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I first read “B&W Macs” as meaning “Blue & White Power Mac G3s” and couldn’t figure out why full-motion video would be impressive. Anyway, this is awesome!
by glhaynes 5y ago
I first read “B&W Macs” as meaning “Blue & White Power Mac G3s” and couldn’t figure out why full-motion video would be impressive.
Anyway, this is awesome!
- II2II 5y agoBecause full motion video can be impressive on a Power Mac G3. I recall downloading a video from Apple's website soon after the introduction of the G4. Of course I still had a G3. The G3 struggled to play the video at a couple of frames per second. (In retrospect, the video was intended as a technology demonstration of codec quality and performance on the G4.)
- anthk 5y agoEh, if the G3 has altivec suport it could play XVid videos perfectly. If you got a MOV file with a MP4 video, OFC a G3 would struggle, but mplayer/mpv may be able to play it fastly if the resolution is under 720p if you skip the loop filter. EDIT: Ok, just for G4 and up. Understandable. Also, is NOT that impressive. You could watch XVid illegal rips just fine in 2002-2006. Heck, even a Pentium 2@450 with NetBSD could do that seamlessly.