On Monday 05 January 2009 11:36:43 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
So, I think the PS3 is not showing any content it thinks is copyrighted. Even if is is fully legal.
No, I don't think this is true. In my experience however, the PS3 is incredibly picky when it comes to codecs. It can only handle a very limited subset. It has caused me no end of headaches for my movie library (I have ripped my DVDs to avis for easier access)
Thus my interest in openSUSE as an alternative.
I think it will be difficult. SUSE in general runs well, and for music you should be fine, but for movies, linux won't get full access to the graphics hardware, so there will be performance issues. I don't think you can comfortably watch movies there. I have heard rumours that a way has been found of gaining access to the gfx from linux, but I don't know the details.
I think the openSUSE PPC/PS3 install is quite well done. And surprisingly complete. Except for media players. There is a restricted media page at openSUSE that has a 1-click to add lots of these things. But the install fails as all the packages do not exist for PPC. Or at least they do not exist where the x86 packages are.
I suspect the main offender is w32codecs. You should be able to modify the package selection from the 1-click installer, to remove it. Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org