“In ‘My multimedia Mac mini,’ I detailed the trial I had attempting to stream full-length movies from my Power Mac G5 to an Intel Mac mini via Front Row. Despite creating the fastest network possible as well as providing Front Row with the slimmest movies possible, it and iTunes refused to play them unless I created an alias of the original movie, mounted the network volume where that movie resided, and copied the alias to the mini’s Movies folder,” Christopher Breen reports for Macworld.
“Reader Scott Nichol got in touch and revealed the secret to successfully playing these movies via Front Row. That secret is that movies must have their streaming option enabled. When you rip a DVD via HandBrake, such an option isn’t enabled and Front Row chokes when it attempts to share it from another Mac,” Breen reports.
Full article with step-by-step instructions here.
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There is also a recent update you will need for OSX for no sharing trouble.
Just gotta wait for 802.11n-enabled networks – then Apple will likely make everything simpler.
I’ve tried to do this with eyeTV and VLC. 802.11g is too slow by the time you make the files small enough and turn off access by other programs its easier and better quality to burn it to a DVD.
Here is a simple solution to the ‘problem’. I use it to play ripped DVDs located on Power Mac G5 using wirelessly connected Mac mini. I rip DVDs using MacTheRipper (much faster than HandBrake) to G5’s HD. Connect Mac mini to G5 using AFP via 802.11g connection – AirPort. Fire up DVD Player on the mini and point it at VIDEO_TS folder of the ripped movie. All works like a charm, DVD quality (no compression!) over 56 kbps wireless. I may get 3-4 half second hiccups during entire playback, but that’s the only problem.
So I ask the whiner – WTF?!
MDN MW – trouble. Yeah, right!
I’ve kind of done the same thing watching movies wirelessly on my tibook. I conenct to my mac mini G4 “server” which has a firewire drive attached containing my movies. Works surprisingly well.
Whatever happened to “it just works?”
…really?
I use an old Beige G3 as a Replay TV server and stream wirelessly (802.11g) to my PowerBook G4 using QuickTime, all the time. Yes the quality is lower than DVD but just like the article said, “Streaming” must be enabled or nothing works.
If you want to try this, download the FREE “DVArchive” software. It turns your Mac into a software Replay TV (Tivo on steroids).
I use my Mac LCII to stream HD content all over the world.
I use a Mac Plus to edit HD movies – I can’t see what all the fuss is about.
I’ve always wanted to run virtual memory over AppleTalk.
Any tricks to that?
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G4 used as a mailbox
http://flickr.com/photos/digitaldust/88847257/in/pool-tuawrigs/
EFI based MacTel’s have no internet anonymity, pirates and privacy nuts, you have been warned.
Cable box to Mac instructions
http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2349&p=3
Where is the dynamic mesh?
Wow! A whopping 30% of Mac users have anti-virus software installed.
What are you fscking STUPID?
1: Mac OS X doesn’t need it
2: Root level installs are vulnerable to application exploits. OS updates break them and are buggy.
3: Tell your Piece of Shit Windows losers to clean their own filth off their files before sending to you.
“Where is the dynamic mesh?”
In MacDude’s double wide.
Billy Bob, guess that’s a gay name.
hehehehehe
(you know, bobbing head, giving head to a guy, head bob’s up and down, yuck yuck)
I was serious about the Beige G3. Just wanted to give a comparison of equipment that can do streaming. It’s usually the software that gives a problem.
-Original G3 233MHz overclocked to 300MHz
-100BaseT card installed
-Firewire card installed
-OS 10.3.9 installed using XPostfacto
-DVAchive 3.1
-300GB firewire drive that the TV shows are saved to.
I can stream them to any Mac on my private net or pull the firewire drive, hook it to my PowerBook and dump the individual shows into iMove for editing and off to iDVD for my permanent collection.
I like to see what the old Macs can do to be usefull before they are put to the curb.