<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I've just acquired a PS3 with Yellow Dog Linux installed.<br><br>There has been some discussion of using the PS3 as a Myth frontend,<br>and several folks, including me, were dubious about that working,<br>mainly because the nVidia graphic chip is only supported as a simple
<br>frame buffer.<br><br>However, I just compiled mplayer 1.0rc1-4.1.1 on the PS3, and I am<br>presently watching the HD version of "Elephant's Dream", and I can<br>only describe the picture as GORGEOUS on my 32" LCD, fed by the HDMI
<br>output of the PS3, no dropped frames and the motion is smooth as<br>silk. I'm playing the file via an NFS mount from a Gentoo box.<br><br>I'm running 40%-50% CPU load on both processors (the Linux kernel<br>sees the Cel as 2 CPUs, the subsidiary processors are handled a
<br>little differently). This is kernel 2.6.16-20061110.ydl.ps3, Yellow<br>Dog release 5.0 (Phoenix).<br><br>Obviously running a full F/E is a little different from mplayer, but<br>I am certainly optimistic at this point. Considering that you get a
<br>Blu-Ray player and a very nice computer for under $500 this is a deal<br>IMHO.<br><br>I got the "low-end" PS3 with the 20GB HDD and no WiFi or memory card<br>capability, as Linux does not support the built-in WiFi (yet) and if
<br>I wanted to read cards I could just hook up a card reader, no point<br>in paying Sony prices for those things.<br><br>Just thought some folks might be interested in this.<br><br>Brian Wood<br><a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">
beww@beww.org</a></blockquote><div><br>Thanks for the update, this is pretty promising. If the PS3 can play back HD content without the need for XVMC against the GPU then I don't see why it can't function pretty smoothly as a full-featured front end.
<br><br>What was the resolution of the HD? <br></div><br></div><br>