[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on PS3?

[Rob Beard]

On 29/11/2009 17:54, Kris Douglas wrote:
> 2009/11/29 Rob Beard<rob at esdelle.co.uk>:
>    
>> Tony Travis wrote:
>>      
>>> Kris Douglas wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> [...]
>>>> The PS3 is perfectly powerful enouugh for playing HD videos, but they
>>>> DELIBERATELY crippled linux in order for only PlayStation games to
>>>> work. As far as I know, you have full access to the CPU, but graphics
>>>> and BR are a no-go. Format a hard drive with Fat 32, i think a
>>>> 1280x720 BR film loads in about 4 gig, which is the max file size for
>>>> F32, then just check the format works, and play it through the PS3's
>>>> own OS.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Hello, Kris.
>>>
>>> I don't think that's quite right, at least for YDL:
>>>
>>> from: http://www.ydl.net/support/hardware/sony.shtml
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Sony PS3 40GB, 60GB, 80GB
>>>>
>>>>     1. Notes: The Nvidia graphics card is not supported beyond framebuffer mode. This does not reduce the quality of the image, but does not provide accelerated (3D) video nor OpenGL support.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Not that I'm suggesting using YDL as an alternative to Ubuntu ;-)
>>>
>>> [I've got Hardy on my iMac]
>>>
>>>        
>> I'm still tempted to go down the PS3 route, although I may just put
>> together an old PC with a newer NVidia graphics card for media playback
>> (other than Bluray).
>>
>> Rob
>>      
> I didn't say the graphics didn't work, but try playing HD on an
> un-accelerated graphics card.
>
>    
Yep, I know what you mean, playing HD stuff on Ubuntu 9.04 with Intel 
graphics :-)

What I want to do eventually is build a PC to run MythBuntu, I've got an 
older Dell GX280 kicking around which I'm not doing anything with which 
would probably make a nice PC for playing HD stuff on with an NVidia 
graphics card in there using VAPDU.  It currently does do HD just with a 
few dropped frames.  I'm thinking I could use that for general PVR use 
and then the PS3 for games and Bluray movies and a bit of tinkering 
around with Linux :-)

Rob