68kTube - YouTube for Classic Macs

[techknight]

So does this mean the server side requires a Mac? or can it still run on windows? 

I am lacking in modern Mac equipment these days. 

 

[superpete]

Server-side is windows only at this point. If you want to use legacy codecs like Sorenson or video 1 you'll need quicktime installed. The rtsp support isn't published yet, but should talk to any rtsp server - I'm using DSS because there were a tonne of resources available.

 

[Knez]

Pete: I found a problem. I can only get H.263 working and I have narrowed it down to QTConverter. QuickTime is set up according to your documentation.

If I run QTConverter stand alone, it looks like it works like it should, but it doesn't actually create the output file. Tried it with your QTConverter test example.

I think this might be why only H.263 works right now.

Thanks for your great work BTW!

 

[superpete]

Thanks Knez. I'd say so. It looks for a profiles folder with XML files from QuickTime which describe the encoding settings. It could be that the encoder can't find those files for some reason.

Unrelated, I couldn't for the life of my get 68k QuickTime 3 or 4 to play files over HTTP (even with Toolbox calls). Knowing that it works through Quicktime I've added some simple web-views to the project so that you can browse it in Netscape 2+. The video below shows it working under Internet Explorer 5 on a G3 iMac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DjyyeEmFu8

I'll have a binary release in about a weeks time.

 

[TarableCode]

That is super cool, with my own experiments I could never get the video to embed and download at the same time because it would just hardlock the machine.

Looking forward to this for sure

 

[Erhoof]

Will you build new release with 68kTube web page?

 

[superpete]

I'll try get a release sorted by the end of the month.

 

[techknight]

Hoping it still works. Tried to watch youtube on my iMac G3 the other day and failed. YouTube may hae changed something, was using the camino mobile browser trick, and it tries to open in quicktime. QuickTime bails out with notfound after switching transports.