![]() So, thanks to you, my son is completing his very expensive homework assignment.There are tons of video players available for different devices, so choosing the right one for your device isn’t an easy task. For other Tiger users, the one that worked was without an extension, those may work but this is the one that worked for me and I didn't bother trying the others. Your link was much better than what I tried on the Videolan site, thank you for pointing out version 0.9.10 for us Tiger users (iBooks can't run anything later than Tiger). Nice of those folks to keep it available even though they've moved on. I had to dl perian some time ago for another purpose and I was happy to see it again. No joy.īut some combination of those keywords got me to this post, bless your soul 1000 times. A lot of searching the web, a lot of discussions of codecs and graphics cards. OK so the first thing I did was try the same mp4 on my MacBook Air running OS 10.6.5, Quicktime 10.0, and confirmed that there is actually video, yes, there is. You also pointed us to some wonderful sw run by some great people. As I pondered buying him a new computer, aside from how wrong that is, there is no guarantee the videos will work on the latest and greatest system and how stupid would I feel after shelling out to have the same or new problems getting things to work for my kid. as long as you don't mind losing your privacy. Aside from how angry I am about the planned obsolescence everyone accepts and defends (go get a new computer, its too difficult for these companies to make their products backwards compatible. He's using my iBook G4, and the latest versions of Quicktime (7 something) and iTunes and Firefox wouldn't play these stinkin videos. ![]() My 7 year old got into an online honors program and although the demo video worked, after I paid $800 for the course, the lesson videos were green screen, no audio. You not only solved the problem and educated us, but also you did it in such a non-judgmental way. I just had to thank you, thank you, thank you. (had to add those words hoping it will help someone else.) Green Screen MP4, no video OS X Quicktime The difference between MPEG-4 and MP4 in your case will be the codec in the file - essentially how the video file is stored and played back - it's likely the MPEG-4 file was using a codec your Powerbook didn't have hence the green screen.īear in mind that video files available online now use codecs that weren't mainstream when the Powerbook was made, so are either unplayable or difficult to play on it - however, if you're patient there are plenty of tools available to convert video into more agreeable formats that fly on PPC. I've found the best player to be XBMC (version 11 for PPC), however this is a media centre rather than a simple file player but it does appear to have the most powerful player engine. However, it may come as a surprise but Quicktime, despite being Apple software, is not the best video player for PPC Macs - VLC is much better - more efficent and readily tackles video files Quicktime can't. ![]() This is a pack of codecs that Quicktime can use to open formats that are not native to it - it's pretty comprehensive and tackles most things. Video playback on computers is a very murky world and having an old PPC adds a bit more difficulty due to the hardware.įor playback in Quicktime, install Perian:
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