68kTube Alpha

68kTube is a client/server application which allows Macitosh Computers with QuickTime 4.1 or later to stream video from YouTube.

What Works:

• Searching
• Transcoding
• Playing Videos

Installing

There is no binary distribution yet. However it should compile cleanly in Visual Studio 2015.

Requirements

Mac Side: At the moment, despite it's name a PPC Mac running Quicktime 4.1 or later and MacOs 7.1. You will also need OpenTransport installed and configured.

Server Side:

• Windows Server
• .NET 4.6
• QuickTime 7
• Lots of processing power

Debugging in Visual Studio

If your base-address is bound to all interfaces (the default - http://*), you will need to run Visual Studio as an Administrator to debug the server.

Tech

Technology Used (Server Side):

• FFMPEG
• QuickTime
• C# Base media File Format (https://basemedia.codeplex.com/)

Technology Used (Client Side):

• RealBasic 2.1.2
• HttpSocket 2.0 (http://www3.nd.edu/~jvanderk/rb/httpsocket.html)