MorphOS on Power Mac G5

[Fab]

Nice

Now, to respond in the manner I've come to expect of many the community:

This really sucks. Old hardware that's less powerful than my N year old PC. Bet there's no 64-bit support and dual G5 boxes are totally out...

And that's a valid statement, nothing to say against that (except that since it's old, there are more excuses for being slow .

[Fab]

But to answer your question, for one thing, I would hope they could play 1080p x264 streams. The Mac Mini does 720p (on MorphOS)

I think it can. Some quick test bigfoot was kind enough to perform indicated it was fast enough for the provided x264 clip, at least.
So, a G5 machine should a nice combo for viewing HD content during the cold winter nights, given its heating potential.

@Karlos

While it would be stupid to use a G5 machine + MorphOS just for HD content (since there are far better suited platforms or devices for that), it's not that stupid for people who actually use MorphOS as their main desktop operating system. MorphOS (and OS4 i hope) users don't all just play around with their windows and icons.

[Fab]

Can it.  Cool will have to give that a whirl on MorphOS.  through Mplayer ?

Yes, MPlayer. While a 720p H264 clip is totally unwatchable with VLC and slow with MPlayer on OSX, MPlayer on MorphOS can deal with it at full speed very often. But you'll still find some high profiles videos that will be slightly too demanding and will cause some audio desync, unfortunately (using -lavdopts skiploopfilter=all can help too).

In any case, it deals with that much better than OSX, and the only explanation for this is that OSX has a huge overhead in graphic rendering.

[Fab]

There isn't any current software that would greatly benefit from the extra processing power.

I hope I won't trigger an infinite loop by writing this.

But yes, there is current software that would greatly benefit from it (media players, encoders, web browsing / flash, emulators, ...). They are current, and often used, at least when you use MorphOS as your main system.

This doesn't mean the other points "against" Powermac G5 don't stand of course (consumption, noise, only a single core would be used on MorphOS and so on...).

I just strongly protest against this statement that no software would make use of it.