albator1932
29th August 2009, 17:22
Hi there,
I've been testing this for few days (a 14 days trial is available) : http://codecsys.fixstars.com/en/personal/
but it won't accept anything but 1080p/1080i AVI/MPEG-2 video input and WAV input, i've not been able to test the encoder performances for now because I don't have any video file which fits those needs
the software installed on the PC side seems to be a simple frontend which communicate with the PS3 side (which is a custom Yellow Dog Linux installed in 5 seconds with no HDD usage)
my idea is : how about understanding the dialog part (i assume it's a simple TCP/IP connexion since my PS3 is switched through my network like any other device) between PC and PS3 to implement this system on another encoder (i'm thinking of a kind of tsMuxer that would extract (and convert if needed) audio and video streams to feed the PS3 encoder and use its power to transcode those streams ? Some kind of CUDA except using PS3 instead of nvidia hardware
i'm pretty sure CELL cpu could be very powerfull in this particular task (much more than every intel average cpu at least)
i've been transcoding bluray these days and it take almost 16 hours to complete on my E6750 2.66GHz 64bit system, i'm wondering how fast would it be with such a system
EDIT : to install the PS3 side software, you need to copy otheros.bld to a USB drive with 5MB of free space, but i can't manage to edit this file in order to know what's in it (i'm familiar with linux system so it could be a good start to know what software is installed)
I've been testing this for few days (a 14 days trial is available) : http://codecsys.fixstars.com/en/personal/
but it won't accept anything but 1080p/1080i AVI/MPEG-2 video input and WAV input, i've not been able to test the encoder performances for now because I don't have any video file which fits those needs
the software installed on the PC side seems to be a simple frontend which communicate with the PS3 side (which is a custom Yellow Dog Linux installed in 5 seconds with no HDD usage)
my idea is : how about understanding the dialog part (i assume it's a simple TCP/IP connexion since my PS3 is switched through my network like any other device) between PC and PS3 to implement this system on another encoder (i'm thinking of a kind of tsMuxer that would extract (and convert if needed) audio and video streams to feed the PS3 encoder and use its power to transcode those streams ? Some kind of CUDA except using PS3 instead of nvidia hardware
i'm pretty sure CELL cpu could be very powerfull in this particular task (much more than every intel average cpu at least)
i've been transcoding bluray these days and it take almost 16 hours to complete on my E6750 2.66GHz 64bit system, i'm wondering how fast would it be with such a system
EDIT : to install the PS3 side software, you need to copy otheros.bld to a USB drive with 5MB of free space, but i can't manage to edit this file in order to know what's in it (i'm familiar with linux system so it could be a good start to know what software is installed)