[mythtv-users] PS3 keys

[Robert McNamara]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:00 PM, David Durham <david.durham.jr at gmail.com> wrote:
> So how does it decode videos from bluray discs which are obviously
> 1080p, and why would a linux app not be able to do the same?

Because having access to the hardware is not the same as having any
clue how to access all the registers, memory areas, and other bits and
pieces.  If it was anything but an awful, years-long process, then
drivers like nouveau would be worth a damn after all these years and
would provide worthwhile hardware acceleration-- but they're not, and
they don't.

Cue the people jumping all over me about how nouveau is "quite good"
and so on, but the reality is while they might be adequate for some
word processing, you'd never want to run graphically intensive apps
with them.  It's just a fact-- if you have to reverse engineer how a
piece of hardware works, it takes years, not days or weeks.  And the
rooting of a PS3 just means that process can begin.  Now extrapolate
the difficulty of writing from-scratch-without-reference-material code
to run one piece of hardware to include an entire custom system and
graphics hardware.

If the open source community was going to be able to do anything
worthwhile with the PS3 hardware, it will be years and years and years
from now.

Robert