Optimizing video playback with mplayer-ps3
Progress is being made on video playback for the PS3, and we now have .debs for a PS3-patched MPlayer for PSUbuntu.
Follow the instructions on nomegos Optimizing the Ubuntu PS3 experience page, and you should be able to watch videos with better performance running the command
mplayer-ps3 -vo ps3 -fs filename
from the terminal.
WizzyWizz said
am November 12 2007 @ 7:15 pm
Way cool!
ethana2 said
am December 1 2007 @ 1:25 pm
So does this use asynchronous multi core processing to decode the video?
Babylon5Fan said
am December 4 2007 @ 2:35 pm
ethana2 yes uses the ps3’s sub processing cores. Though they may not be fully optimized yet just a big improvement. Command should be run as sudo or in root user mode(not recommended) to get round a bug(will be fixed in later relese)
gue said
am December 22 2007 @ 5:18 am
Works for me as described!
Played video files from a nfs share.
Had to install virtual packet nfs-client which depemds needed packages to mount a nfs share.
However when restarting the ps3 it stopped during bootings when trying to start nfs-common in /etc/init.d
Disabled in rc.S and rc.2 with kboot:
Can be accessed via kboot after remounting rw:
kboot: sh
# mount -o remount,rw /mnt/root
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