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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12370 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > I have asked the MorphOS developers also to release a non-Altivec version
    > but unfortunately X5000 users are a minority so it was not worth the efforts...

    Even MorphOS users on X5000, Sam460, Pegasos I/II G3 and Efika PPC combined are probably only a small fraction of all MorphOS users. Nonetheless, I too would welcome a non-AltiVec version of the most recent MPlayer for MorphOS, especially as the only MorphOS platforms available new are X5000 and Sam460.
  • »01.04.25 - 10:30
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    jacadcaps
    Posts: 3195 from 2003/3/5
    From: Canada
    Youtube's website has gotten really slow lately. I'm exploring options to improve things a bit with Wayfarer.
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    matt3
    Posts: 743 from 2004/2/10
    Quote:

    Andreas_Wolf wrote:
    > A fast G5 will play media on par with 4.x with the GPU transcoding.

    No way. OS4 with A-Eon's drivers can decode and play 4k video with almost no CPU load, whereas 2.5-2.7 GHz G5 may struggle with decoding and playing 1080p video (i.e. ΒΌ of 4k's pixel count) in software, depending on codec, profile, bitrate etc.



    I was referring to a 2.5 or 2.7 G5 running MorphOS be similar in raw video playback to an x5000 running AmigaOS 4.x with the added on video drivers.

    So you are correct, I was playing 1080p on my 2.7 and spoke to a friend running similar media on his x5000 and the results were similar.
  • »01.04.25 - 13:51
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12370 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > I was referring to a 2.5 or 2.7 G5 running MorphOS be
    > similar in raw video playback to an x5000 running
    > AmigaOS 4.x with the added on video drivers.

    Yes, that's what I've understood.

    > I was playing 1080p on my 2.7 and spoke to a friend running
    > similar media on his x5000 and the results were similar.

    For a very loose definition of "similar", then. The G5 struggles with more demanding codecs, profiles and bitrates of 1080p videos. Also, the G5 CPU remains at maximum load constantly.
  • »01.04.25 - 15:30
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    Posts: 72 from 2023/12/1
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    Skateman wrote:
    Would something like Videovortex not be an option?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRp1RVTA4RI

    (sorry see it has been mentioned already)..



    Yeh I mentioned I use it in my 1st post and I do really like it.

    If the MorphOS Team Devs has looked into it, no idea, but yeh a "user friendly easy to install" app like Video Vortex for MorphOS would be sweet!

    The nice thing, for me since I dual boot, I can just switch to Amiga OS 4.1 when I need to do video viewing and then MorphOS for other, once I find that "other" I need. I am too new to MorphOS to say yet but will get there!

    TJ
  • »01.04.25 - 16:55
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    igracki
    Posts: 453 from 2003/2/25
    From: Berlin
    I just uploaded yt.rexx v3.4 to MorphOS storage, since Michael Trebilcock releases his yt.rexx v3.4 today.
    I also added ytSearch v0.6, a Hollywood Applet to search for youtube videos, it uses the yt.rexx script to play the videos.
  • »16.04.25 - 20:14
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  • Butterfly
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    Condor
    Posts: 100 from 2005/9/1
    From: Zagreb/Croatia
    This is a lame video of my MacMini running MorphOs/Wayfarer and more... :)
    Yes it is only 360p and I use mobile version of youtube (also used in OWB for long time and before Wayfarer because it is faster), but for old G4/1.42GHz this is pretty good with stable sound and framerate.
    Wayfarer is now more faster and stable then OWB, which was faster with Youtube few years ago.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RQW74hs7UGA&pp=ygURbW9ycGhvcy93YXlmcmFyZXI%3D
  • »17.04.25 - 11:27
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    matt3
    Posts: 743 from 2004/2/10
    Quote:

    Condor wrote:
    This is a lame video of my MacMini running MorphOs/Wayfarer and more... :)
    Yes it is only 360p and I use mobile version of youtube (also used in OWB for long time and before Wayfarer because it is faster), but for old G4/1.42GHz this is pretty good with stable sound and framerate.
    Wayfarer is now more faster and stable then OWB, which was faster with Youtube few years ago.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RQW74hs7UGA&pp=ygURbW9ycGhvcy93YXlmcmFyZXI%3D



    Very impressive for a old G4! Nice way to run a demo for good measure :).
  • »17.04.25 - 15:29
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    igracki
    Posts: 453 from 2003/2/25
    From: Berlin
    You can download yt.rexx v3.4 and the ytSearch.hwa v0.7 here because Papio is on vacation and can't update MorphOS-Storage.
  • »17.04.25 - 21:18
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