[Mplayer-users] off topic: mp on ps2 ?

[Dan Hollis]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Gabucino wrote:
> It's the Question that drives us, Sascha Sommer :
> > As you know there is a special linux version for sonys Playstation 2
> > Even if I don't have such a thing and I will never buy one, it would be
> > interesting for me
> > to know if it would be possible to compile mplayer on such a thing and watch
> > movies with it. What do you think ?
> Did they release some tools to run it under an emulator? Last time I checked
> www.runix.ru they were only promising it (currently their server is down..)

the R5900 in the ps2 is very slow (about speed of a K6/233). mplayer would
be very painful on it, without lots of MIPS-specific asm-optimized-code.

-Dan
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[-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]


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