PS2 DivX Network

[king_tuk]

Check this out...
http://www.broadq.com/product.shtml
This will play your movies from accross your network...
I called the company and they said the only problem people are having is finding the Sony Ethernet Adapter for the Playstation 2.

[unplugged]

This is a good news, but will be better days when this monster console "demostrates" its power and comfort playing itself MPEG4 :-|.

(it has two 128-bit vector calculation units working similar as P4's SSE2, doubled)

[king_tuk]

It is playing the file... it's just using the the hardrive on the network for storage... Or is it using the computer to serve the frames???

[Yusaku]

from their FAQ:
Q: What kind of digital media can I use with your software?

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A good guideline would be this: if source exists or is made available for creating or playing a particular type of media on Linux, we will likely be able to add support for that format in the near future. An example would be support for Ogg-Vorbis audio and video compression


hmmm... now this seems a bit suspicious... Another sigma designs like approach? I don't see any note about sources being available, I could not find any notice on which MP4 decoding engine is used and frankly I don't believe they wrote MP4 decoder themselves from scratch... when there's a source code available out there.

@unplugged: nope, it is virtually impossible to transfer uncompressed video realtime over networks; and definitely impossible over 802.11b

[unplugged]

Right, to be honest with calculations :D (720*576*2*25 is too much even for 100 Mbit/s theoretical bandwidth).
Anyway, still hope that job will be done also by DVD/CDs... :o

[unplugged]

ooops.. double post