Quicktime Broadcaster on iBook Clamshell (G3-466Mhz-FireWire-520MB) ?

All,
Not sure if this is the right place to post that - can't find any other...
I have an opportunity to acquire an iBook Clamshell or a good price. It has 466MGZ, 512MB RAM, 8MB Vid, and a 10GB HD - Model M6411;
I want to use it to run Quicktime Broadcaster to live encode video from a FW device; The hardware requirements on the broadcater homepage are PPCG3 - 128MB - but they recommend intel or G5 for H.264 encoding. I know for afact that a G4 1.2 is enough to do it.. ;but what about the G3 specs ...?
any idea or advice ?
thanks
laurent

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