I agree with Brian. The combination of BD player and Cell platform is hard to beat for the money. I personally find the linux hard to use except via ssh, but I am very sensitive to the tearing and slow refresh when moving windows (not to mention the fuzzy scaled video, but this is not a speed issue).
I wouldn't exactly call the linux fast - the slow video combined with a slow HD makes it about as fast as a linux I installed on a Mac 7600 (200 MHz 604e). I am surprised it can play HD video smoothly. Even without RSX support, some use of the SPUs would be appreciated (about 85% of the chip is sitting idle). Warren Nagourney On Apr 19, 2007, at 7:22 AM, Brian Wood wrote: > > On Apr 19, 2007, at 7:55 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote: > >> >> >> So far the only official communication that we have is on a >> Terrasoft interview >> on the GDC earlier this year. >> >> Me personally I will only invest money on the PS3 IF the RSX gets >> some >> form of support. Otherwise I'll just stick with the PS2 Linux and >> eventually >> move to XNA. >> >> Sorry but I don't buy into the PS3 Linux better than PS2 Linux >> thing. The >> distribution is more up to date, true. However the PS2 version >> supports the >> hardware a way lot better (not 100% but better than the PS3 case). >> > > I guess everyone has different priorities. I was looking for a Blu- > Ray player. The cheapest one I could find was the 20GB PS3, and I got > a great Linux box thrown in as well. > > Even with only frame-buffer type video support the machine is fast > enough to push HD video to my 32" LCD via HDMI, so why would I need > anything faster? I don't want to play games or do fancy video effects. > > I'm looking primarily to transcode MPEG2 files created by my Myth > system to various other codecs, and I don't need video output from > the PS3 to do that, I simply ssh into the PS3 and tell it what to do > with a command line. Even at this early point it is faster at > transcoding than my dual-core AMD FX60, by a significant factor. > > If better graphics support comes along I'll certainly be happy, but > for the money I just don't see any better deals out there for what I > want. Sony is subsidizing me in the hope I will buy games, which I > won't, it's not often you get the better end of a deal with a multi- > billion-dollar corporation. > > The only real potential problem to my mind is the power consumption/ > heat output, but I can deal with that. > > The only other problem is keeping my teenage nephews away, they seem > to think the machine was made to play video games or something. > > I have machines with accelerated video, until now what I didn't have > was a cel engine to play with or a BR player :-) > > Brian Wood > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > site:terrasoftsolutions.com' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
