[ydl-gen] PS3 Yellow Dog 5.02 DVD Playback XBox 360 HD-DVD drive is the solution

[Ron Rogers Jr.]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 22:34:30 -0400
"Thomas A. McGonagle" <tom at dataero.com> wrote:

> Hello Fellows,
>  After much research, I believe that the PS3's blue-ray DVD
> drive is in fact locked by the hypervisor. Not only can't you
> players (such as mplayer) decrypt the css, but you can't copy
> the VOB files off of the driver either.
> 

Yes, the PS2 Linux kit's RTE does something similar, you can
only read the files on PS2 and PS1 game discs from within Linux
on the kit.

>  Well guess what one possible work around is...XBox 360. Yep,
> you can plug in the external HD-DVD drive, and whamo you have
> got DVD player goodness on your Linux powered PS3.
> 
>  I wrote this up on my blog
> http://netlixir.typepad.com/3sty/2007/10/ps3-linux-360-h.html
> 


Yes, external drives get around the limitation.


CronoCloud (Ron Rogers Jr.)
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