ORF-TV-streams works now- WOW!

Only thing I notice: Useing W F several times, loading- and closing-time increases immediately.....
Clearing Cache helps a bit, but then we loose FavIcons and personal settings for different Websites (automatic login, etc.)

Oh man, another release, another great improvement! Thx man!

Amazing!!!

Just downloaded 1.17 onto my MacMini, purely as it popped up as available when I went to use YouTube and its blown me away.

Not only is YouTube at 720p possible on the MacMini (silent upgrade) but BBC iPlayer is working perfectly.

I always knew that Jacadcaps and the team would get there but never thought it would be so soon. Simply brilliant.

With new 1.17 national television playback works for me (klick). Wow, I am really impressed! Few weeks ago I only got some pixel garbage there but now it's smooth playback on my PowerBook without hogging the cpu too much. I did not expect this to change so fast! Thanks for your hard work Jaca!

Wayfarer crashed after some time (but continued to play the stream) and I got the occasion to send a bugreport with this excellent inbuilt bugreport tool.

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That website only plays media if MediaSource is enabled.

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Use the Network.sbar.

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No reason why it should.

Wayfarer 1.17 is now out.

- Media playback settings are now per-host
- Removed the media playback popup requester mode
- Various improvements in the player pipeline, including improved HLS

[ Edited by jacadcaps 06.05.2021 - 22:27 ]

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Here's a screenshot:

https://ibb.co/tPnDM76

Looks the same no matter what spoofing option i use.
How can i see, if a download is happening or not? I remember there was a network activity window on OWB, but could not find it in Wayfarer.
Changing Tabs back and forth has no effect at all.

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Wait, what? Isn't that the version you wrote about in those words:

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That's an interesting definition of 'works better than in later versions'.

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Thanks Cego for at least trying out

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Do you see the data being downloaded (activity on your network) for the video you triggered?

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I'm aware of that, it's just why does v1.12 get the video to play and yet the later versions don't allow it to play? It's just so you know how it reacts for me, and there does seem to be reason for optimism . . . when you get a moment to check further into other sites and Wayfarer's capabilities/further development.

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Not for the time being.

@Amigaharry2:
No idea why that'd cause such an effect, really.

@NewSense:
I'm still not testing formula1.com

formula1.com videoplayer won't be loaded on my setup. Wayfarer 1.16 and Peg2 1GHz. I get a blank area with the background pattern.

It's really weird that the Screenshot screenbar by "Ultragelb" was causing this issue, but it doesn't improve my viewing videos on formula1.com with v1.16, as only v1.12 allows videos to play on formula1.com with my MacMini G4 1.5GHz.

I solved the problem now and V1.16 playes videos as it should. The reason was not Wayfarer.
At moment I see no reason to downgrade. I mostly use G5 or G4 (1.67GHz) which have enough power to see YT "stutter-free" with astonishing low CPU-load - even on PEG2!. So I'm a bit surprised, that it does'nt do well on a Mini with a 1.4 GHz G4!
I also cannot really confirm that V1.12 was quicker - ok, I've no V1.12 left to compare now and maybe I don't remember right.....

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This is one of my points about version after v1.12 - none of them play video as well as the v1.12 release on my MacMini, so (to me at least) it does seem that later versions than v1.12 have lost something of their useability since that release.

@ Amigaharry2: I still have an archive of v1.12 if you need it to test it, though I feel sure jacadcaps has a copy of the archive as well.

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It seems you have Wayfarer v1.16 working OK now, is that correct? Have you tried to run a video on formula1.com on your systems?

I'd just like to know other users "mileage" for that site, as I can't get a video to play with a version later than v1.12.

When a video sequence on formula1.com loads just the circular loading arrow displays, but if you swap to another tab and then return back to that tab then the controls are displayed and the initial first video thumbnail is displayed, but that is repeated for every moment time-point of the video sequence - the thumbnail shows as 0:00 at every point on the video sequence timeline, so something is not allowing the video to display. The video data seems to be being downloaded, but it just doesn't get displayed on screen, no matter what settings I opt for.

Are there any plans to integrate an JS JIT compiler?
The old OWB JIT runs pretty fine on a 1GHz G4. Dont know how much sense it makes to optimize for such a CPU though...

@jacadcaps:
Found the reason: Hard to believe - but it was an old version of "Ultragelb" Screenshot-sbar. Seems that I've forgot to update it on this PB. Never thought that it could have such a crazy influence to Wayfarer.....

YT video plays fine here since day one, though I confirm 360p only available under safari/ipad spoofing (even after reloading the page). Not that I complain though, I am more than happy with its performance :)

However, there's something that still bugs me: can't you scroll a webpage left/right with left/right arrow keys (if it exceeds the visible width of Wayfarer's window)? I can scroll up/down (with up/down arrows) but not at any side. On OWB this seems to be working. Or it just happen only to me?

Btw, any news regarding dark mode to be enable as option?

Also, some times I get WkWebView.curlThread 100% CPU. But w/o any visible reason. I don't know if there is a log I can capture while this is happening. I mean, Wayfarer doesn't crash, so there is nothing to report, I just have to close the browser completely. Closing any affected tab doesn't do any trick, so I am forced for a complete quit/reload.

Pfft! It'srunning now. Reason was a incomatibility in Prefs/Env-arc/MUI. Killed all entries there and copied back only the content of
the ISO.
I don't know which entry exactly was the problem - I'm glad to solved it......

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No.

Good news:
I've made a 3.15-iso with my keyfile and cgxvideo.library inserted. After playing around with Wayfarer-settings it plays now videos!! Very strange, because I've tested it on my USB-installation, which contains also only the ISO.....
So I have now to figure out what's wrong with the installation on HD. Does Wayfarer save any configs outside its directory (except MUI)?
And a 2nd thing I've to test: Now the PB is connected with Ethernetcable - the other tests are done with WIFI/Atheros Device...

No idea, really. If 1.17/1.18 doesn't fix this, we'll have to try some targeted debugging.

Yes, I did all possible! What I also recognized: it takes a rel. long time till video is shown as "ready to play" (much longer then on the other PB).

Did you try pressing pause and then play? It sometimes helps if some internal states don't get correctly propagated.

Yes, is on!
I have a PEG2 3xG5, 2xMini, and 2xPB. All oft them do well, only this f***ing PB won't do. Everywhere the same installation. As I wrote above, it seems, that this PB is a bit "special". Not only the screenresolution is different to the 5,7-Series - also firmware has some "special issues" (e.g. if trying to boot from a USB-stick - won't create a runtime device, limited to <4GB-Sticks and some other funny things).
I think this is a problem of this special hardware.


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For some seconds I could now play a video (after killing all cache and settings-entries). But after first interaction (increasing sound) it stops and could not be started again. Also no any other video can be started now. It's like soemething blocks it. Very strange! I'll do some more tests.
Im not sure, but I think that this issue does'nt occur with Wayfarer 1.12. Unfortunately I have no V1.12 anymore to test....



[ Editiert durch Amigaharry2 05.05.2021 - 15:17 ]

@Amigaharry2

Is MediaSource support on or off?