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Which version of Quicktime do you use on your 68k?
I assume you actually mean mencoder.
If you consider recompiling, and using, a command-line tool less hassle than the procedure I outlined, then more power to you, man! Command lines and I parted ways long ago.
If you consider recompiling, and using, a command-line tool less hassle than the procedure I outlined, then more power to you, man! Command lines and I parted ways long ago.
I guess I stand alone in my fascination with bash. [I assume you actually mean mencoder.
If you consider recompiling, and using, a command-line tool less hassle than the procedure I outlined, then more power to you, man! Command lines and I parted ways long ago.
] ]'>But there is a gui frontend for mencoder. Go here and take a look. Already compiled for OS X too.
I've occasionally used ffmpegx, which includes mencoder/mplayer as among its modules. No cinepak support, though.
I don't really watch too many movies in cinepak, so for me, there's no particular need to streamline the process. In any event, there is a certain charm to using a low-end mac to produce content for viewing on a lower-end mac. But if I were to contemplate doing this on a regular basis, I'd definitely take a look at the link you generously provided. In the meantime, I just play Star Wars and Galaxy Quest ad nauseam on the old 550 I have in the corner of my office. It always provokes a two-step response:
1) Wow -- that looks like dog poop!
2) Oh -- that's a 33MHz '030? Wow -- that looks great!
If you do ever put together a "one-click" conversion tool that goes from, say, divx, into cinepak + IMA audio, let me know. That might get me off my brains and convert my copy of 2001 into Cinepak. There's a perverse retro appeal to watching that masterpiece on a computer with distinctly non-HAL abilities.
I don't really watch too many movies in cinepak, so for me, there's no particular need to streamline the process. In any event, there is a certain charm to using a low-end mac to produce content for viewing on a lower-end mac. But if I were to contemplate doing this on a regular basis, I'd definitely take a look at the link you generously provided. In the meantime, I just play Star Wars and Galaxy Quest ad nauseam on the old 550 I have in the corner of my office. It always provokes a two-step response:
1) Wow -- that looks like dog poop!
2) Oh -- that's a 33MHz '030? Wow -- that looks great!
If you do ever put together a "one-click" conversion tool that goes from, say, divx, into cinepak + IMA audio, let me know. That might get me off my brains and convert my copy of 2001 into Cinepak. There's a perverse retro appeal to watching that masterpiece on a computer with distinctly non-HAL abilities.
I was running QuickTime 4 on my Quadra 840AV (7.6.1), but I recently re-installed the OS and left it at QuickTime 2.5 for the time being. I have a suspicion the newer QuickTime version was impacting performance (not exactly sure though), so my plan for now is to leave it at 2.5 unless something comes up giving me a good reason to go back up to 4.0.
Which reminds me to ask: what sort of results can you expect from a machine with an Apple MPEG card or a 660/840AV, and what format(s) can they play?
I mean duh obviously MPEG-1 for the card, but what else? What's available to make use of the DSP on the AVs?
I mean duh obviously MPEG-1 for the card, but what else? What's available to make use of the DSP on the AVs?
What is the last version of QT you can use with Mac OS 8.1?
AFAIK, the MPEG card is used only for decoding MPEG-1. All other formats are handled in software by QT. As a result, you can find a situation where your Mac plays the more complex MPEG1 with grace, but chokes on Cinepak, for example.
The MPEG card is great for allowing stutter-free playback of VCDs. I'd love to figure out a way to shoehorn that into a Color Classic (properly modded with a motherboard that accommodates such a thing, of course), but that's for another day...
As for the most modern version of QT that's 8.1-compatible, that's QT5.x. It'll work with 7.5.5 through 9.2.2.
The MPEG card is great for allowing stutter-free playback of VCDs. I'd love to figure out a way to shoehorn that into a Color Classic (properly modded with a motherboard that accommodates such a thing, of course), but that's for another day...
As for the most modern version of QT that's 8.1-compatible, that's QT5.x. It'll work with 7.5.5 through 9.2.2.