Hi all,
After 12h or so playing with my PS3 and figuring how VLC/Mplayer/changing resolution works and try the different version and such i thought i give a short conclusion of my day but first i like to say thanks to this site and the people who added so much information here. It has been a great help as i'm a noob at linux.
So to the conclusion. I am using version 1.6 and installed ydl according to the guide on this forum. (one thing i did differently was to only use the kboot file (otheros.bld), never used any otheros.self as this is included in the latest 1.6 firmware update!)
The installation was very simple and went smoothly.
Once that was done i started to install yumx . This was a bit tricky but i think the lates "UPDATED yum.conf & repos files " under download section should help you get starting together with the forum thread "CONFIGURE YUM & YUMEX !"
One detail is to run "yum list". For me it failed to find yumex before i had executed this.
Also i had to run these commands (3 lines below)again or the GPG would fail when i was installing yumex , no idea why.
rpm --import http://redhat.download.fedoraproject...-Fedora-Extras
rpm --import http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rp...-KEY-freshrpms
rpm --import http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rp...-KEY-yellowdog
Once i had yumex up and running which was version 1.0.2 (not 1.0.3 as the guide says) i could install VLC and MPlayer.
Some word on VLC and Mplayer.
VLC: this work pretty decent as long as you dont run full screen! Changing to full screen made the desktop hang or something. I could never do anything but logout and login again. also VLC crashed time to time.
MPlayer: I think Mplayer is a bit better/faster but on the other hand i could never play full screen. I did run :
"mplayer -fs -zoom -sws 0 FILENAME"
but it only played the move in slowmotion (fullscreen) which suCKed badly.
The version installed with yumex was a older version so i tried the latest build followin this guide:
http://www.ps3forums.com/archive/index.php/t-51038.html
Read the post from Hexadecimal.
You guys running Vista and want to access a folder need to use IP instead of computername when mounting folders which is the only was i could access my files on my PC.
(mount -t cifs -o user=
password= /// /mnt/movies)
You can just create a folder you like in /mnt/xxx and mount into that.
Now if you like to change resolution, press CTRL+ALT+F1 which takes you to another shell prompt or what you call this.
Here you can play around with "ps3videomode -v #" which change the resolution. # stands for different resolution settings.
Read more here:
http://ps3mods.blogspot.com/2006/11/...s3s-1080i.html
Basically in order to change the default resolution you need to edit:
/etc/kboot.conf
And change the line
default=ydl -> default=myconfig
And also add:
myconfig='/dev/sda1:/vmlinux-2.6.16-20061110.ydl.1ps3
initrd=/dev/sda1:/initrd-2.6.16-20061110.ydl.1ps3.img
root=/dev/sda2 init=/sbin/init video=ps3fb:mode:5 rhgb'
Here the number 5 is 1080p which i use. This was the closest i got to with ps3videmode that looked best on my tv (W2000 sony). I still have black edges but much better then the 720p .
I think i will stick to my xbox XBMC for now since it playes my movies much much better. Neither VLC or MPlayer are capable to play full screen for me. If anyone has done this successfully i am very interested hearing how they have done this. I am also thinking to maybe install another dist to try and see if VLC/MPlayer perform better with those. Ubuntu ?
One question to the gurus: how do i make a shortcut to the /mnt/movies to my desktop?
Cheers
/R