile everything from leopard.
 
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Dronecatcher said:
Whilst streaming 360P works ok on Tiger, downloading 1080P and adding audio returned this error:

View attachment 896945

On Leopard, I tested streaming 360P and downloading 1080P and they're fine.

No more options have been added yet - is that correct, as the menu appears the same as before?

View attachment 896946


Oh and the 1080P video played back with framedropping on my Powerbook with Coreplayer and MPlayer.
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Test 2 is here (Removed)
I made sure it linked libiconv 5.0.
 
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On Tiger streaming 360P works but it errors out with the 1080P download - nothing reported in Terminal window but I've attached the output from Console.
 

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Ok, so I tried to install this and it didn't quite work out. I tried following the READMEs but I sort of got lost along the way. >.>

Can someone help explain it in a way that I can understand? I'm reasonably knowledgeable about PPC Macs and such, but this seems to be eluding my grasp.

EDIT: Sorry, I have no idea what I was doing. I'll get back to you tomorrow morning about if I need help or not. Right now I just need sleep. >.>
 
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Tried out PPC Media Center versions 7.0.1 and 7.0.2 on my G4 running 10.5.8 and whether I try streaming the video or downloading it, I always get the following error message:

-bash: /Applications/PPC-Media-Center.app/bin/python2.7: No such file or directory
 
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@MacFoxG4 That happened the first time I used PPC Media Center 7, because I removed the dashes, assuming it could function without them.

It must be located in the Applications folder, and be named PPC-Media-Center. Is this indeed the case for you?
 
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@MacFoxG4 That happened the first time I used PPC Media Center 7, because I removed the dashes, assuming it could function without them.

It must be located in the Applications folder, and be named PPC-Media-Center. Is this indeed the case for you?
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I didn't realize it had to be in the applications folder, thanks for pointing that out. It works great now that I have it in the applications folder! Both streaming and downloading work.
 
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Well, after getting some sleep and rereading the directions better, I figured out where I went wrong.

So I downloaded the source because I am on Tiger and tried to compile it (I've never successfully compiled something before) and I got these errors. Anyone know what these errors mean and how they can be solved?

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RogerWilco6502 said:
Well, after getting some sleep and rereading the directions better, I figured out where I went wrong.

So I downloaded the source because I am on Tiger and tried to compile it (I've never successfully compiled something before) and I got these errors. Anyone know what these errors mean and how they can be solved?

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The build script didn’t account for tar not knowing how to decompress then extract files (tiger tar is so old that it did not support this).

To fix it, you have to add z to -xvf for gzip extraction and j to -xvf for bzip2 file extraction. If this seems daunting to you just wait it out till later today, I have a build script that fixes this and a working compiled tiger build that should support G3+ coming out.
 
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alex_free said:
The build script didn’t account for tar not knowing how to decompressextract files (tiger tar is so old that it did not support this).

Just wait it out till later today, I have a build script that fixes this and a working compiled tiger build that should support G3+ coming out.
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Ok, thanks! :D
 
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MacFoxG4 said:
I didn't realize it had to be in the applications folder, thanks for pointing that out. It works great now that I have it in the applications folder! Both streaming and downloading work.
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TODO: add a check to see if it’s in the correct location in the next update.
 
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RogerWilco6502 said:
Ok, thanks! :D
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Tiger build is out let me know how it goes
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On Tiger streaming 360P works but it errors out with the 1080P download - nothing reported in Terminal window but I've attached the output from Console.
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Tiger/G3+ build is out, I’m currently downloading panther (2hrs to go, archive.org was the only place with the Mac Mini Panther DVD) to see if the Tiger build works on 10.3.9. Let me know if you have issues and if it works on Panther for you.
 
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alex_free said:
Tiger build is out let me know how it goes
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Tiger/G3+ build is out, I’m currently downloading panther (2hrs to go, archive.org was the only place with the Mac Mini Panther DVD) to see if the Tiger build works on 10.3.9. Let me know if you have issues and if it works on Panther for you.
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Everything works on Tiger for me! Thanks for the build! :D
 
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