![]() He's using my iBook G4, and the latest versions of Quicktime (7 something) and iTunes and Firefox wouldn't play these stinkin videos. My 7 year old got into an online honors program and although the demo video worked, after I paid $800 for the course, the lesson videos were green screen, no audio. You not only solved the problem and educated us, but also you did it in such a non-judgmental way. I just had to thank you, thank you, thank you. ![]() (had to add those words hoping it will help someone else.) Green Screen MP4, no video OS X Quicktime The difference between MPEG-4 and MP4 in your case will be the codec in the file - essentially how the video file is stored and played back - it's likely the MPEG-4 file was using a codec your Powerbook didn't have hence the green screen.īear in mind that video files available online now use codecs that weren't mainstream when the Powerbook was made, so are either unplayable or difficult to play on it - however, if you're patient there are plenty of tools available to convert video into more agreeable formats that fly on PPC. I've found the best player to be XBMC (version 11 for PPC), however this is a media centre rather than a simple file player but it does appear to have the most powerful player engine. However, it may come as a surprise but Quicktime, despite being Apple software, is not the best video player for PPC Macs - VLC is much better - more efficent and readily tackles video files Quicktime can't. This is a pack of codecs that Quicktime can use to open formats that are not native to it - it's pretty comprehensive and tackles most things. Video playback on computers is a very murky world and having an old PPC adds a bit more difficulty due to the hardware.įor playback in Quicktime, install Perian:
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