[mythtv-users] 0.20 Mac PPC frontend on G4 550

[Jens Baumeister]

Hi!

On 10/5/06, Wade Maxfield <mythtv at hotblack.co.nz> wrote:

> On 10/4/06 Jens Baumeister wrote:
>
> >I have an old PowerBook G4 550Mhz with Mac OS X 10.4
[...]
> > In 0.19 the video would occasionally stutter but it'd play.
> >In 0.20 any attempt to play video times out with a black screen. I
> >tried playing around with setiing for frame skipping to no avail.
[...]
> I've got 0.20 running under OS X 10.4.7 on a PowerMac G4 533DP.
[...]
> Starting to playback takes about 8-12 seconds (compared to 6-8
> seconds on my G5), and switching menus is a fair bit slower as well,
> but once playing everything is fine.
>
> Your PowerBook would be a little slower but it should be able to handle it...

Thanks for your input, Wade, I tried using the exact settings you
mentioned in your mail, but I still get timeouts. I'll try starting
the frontend in Terminal (from within the bundle) some time this
weekend to see if tht yields any useful log data. (BTW: I'm connected
to the backend using 805.11g WLAN, but connection speed shouldn't be
the cuplrit, since my iBook uses the same method, and 0.20 works on it
just fine.)

Jens