http://ps3mods.blogspot.com/2006/11/ps3-and-yellow-dog-linux-playing-1080i.html
Someone else might want to try this in order to verify the validity of the video. I'd love to besides the fact that I don't yet have a ps3. ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, December 2, 2006 19:24 Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] No video hardware acceleration on PS3 To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics <[email protected]> > > On Dec 2, 2006, at 4:26 PM, drbob wrote: > > > Warren Nagourney wrote: > > > > As a potential end user, one of my the biggest things that > excited me > > about the PS3 was the potential to use it as a High Definition > Mythtv> frontend. I'm now worried that this may not be possible. > > > > Framebuffer graphics are often inadequate to play back even a > standard> def mpeg on x86 hardware without a lot of skipped > frames and juddering > > in the picture. Does this news mean that PS3 Linux will be > pretty much > > useless for video playback in SD and/or HD? > > There was some brief discussion of this on the Myth user's list > the > other day. Without any accelerated video I think HD would be > pretty > much out of the question, and even SD would be questionable. > > So at least for now it's not a viable HD frontend. Too bad, it > would > have been great, but things might well change in the future. > If > somebody were to develop commercial video drivers under an NDA > I'd > certainly consider paying for them. I paid for commercial Mach- > 64 > drivers back when that was the only way to get those cards to > work > properly in Linux. > > I believe in Open Source but I'm not a fanatic about it :-) > > Terrasoft has certainly taken the first step, without which no > future > progress would even be thinkable. > > But first we have to get our hands on the hardware, and > competing > with all the gamers out there will be a trial :-) > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
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