).It works to some extent but I was rather disappointed when it comes to playing the "big buck bunny" movie (sorry don't have the url, you certainly gonna find it via google), because the transcoding of the avi was way to slow on my system and therefore leads to jitter on picture and sound.
Okay what is "transcoding"? This means that the ps3 mediaserver reads in the movie stored on my harddisk and changes the format on the fly in a way that it can be displayed on my tv set. As you might have guessed this requires heavy computational power and enough memory and...Why bother "with on the fly" and don't just do it once and store the result on harddisk? Good question but transcoding is also applied to online ressources which I can access via ps3 mediaserver.
Okay back to transcoding. I know that there's a trend in GPUs recently which opens the power of grafic cards for "other" purposes. There are SDKs and stuff which allow to use the processors on the gpus to do any sort of computation. So I wonder whether it would be possible to use our scope/xite-hardware to do some sound-unrelated computation, for instance to do at least the sound "transcoding" like AC 5.1 640kbits/s -> Stereo 128 kbit/s?
What do you think?
Any volunteers? When can I expect the first beta version? 