[ydl-gen] No video hardware acceleration on PS3

[thexder at insightbb.com]

http://ps3mods.blogspot.com/2006/11/ps3-and-yellow-dog-linux-playing-1080i.html

Someone else might want to try this in order to verify the validity of the video.  I'd love to besides the fact that I don't yet have a ps3.

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Wood <beww at bresnan.net>
Date: Saturday, December 2, 2006 19:24
Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] No video hardware acceleration on PS3
To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics <yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>

> 
> On Dec 2, 2006, at 4:26 PM, drbob wrote:
> 
> > Warren Nagourney wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> 
> There was some brief discussion of this on the Myth user's list 
> the  
> other day. Without any accelerated video I think HD would be 
> pretty  
> much out of the question, and even SD would be questionable.
> 
> So at least for now it's not a viable HD frontend. Too bad, it 
> would  
> have been great, but things might well change in the future. 
> If  
> somebody were to develop commercial video drivers under an NDA 
> I'd  
> certainly consider paying for them. I paid for commercial Mach-
> 64  
> drivers back when that was the only way to get those cards to 
> work  
> properly in Linux.
> 
> I believe in Open Source but I'm not a fanatic about it :-)
> 
> Terrasoft has certainly taken the first step, without which no 
> future  
> progress would even be thinkable.
> 
> But first we have to get our hands on the hardware, and 
> competing  
> with all the gamers out there will be a trial :-)
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