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

[Arpi]

Hi,

> 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.

AFAIK ps2 has mpeg support in video card.
at least it can do idct.
(but without MC it's useless. i dunno about MV support in ps2)

and of course we need some ps2 machines for development/testing...


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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