On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Jonathan Ervine <jervine@novell.com> wrote:
Very true - I have a few files that are identified as DivX encoded that don't play. Running them through a transcoder can get them to play - accepting that there will be a further loss of quality. It's all a bit hit and miss with video encoding it seems - sadly.
The mailing list for the PS3 would be the PPC mailing list, since the Cell is basically a PPC chip with 8 streaming processors strapped on(and 1 is disabled by default, but only so it can serve as a backup in case one of the others were to fail. It's supposed to be hot swapped in from what I have read).
I've got a few 'mp4' labelled files that are listed as MPEG-4 encoded by various utilities. I've found these to be as hit and miss as my xvid/DivX files. Admittedly, I have a much smaller sample of mp4 compared to divx, I've actualyl found mp4 to be even more picky about playing.
You should be able to install MPlayer from the Packman repo or just compile it(my recommendation). It will handle any format you throw at it. VLC is a good alternative as well.
I suspect you could get equivalent performance from x86 hardware though at a similar cost? As far as I remember reading one of the cores is completely unavailable as it is solely for Sony to use to run the PS3 and as a security feature. It's a nice to do thing, but I ultimately found it a bit of waste of time ... after all I couldn't play Call of Duty or FIFA etc. whilst in Linux
Yes, but if you could make use of the streaming engines for stuff like video re-encoding, then it would be amazing. However, since I don't have one, I can't say if that is possible. What do you get when you run: cat /proc/cpuinfo As for the RAM issue, they have been able to make use of the video RAM as swap or something like that, and that makes a big difference from what I have heard. I've been debating picking one up, but it's a big out of my budget right now. And, the PS2, which can also run Linux, only has 32MB RAM. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org