Manoj Menon wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > I've been gifted a Sony PlayStation 3. Unfortunately I > am not much of a gamer, but I do remember reading > somewhere I can run Yellow Dog on it. >
The platform is supported, IIRC seeing some patches that went in to the Linux kernel. > Has anybody tried this yet ? > > For phase two of the project, I was thinking, I could > convert it into the ultimate home entertainment > system. > (it comes with a BlueRay drive). > > Your ideas and suggestions are welcome. > Couple of aspects. * the Blueray disc uses a MPEG2 Transport stream as a container for MPEG4/H.264 movies or even MPEG2 program streams. Well, you can use the VC-1 codec too as a container. decoding H.264 can be quite a task unless there is proper support for the decoder. AFAIK, the Linux kernel doesn't have support for any H.264/HD decoder as of this mail. it will be too large a task for the host CPU to decode such a beast. * the decryption (AACS) although available, not very straight forward. It is nice to have some feedback how you get ahead with it. Manu
