[mythtv-users] OtherOS: Linux on PS3 with direct hardware access

[Andre]

On 6 May 2011, at 17:05, James Oltman wrote:

> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:52 AM, James Oltman <cnlibmyth at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the issue will still be drivers.  While they have access to the hardware, creating drivers for the GPUs will be difficult.  And without that, the PS3 is just a super fast calculator.
> 
> One interesting thing that could come of this is the use of the PS3 as a way to do SUPER fast transcoding of video.  Perhaps even on the fly transcoding of BluRay video (M2TS to something smaller).  That'd be something I'd use no doubt.

Without a lot more parallelisation than currently present in ffmpeg for example and some serious code optimisation for the cell you'd probably get quicker transcoding on an Atom!

Now if you could get access to the video and audio playback libraries, code a new playback method into myth, oh and fix the fact that the PS3 can't play some current h264 streams (BBCHD) and when it can play it crashes an awful lot. Sort all that out and it would make a great, if expensive and power hungry mythfrontend. ;-)

I'd love to use my PS3 as a myth frontend but sadly myth with vdpau left it behind a year or so ago.

Andre