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PS3 - Linux performance?
Mr_Grinch
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Apologies if this should have gone in the Linux thread but I figured it was specialist enough to be given it's own.
I'm thinking of upgrading the harddrive in my PS3, and being I'm doing that I thought I'd install Linux too. Has anyone here tried it? What's the performance like? Is it worth my time to bother?
I'm debating Yellow Dog Linux 6.1 (I hear it has an improved vram driver that allows you to use the 256mb as a swap file, vastly increasing performance). The main reasoning behind it is that:
a) I figure it'd be fun to try
b) I've very little knowledge of linux at the moment and I'd like to fix that (without messing around with my main base unit that my SO uses)
c) If performance is good enough I'd like to try streaming some HD .mkvs to it (although I doubt I'll be able to).
So, has anyone any experience with this?
I'm thinking of upgrading the harddrive in my PS3, and being I'm doing that I thought I'd install Linux too. Has anyone here tried it? What's the performance like? Is it worth my time to bother?
I'm debating Yellow Dog Linux 6.1 (I hear it has an improved vram driver that allows you to use the 256mb as a swap file, vastly increasing performance). The main reasoning behind it is that:
a) I figure it'd be fun to try
b) I've very little knowledge of linux at the moment and I'd like to fix that (without messing around with my main base unit that my SO uses)
c) If performance is good enough I'd like to try streaming some HD .mkvs to it (although I doubt I'll be able to).
So, has anyone any experience with this?
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If the reason you're mainly doing this is to play .mkv, you could do what I do: mkv is just a container, if the video is H264 or such you can repackage it in say an .mp4 which the PS3 can handle natively. My way is scripted and convoluted for most people, I'd recommend one of the many tools out there that help with converting video for the PS3 but I don't know which one by name would do exactly what you want. I'm pretty sure it exists though.
a) Internet says it won't.
b) You could install to an external HD or an extra internal HD if you got an old spare. Install while the main HD is unplugged so Linux won't interfere with Windows. Most newer motherboards have a menu for choosing boot drive later with a F key.
c) http://www.3r1c.eu/mkv2vob/mkv2vob.exe converts h264/mkv files to h264/vob which a PS3 accepts. (vob is the wrapper used in DVDs. Works like a charm)
Also yep, I currently use mkv2vob to repackage mkvs, it's just unfortunately not great with 1080p resolution stuff. Is there anyway to repackage it easily short of transcoding the entire video (As mkv2vob does)?
Which leads me on to one of the other reasons I was going to put Linux on my PS3. Being my main desktop is pretty underpowered it takes me an awfully long time to transcode video files. I would have assumed the PS3 would be a bit better at this?
And the final reason, is that I fancied ripping all my Blu-Ray films to a rather large hard-drive and stream them. Can you access the blu-ray drive fine through linux? Judging by the above comments I may just buy myself a Blu-Ray drive for my PC and save myself the hassle.
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SUPER is another program that can repackage video without transcoding.