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

[Paulo Pinto]

Sorry guys but I live in Europe.

Here we only have the 60GB version at 600 euros!
And on top of that I would need to buy a proper HDMI
monitor as far as I know.

My computer related hobbies outside work are related
with gaming. So I won't give 1000 euros away just for
the cell processor.

But as Brian was saying different people, different needs.

Maybe the Net Yaroze and PS2 Linux experiences weren't
as good as expected. Don't know. What I know is that currently
only Microsoft is really looking to the homebrew community.

>From Sony we are only getting a kind of carrot and the doubt 
when it will support RSX if ever.

Cheers,
Paulo

Quoting Warren Nagourney <warren at phys.washington.edu>:

> 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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