[ydl-gen] Petition to open RSX for "other OS"

[Warren Nagourney]

I agree with Brian. The combination of BD player and Cell platform is  
hard to beat for the money. I personally find the linux hard to use  
except via ssh, but I am very sensitive to the tearing and slow  
refresh when moving windows (not to mention the fuzzy scaled video,  
but this is not a speed issue).

I wouldn't exactly call the linux fast - the slow video combined with  
a slow HD makes it about as fast as a linux I installed on a Mac 7600  
(200 MHz 604e). I am surprised it can play HD video smoothly. Even  
without RSX support, some use of the SPUs would be appreciated (about  
85% of the chip is sitting idle).

Warren Nagourney

On Apr 19, 2007, at 7:22 AM, Brian Wood wrote:

>
> On Apr 19, 2007, at 7:55 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> So far the only official communication that we have is on a
>> Terrasoft interview
>> on the GDC earlier this year.
>>
>> Me personally I will only invest money on the PS3 IF the RSX gets  
>> some
>> form of support. Otherwise I'll just stick with the PS2 Linux and
>> eventually
>> move to XNA.
>>
>> Sorry but I don't buy into the PS3 Linux better than PS2 Linux
>> thing. The
>> distribution is more up to date, true. However the PS2 version
>> supports the
>> hardware a way lot better (not 100% but better than the PS3 case).
>>
>
> I guess everyone has different priorities. I was looking for a Blu-
> Ray player. The cheapest one I could find was the 20GB PS3, and I got
> a great Linux box thrown in as well.
>
> Even with only frame-buffer type video support the machine is fast
> enough to push HD video to my 32" LCD via HDMI, so why would I need
> anything faster? I don't want to play games or do fancy video effects.
>
> I'm looking primarily to transcode MPEG2 files created by my Myth
> system to various other codecs, and I don't need video output from
> the PS3 to do that, I simply ssh into the PS3 and tell it what to do
> with a command line. Even at this early point it is faster at
> transcoding than my dual-core AMD FX60, by a significant factor.
>
> If better graphics support comes along I'll certainly be happy, but
> for the money I just don't see any better deals out there for what I
> want. Sony is subsidizing me in the hope I will buy games, which I
> won't, it's not often you get the better end of a deal with a multi-
> billion-dollar corporation.
>
> The only real potential problem to my mind is the power consumption/
> heat output, but I can deal with that.
>
> The only other problem is keeping my teenage nephews away, they seem
> to think the machine was made to play video games or something.
>
> I have machines with accelerated video, until now what I didn't have
> was a cel engine to play with or a BR player :-)
>
> Brian Wood
> beww at beww.org
>
>
>
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