[ydl-gen] No video hardware acceleration on PS3

[Warren Nagourney]

 From what I have seen of the several videos of both YDL and Fedora  
Core distributions on the PS3, I am cautiously optimistic. The  
graphics seemed faster than one would expect from just a framebuffer  
and I think I can live with it as both a computer for mundane uses  
(web browsing, email, etc.) and software development on the Cell (my  
main interest). It just might serve as a platform for me to migrate  
to after Apple's unfortunate recent switch of architectures. Possible  
support of the hardware might come latter, though I am not holding my  
breath (until then, I can do my number crunching on the PS3 and use  
my Powerbook for graphics via the 1000baseT connection).


On Dec 2, 2006, at 4:32 PM, thexder at insightbb.com wrote:

> 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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