Being a fan of the outlandish films like Versus and Volcano High I just had to mention that Tak Sakaguchi is close to a release of his new film, “Be a Man! Samurai School” or “é!!男塾” which is “Sakigake!! Otoko Juku” which sounds like my sort of film, which appears to be the usual sort of microcosm of thuggery in a school setting (is there any other?). Most people would remember Tak from his breakout film Versus as the lead character of zombie-kicking goodness. You can read the English info here and the main web site is here. Hideo Sakaki also is in the film, however not sure how big his role will be.
I recently picked up a HDFury which finally lets me use my PS3 via the HDMI port to my Dell 2405 monitor in 1920×1200 resolution via VGA, no thanks to the HDMI mafia. As a result I’m a tad more productive than the component leads that left me in 720p with some blurry output, so I’ve had a chance to get Fedora installed and download the latest Linux kernel. The good news is that the new kernels by Geoff Levand support WPA now, so I’m able to use the PS3 wirelessly with Fedora rather than having it tethered via Ethernet which was being a bit annoying.
After getting the new kernel on things speed up noticeably (even Geoff’s precompiled kernel is faster than the stock Fedora PPC one) and using the Cell SDK 3 to recompile MPlayer gives some modest results, letting me run AVI/MKV fine at SD and software scale up to 720p and still keep up. I’ll have to dig into the libswscale to see about writing some SPE optimised scalers and YUV->RGB converters at some point in time. I guess the next step is getting the BlueTooth SixAxis and Logitech MediaBoard Pro up and running properly which means I can get closer to using the PS3 as a dual-boot gaming machine and GNU/Linux based media center over wireless.
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