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I have a Dual MDD as well, and some G5's to test the SW encoders. it will be interesting to see how well the HW encoder fairs.

No I'm running it on an M2 MacBook. It took around the same amount of time to encode the same file on QEMU and a QS Mac, about 58 sec. to encode a 38 sec. DV clip with the same settings. When I get the HW card I'll do some more extensive benchmarking.

When I get time I'll do some benchmarks on the MPEG2 hardware encoder you sent me vs QT's encoder and see what the results are, I have quite a few Mac's to test on. Sadly I don't have my PCI Passthrough machine setup or I could try the HW card on that too in QEMU.

You hit the nail right on the head, added a zero to the RAM sizes and it encoded the file just fine in Qemu. I'm copying a large file on the QS right now, but I'm sure that will work on a real Mac too.

I'm using QT 6.0.3 and the MPEG 2 Encoder install with DVD SP 1.5.1. Had not checked the RAM allocation to QT, but that should not really matter as nowhere in the readme does it say anything about needing to allocate more ram to QT. I'll give it a go tho and report back.

DV file is about 50MB it's on a QS 800Mhz with 1GB of ram, OS 9.2.2 with 900MB free RAM.

I've been trying to encode a DV file to MPEG2 via QT MPEG2 encoder but I always get the error 'There is not enough free memory available for encodeing' I've tried to Google search the error but no hits. Anyone know what this error maybe?

Can you elaborate on that a bit?

It seems to not require video acceleration or altivec, the test files I found playback just fine at full speed in Qemu even with the CPU set to a 604. https://alcorn.com/support/test-files/

Yes, the .qup is the QuickTime Update Package. Thanks all!

That has to be what it is, it has the same socket from what I can tell. 5 pins, then the tab and 6 pins.

The 7200/120 I had had a connector I never could figure out what it was on the logic board, could this be the same connector? It can be seen here just behind the Mac VGA connector, brown mini slot:

Can you elaborate on that? All I can find is the "QuickTimeMPEG2.component", is this the file I need for OS 9?

Was there ever a software solution to MPEG2 playback on Mac OS 9?

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-to-use-atx-power-supply-in-gigabit-digital-audio.261623/

Some of the Sapphire cards need to be under clocked a bit. If I recall correct lowing it about 25MHz on the core and VRAM normally does the trick.

Joe, do we have a list of what Macs can find USB disk and boot from them without patching and which ones can't? I remember I had a 400MHz DV iMac with a dead HD, and I put in a USB stick with an APM and OS 9 installed and I was able to just let the Mac boot and find that from the "?" icon. I...

Also I have had issues with some USB sticks not being bootable on PPC Macs at all. I've never figured out the rhyme or reasons of it.

Not all linux in stalls use a :tbxi as the boot loader. Most of the later ones use an EFL binary( grub.elf ).

Hmmm.... I'll have to dig out my Beige and check again, but I'm pretty sure the CDROM is SCSI, must have a very early production run.