Is there anyway to make a G5 iMac play youtube videos without buffering. I know flash doesn't support PPC anymore, I tried the flash hack and also using the tenfourfox browser but no joy. Really frustrating as I bought it for my dad for fathers day and youtube is the only thing he really uses it for! Any help appreciated, it has 2.0ghz processor, 2gb ram and 250gb hard drive.
YouTube has a pop up or setting for resolution. Have you tried playing YouTube videos at either 320p or 480p or even 720p?
The G5 will , probably, NOT play videos at 1080p, but not certain.
Thanks for the reply, no that is not the problem but think I have finally found a solution:
In Tenfourfox 17 install the quicktime enabler plugin and then instead of watching videos in flash, just right click and open them in Quicktime, no buffering, perfect!
YES!
I was going to recommend that method next as this is what I had to do when I used to run an older PowerMac G4!
Glad this has worked for you!
😉
Interesting but a G5 running Leopard currently uses TenFourFox version 24.
I know but apparently you cannot run plugins on the latest version but you can on version 17 (after a bit of tweaking).
Actually you can.
Open TenFourFox and type in the address bar: about:config (no spaces) and click return. This gives you a warning that it might harm the application. Ignore that and click on 'I'll be careful, I promise' and you get the config file that you can edit - with great care.
Look/search (scroll down) for: tenfourfox.plugins.enabled
Set it to true. (Double click it to toggle it)
Now close TenFourFox, open it again, and Flash will now work, as it now uses the plug-ins that Safari has stored.
I am using Flash 11.5.502.55 in TenFourFox and it works just fine.
I had actually already done that but still got the buffering so downgraded to version 17 (using the same 'aboutconfig" method) as I was told that the newer versions wont accept the enable quicktime plugin. So now I use version 17 and play the youtube clips through quicktime 7.55. Will try again in the newer version but didn't work last time. cheers.
Constant buffering when playing youtube videos on Imac G5
