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Graveyard:
Hey guys. I was wonering if any o you have experience in converting movies to be watched on older machines like the iMac G3 or old iBooks. I am planning to convert some movies for a friend of mine that has one of my old iMacs. He's using both OS9 and Tiger. I am more interested in the OS9 part. What player would you use and how would you convert the files, in which format? I'll be doing the video conversion on my i5 iMac so it doesn't take ages.

supernova777:
im not sure id want to use a g3 for that!!
i use an ipad first generation for watching vids on my local network.
im stuck using this app called AVplayerHD and it always crashes watching videos over the network
but its cool u can also connect to the ipad via FTP + upload movie files directly onto the ipad..
i STILL cant install VLC on the stupid thing because the new version requires iOS 6+ and im stuck using iOS 5.1.1
(typical apple tactics bullshit to make u buy a new one when u dont need to)


anyway.. maybe someone else has some ideas for u mr graveyard!
i would think any workable solution for video watching on a g3 would be very reliant upon hardware accelleration
and what format you are decoding better not require too much cpu;)

Graveyard:
I still have some really old discs with movies. I downloaded them ages ago when the G3 was still in its prime. They are all encoded using divx. Maybe i can find out the resolution, bitrate and codec they were made with since all of them play perfectly on the G3.

supernova777:

--- Quote from: Graveyard on March 21, 2014, 04:51:37 AM ---I still have some really old discs with movies. I downloaded them ages ago when the G3 was still in its prime. They are all encoded using divx. Maybe i can find out the resolution, bitrate and codec they were made with since all of them play perfectly on the G3.

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sure u can do that, but personally, if i had a g3 i wouldnt try to do Multimedia type things with it...
in my mind, g3s = MIDI tracking, sequencing... or doing text programming work.. actual coding..
rock some applescript;) or help us hack some rom firmwares;D
watching movies is for the tired, stoned,drunk+ braindead;) lol
jk i watch movies;P actually i tend to watch full seasons of 90s shows because im nostalgic about the 90s;)
but honestly i bet my ipad decodes movies better then a g3 would.. maybe not if it had a 1ghz zif upgrade
+ A good radeon 9250 video card..
what video card do u have? are u talkin about ibook g3 or desktop g3?

Graveyard:
I gave this friend one of my G3 iMacs. 400MHz model. He can't afford anything else and i thought that since i had two of them, he could use one. If i could give him a newer one, i would have done so. So he'll have to use it for a while.

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