[ydl-gen] No video hardware acceleration on PS3

[drbob]

Warren Nagourney wrote:
> I was shocked and very disappointed to read that there is no hardware  
> acceleration of the video on the PS3 under linux. This is from the  
> docs at http://www.powerdeveloper.org/playstation.php .
> 
> Much of my interest was in doing OpenGL development of scientific  
> apps on the PS3. This new is shocking and has ended my interest in  
> getting a PS3 - I'll stick with OSX on my powerbook until this  
> changes (if ever).
> 
> -Warren Nagourney
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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?