[Jacques]

Sounds like it's power supply yeah. Which is a bummer as they are quite difficult to come by these days. :(

Have you tried pulling the drives, CDROM/DVD rom and turning it on with only minimal hardware? Have you disconnected it from the all socket for a few minutes and tried again?

[necron2600]

I watch youtube videos on IRIX (Octane2) all the time streaming with curl, youtube-dl, and mplayer.

Browse youtube.com with firefox/links/or dillo which is not pretty in IRIX but it can get you the titles and video URL.. (or search for what you want in Google search).. and then copy the youtube URL value for the v= variable (URL is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EEY87HAHzk as an example.. so copy 9EEY87HAHzk) with the following script that I named 'watch.sh'

watch.sh 9EEY87HAHzk

It takes several seconds to start the video as it is caching the stream, but when it starts it plays the video in a window very well.

#!/usr/nekoware/bin/bash
VIDEON=$(youtube-dl -g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$1)
#curl -L "$VIDEON" | mplayer -vo fbdev2 -cache-min 40 -cache 8192 -vf scale=640:480 -
curl -L "$VIDEON" | mplayer -

Note (Note, I have mplayer using a default custom configuration of mine.. yet I have a commented out line that shows you an example setting a config in there). You may want to use something like:

curl -L "$VIDEON" | mplayer -cache 18192 -vo gl_nosw -ao sgi -framedrop -lavdopts lowres=0:fast:skiploopfilter=all -autosync 60 -audiofile-cache 10240 -

I also use mplayer-1.1.1 that was compiled by a nekochanner outside of nekoware posted on nekochan before. But the regular nekoware mplayer may work fine too.

[heavyfuel]

Final point, I would strongly advise against considering any real form of modern web browsing on an SGI machine. They're simply too old for it, and modern browsers are an absolute nightmare to port (hence Firefox 3 is the latest we have - and even then it is very slow). You're far better off using rdesktop to remote to a PC or something and browse that way, or browse properly on a PC and use your SGI for other purposes.

What exactly makes it hard to port browsers to new architectures/systems?

On Irix, the lack of modern libraries and compilers at least.

But how about Linux or modern BSDs on SGI MIPS systems?

Is it because of hardware acceleration or video decoding? Aren't there fallback options when suitable HW APIs aren't available?

Javascript JIT compiling? Again, fall back to interpretation?

Are other browsers easier than Firefox or Chromium?

[commodorejohn]

Actual browser developers would have to weigh in, but the big ones (aside from high-bitrate web video, which is at least nonessential) are Javascript and modern encryption standards. If you look at classichasclass's technical discussions on the TenFourFox development blog, a vast amount of what goes into making that sucker usable for modern-ish browsing on G4/G5 Macs is in keeping the Javascript JIT both up-to-date and performant; even then, using NoScript to cut 95% of the crap modern web developers pile into their pages is an absolute necessity.

[Jacques]

The internet is 99% shit these days, most of it advertising.