Hello everyone,

I've spent a bit of time recently trying to get any flavour of software
squeezecenter player to run on the PS3, so far without any luck.

Has anyone actually managed this? It seems to me to be a useful thing
to do - the ps3 is hooked up to the stereo anyway, and is networked.
Should be perfect.

So far, I've installed XUbuntu 8.1, and tried the following:

1) I've attempted to run Softsqueeze. There's no Sun Java runtime for
PPC, so I've:
- Installed the Kaffe Java environment. I can start Softqueeze on
Kaffe, but get an error because of the non-existent libawt.so for Kaffe.
If I try to run headless, I avoid this error, but I have no idea how to
configure the sound device, as I can't get a listing of the devices so
that I can see the PS3's sound device name. Next step? Maybe play around
with the Softsqueeze source to get a headless device listing?
- Tried to install the IBM JVM. Don't seem to be able to get around
the absent libstdc++ v5 shared object, so unable to run the JVM. Next
step? No idea.

2) I've made a short attempt at building Squeezeslave, with no luck so
far. Lots of errors, all looks a bit beyond my abilities. Next step?
Might have another go with help from thread id 63457 (sorry, not allowed
to link in my first post)

3) I haven't tried Squeezeplay yet (in fact, I only realised that it
existed today). I'll have a try over the next couple of days.

4) I've tried Softsqueeze as an applet through the PS3's game OS
browser, but it seems that the PS3's "powered by Java" doesn't extend as
far as its web browser.

5) I've had a look at the BD-J Java hack. It may be possible to modify
Softsqueeze to run in this environment, but I don't think that it will
be straightforward. 

Any advice that anyone can provide would be much appreciated. BTW, I am
in no way wedded to XUbuntu, or any other OS. All I want is to get some
sort of squeeze player running.

Thanks,

Nathaniel


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