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

[Wade Maxfield]

>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

Can you try the PowerBook with wired ethernet?  Just to eliminate 
wireless as the culprit.  From memory TiBooks before the 1GHz 17" 
only had Airport (802.11b) not Airport Extreme (802.11g) cards.

  - Wade