<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Matt Emmott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:memmott@gmail.com">memmott@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:05 PM, James Oltman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cnlibmyth@gmail.com" target="_blank">cnlibmyth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:52 AM, James Oltman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cnlibmyth@gmail.com" target="_blank">cnlibmyth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><div></div>I think the issue will still be drivers. While they have access to the hardware, creating drivers for the GPUs will be difficult. And without that, the PS3 is just a super fast calculator.<br>
</div></blockquote></div><br></div>One interesting thing that could come of this is the use of the PS3 as a way to do SUPER fast transcoding of video. Perhaps even on the fly transcoding of BluRay video (M2TS to something smaller). That'd be something I'd use no doubt.<br>
<br></blockquote></div></div><div><br>That would be epic - What would give it that capability? The raw CPU power? <br></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br>That is just a theory. But the PS3 is VERY powerful. There's got to be a reason the Air Force uses them in a cluster for super computing capabilities. But FFMPEG would have to be written for the architecture, which as the person above states, is not a trivial task.<br>