[mythtv-users] PS3 as FrontEnd
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Sat Mar 17 00:08:31 UTC 2007
On Mar 16, 2007, at 5:52 PM, Matt Emmott wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> What was the resolution of the HD?
>
1920 x 1080, 24bpp, 24 fps 10001.5 kbps (1220.9 kbytes/s), MPEG-4 v2,
using ffmpeg to decode.
Using the X11 video output, looks like the machine is just plain fast
enough to play it without any help from the GPU, not even XV.
I will say that I could keep a cup of coffee hot on top of the thing
though :-)
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