Re: Couple of G4 dig. Audio Issues
At 2:23 PM -0800 1/2/2011, DLC wrote: Apparently, he wants to replicate the lock screen action found on Windows (I believe it is the MS key plus l - I really am not sure what that does except maybe do a quick screen blank which requires password entry upon wakeup) - short of logging out or invoking the screen saver, I was not aware of such an action on OS X (his unit is on 10.4.11). I've seen some 3rd party applets that will do a blank screen; check MacUpdate. *shrug* IMO, better to just enable the password to get out of the screen saver. Then the user can shove the mouse into the activate hot-corner and it's ON. His report on command-option-q is above, but I cannot replicate it on my Tiger iBook. cmd-opt-q does nothing on my Mac either. cmd-shift-q is logout tho. The popular You Tube stuttering issue - again, he is using Fire Fox (latest flavor I presume) in OS 10.4.11 on a 733MHz Dig. Audio, which is equipped w/ 1.5 Gb RAM and a 64 Mb NVidia TwinView video card pulled from a 800MHz DP QuickSilver. The main cause of YouTube stutter is network throughput. On my QuickSilver, I've seen YouTube's flash go smoothly when I'm getting a steady 800+ Kbps throughput. But if it dips lower, things start stuttering badly. Try adding fmt=5 to the YouTube urls. This tells YouTube to serve up a lower compression / resolution video, that is often easier for older machines to render. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Couple of G4 dig. Audio Issues
Greetings all, I hope these are a couple of easy issues. I gave a G4 Dig. Audio to a mac newbie, and he has been having a couple of questions. Here is a quote from his latest response: Hey, Thanks for the reply and happy new year as well. I looked into the locking issue. I found that if you press option+apple+q it will lock the screen, but i noticed that it will close all aplications. Is there a way to change that and to change the keyboard buttons pressed to lock screen? and the videos are all youtube and they are loaded on the youtube site from firefox. During and after buffering video seems to jump around still. Thanks (end quote) Item 1 - Apparently, he wants to replicate the lock screen action found on Windows (I believe it is the MS key plus l - I really am not sure what that does except maybe do a quick screen blank which requires password entry upon wakeup) - short of logging out or invoking the screen saver, I was not aware of such an action on OS X (his unit is on 10.4.11). His report on command-option-q is above, but I cannot replicate it on my Tiger iBook. Any thoughts? Item 2 - The popular You Tube stuttering issue - again, he is using Fire Fox (latest flavor I presume) in OS 10.4.11 on a 733MHz Dig. Audio, which is equipped w/ 1.5 Gb RAM and a 64 Mb NVidia TwinView video card pulled from a 800MHz DP QuickSilver. I seem to remember some 3rd party add-ons for FF that addressed helping this issue. Any thoughts on this? (BTW, I did install Perian on the unit before giving it to him). Thank you for any thoughts, Dana -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
