Veetle
x264
In Safari, on a PowerBook, I can watch x264 Veetle HD. In TenFourFox, it defaults to Flash player. I know plugins are disabled, but considering it's still active I figured I'd ask.
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1 Posted by x264 on May 09, 2012 @ 06:06 AM
(I've enabled plugins but Veetle still behaves as if I haven't)
Support Staff 2 Posted by Chris (chtrusch... on May 09, 2012 @ 07:35 AM
That's because Mozilla products don't support the h.264 codec (yet). Only Web.M is supported natively in the browser because it's a free codec, unlike h.264, which requires license fees. Mozilla, however, has realized that Web.M isn't as widely used on the web as they intended, and has recently changed their policy. Software for mobile devices will get h.264 support, and Firefox/TenFourFox may get it as well, but we don't know that for certain right now.
3 Posted by x264 on May 09, 2012 @ 05:04 PM
I know but veetle depends on a plugin that works in Fx on other platforms...
Support Staff 4 Posted by Chris (chtrusch... on May 09, 2012 @ 05:38 PM
Which plugin do you mean?
5 Posted by x264 on May 09, 2012 @ 06:01 PM
http://veetle.com/download.php/veetle-0.9.16-ppc.dmg
Support Staff 6 Posted by Chris (chtrusch... on May 09, 2012 @ 06:16 PM
Does the plugin work for you in Firefox 3.6.x?
I'm on my production system right now, so I'm not going to install and test the plugin. I'll try it on another Mac later this evening.
Support Staff 7 Posted by Cameron Kaiser on May 09, 2012 @ 06:20 PM
Even if it does work in 3.6, the plugin environment has changed dramatically, and TenFourFox doesn't support plugins of any kind any more anyway. You might report the issue to Veetle, but it's still an unsupported configuration for us.
If you couldn't live without it, OmniWeb would be a better choice than Safari and still gets updates, at least for the time being. Camino would also be an alternative.
8 Posted by x264 on May 09, 2012 @ 06:34 PM
Personally I use:
http://code.google.com/p/leopard-webkit/
It's really the undisputed champion of streaming.
With either a Low Level Interpreter from them or H.264 support in TFF next to come the future seems bright for PPC.
Support Staff 9 Posted by Chris (chtrusch... on May 10, 2012 @ 10:28 AM
The Veetle plugins don't register correctly with TenFourFox (i.e., they're not even listed in the add-ons manager), only the VLC plugin that's contained in the bundle is recognized. It does, however, seem to work woth Safari 4.x and Firefox 3.6 (tested on 10.4.11).
In addition to what Cameron said: To me it doesn't look like this is TFF's fault; even if unsupported, plugins in general still work in TFF if they manage to register correctly. The Veetle developers would probably need to adjust their software to work with newer Firefox/Tenfourfox versions on PPC.
10 Posted by x264 on May 11, 2012 @ 05:36 PM
On the bright side it works with Tiger. All that's left is tiger-webkit...
Support Staff 11 Posted by Chris (chtrusch... on May 30, 2012 @ 06:01 PM
Please re-open if necessary.
Chris (chtrusch) closed this discussion on May 30, 2012 @ 06:01 PM.