FreeBSD now supports the Playstation 3

Re:FreeBSD now supports the Playstation 3 by harisenbon on Thursday January 06, 2011 @11:57PM (#2078627)

Transcoding is a pain in the ass because it requires another computer with a decent CPU to decode in realtime (which means you can't run it off a NAS or some other server-based disk backup, unless you want to shell out the bucks for a really overpowered backup solution).

If I'm going to go through all that trouble and cost, it makes more sense to buy a low-cost ION GPU HTPC ($300) that can just run the video (even HD) without transcoding.

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Re:FreeBSD now supports the Playstation 3 by JonnieCache on Friday January 07, 2011 @06:59AM (#2079308)

Worst of all, when transcoding you are needlessly discarding data and therefore picture quality. It you don't have to, you shouldn't.

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Re:FreeBSD now supports the Playstation 3 by th0ma5 on Friday January 07, 2011 @02:26AM (#2078931)

got one of those ion pcs, i recommend it, and your sentiments about how this all fits together. i think a machine really can only do one thing really well (especially something high performance) at a time, and often MPC software tries to do too much at once.

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Re:FreeBSD now supports the Playstation 3 by ZoFreX on Friday January 07, 2011 @04:50AM (#2079128)

I had an ASRock NetTop 330, measured the wattage draw while playing a 1080p film, it was pulling about 15 watts from the wall. Pretty damn impressive.

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