I am looking for software to record my desktop.(PowerPC, Mac OS X) Does anyone know where I can get some?
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Mac OS X PowerPC desktop capture software
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Sorry forgot to set notifications on for the thread, Mac OS X.5 PPC. Looking for something free.
We kind of had this discussion before on 10.3, but the options are about the same on 10.5. Dedicated hardware is really the best solution to this problem. Free options for PPC are awful.
You might even get better quality than Snapz by Screen Sharing your PPC computer to an Intel Mac via ethernet and using QuickTime Player X on the Intel Mac (10.6+) to capture the window.
You might even get better quality than Snapz by Screen Sharing your PPC computer to an Intel Mac via ethernet and using QuickTime Player X on the Intel Mac (10.6+) to capture the window.
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To put it gently: Relatively few PowerPC computers have enough horsepower to do this well, especially if you're planning on recording anything else that might be "heavy" or might incur penalties on subsystems that screen recording will rely on, like, well, all of them.
VNC to a more modern machine who will only be doing the recording is one option. Another, probably better, option would be to get a really new computer (Sandy or Ivy Bridge or better) and use one of those USB video or game capture devices that accepts HDMI/VGA/DVI and run y our Mac through that for capturing.
If extremely low resolution (literally 640x480) is fine for your needs and your Mac has an analog output option, you may be able to consider recording to a DV/miniDV/digi8 camera or to an outboard settop DVD recorder and then imovie or handbrake the footage back in.
Here's what it looked like when I did it with my Pismo and a Canon GL2. I'm mostly sure this was done directly with a single S-Video cable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-UslsOQzdg&t=5s
Unfortunately, I don't know of any stand-alone HDMI/DVI/VGA recorders. Most work these days involving recording a computer screen involve a modern PC/Mac running a capture card, or a computer recording its own screen, which the modern CPUs and GPUs are basically good enough at doing on their own. (I have a ho-hum business desktop from 2011 with a modest GPU added in from four years ago and it's able to record and stream out its own display with a game running, with minimal trouble.)
VNC to a more modern machine who will only be doing the recording is one option. Another, probably better, option would be to get a really new computer (Sandy or Ivy Bridge or better) and use one of those USB video or game capture devices that accepts HDMI/VGA/DVI and run y our Mac through that for capturing.
If extremely low resolution (literally 640x480) is fine for your needs and your Mac has an analog output option, you may be able to consider recording to a DV/miniDV/digi8 camera or to an outboard settop DVD recorder and then imovie or handbrake the footage back in.
Here's what it looked like when I did it with my Pismo and a Canon GL2. I'm mostly sure this was done directly with a single S-Video cable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-UslsOQzdg&t=5s
Unfortunately, I don't know of any stand-alone HDMI/DVI/VGA recorders. Most work these days involving recording a computer screen involve a modern PC/Mac running a capture card, or a computer recording its own screen, which the modern CPUs and GPUs are basically good enough at doing on their own. (I have a ho-hum business desktop from 2011 with a modest GPU added in from four years ago and it's able to record and stream out its own display with a game running, with minimal trouble.)
Don't know why I did not get a notification, oh well.
Yeah, that's what I feared
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I can use S-video on my G4 but it's not up to modern standards.
Yeah, that's what I feared
. I can use S-video on my G4 but it's not up to modern standards.
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It might be worth trying out if your machine has dual CPUs (any software that old will be using CPUs exclusively for encoding) and if you have a second disk. Those two things should ease the most significant burdens.
There's nothing in the realm of freeware, but at this point Ambrosia probably won't even sell you a license to the relevant version of Snapz Pro, so it might be worth just "finding" it and trying out.
Another path to look down may be to see if there are any really ancient primordial version of OBS that might work. They would be extremely ancient and you'd have to spend a while clicking "Next" on the github releases page, and still might not work that well, just given the limitations of the hardware.
There's nothing in the realm of freeware, but at this point Ambrosia probably won't even sell you a license to the relevant version of Snapz Pro, so it might be worth just "finding" it and trying out.
Another path to look down may be to see if there are any really ancient primordial version of OBS that might work. They would be extremely ancient and you'd have to spend a while clicking "Next" on the github releases page, and still might not work that well, just given the limitations of the hardware.
I was just about to suggest this myself but I see I was solidly beaten to it. This might be a worthwhile thought if the thing you want to capture doesn't involve video games/video/etc. (IE, it should work fine if you want to make a video about driving a business application.) The VNC sharing capability is built into OS X from 10.4 onward.
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