On 29/11/2009 17:54, Kris Douglas wrote: > 2009/11/29 Rob Beard<[email protected]>: > >> Tony Travis wrote: >> >>> Kris Douglas wrote: >>> >>> >>>> [...] >>>> The PS3 is perfectly powerful enouugh for playing HD videos, but they >>>> DELIBERATELY crippled linux in order for only PlayStation games to >>>> work. As far as I know, you have full access to the CPU, but graphics >>>> and BR are a no-go. Format a hard drive with Fat 32, i think a >>>> 1280x720 BR film loads in about 4 gig, which is the max file size for >>>> F32, then just check the format works, and play it through the PS3's >>>> own OS. >>>> >>>> >>> Hello, Kris. >>> >>> I don't think that's quite right, at least for YDL: >>> >>> from: http://www.ydl.net/support/hardware/sony.shtml >>> >>> >>> >>>> Sony PS3 40GB, 60GB, 80GB >>>> >>>> 1. Notes: The Nvidia graphics card is not supported beyond framebuffer >>>> mode. This does not reduce the quality of the image, but does not provide >>>> accelerated (3D) video nor OpenGL support. >>>> >>>> >>> Not that I'm suggesting using YDL as an alternative to Ubuntu ;-) >>> >>> [I've got Hardy on my iMac] >>> >>> >> I'm still tempted to go down the PS3 route, although I may just put >> together an old PC with a newer NVidia graphics card for media playback >> (other than Bluray). >> >> Rob >> > I didn't say the graphics didn't work, but try playing HD on an > un-accelerated graphics card. > > Yep, I know what you mean, playing HD stuff on Ubuntu 9.04 with Intel graphics :-)
What I want to do eventually is build a PC to run MythBuntu, I've got an older Dell GX280 kicking around which I'm not doing anything with which would probably make a nice PC for playing HD stuff on with an NVidia graphics card in there using VAPDU. It currently does do HD just with a few dropped frames. I'm thinking I could use that for general PVR use and then the PS3 for games and Bluray movies and a bit of tinkering around with Linux :-) Rob -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
