Linux for PlayStation 2 Community: Maybe an impasse? (update)

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Posted By: ppietro
Date: 2004-Nov-30 14:56
Summary:Maybe an impasse? (update)

Hi everyone,

Okay - I think we've hit two obstacles with the port. Obstacle one can be overcome, but obstacle two might be tougher.

Obstacle one is lack of XV support. That would be X Overlay Plane - as far as I know PlayStation 2 Linux doesn't support this extension. According to Real, I should be able to build this without X Overlay Support. I'll try this and let you know.

The second obstacle is lack of OSS support. Helix seems to exclusively use OSS for sound output. Earlier versions of RealPlayer supported OSS and ESD. I first suspected this when I got the same errors trying to build Helix on my RedHat 8.0 system as I get on my PlayStation 2 Linux system. Helix would work fine on my Fedora Core 2 system. The difference, as I found out, was OSS.

I'm not sure what it would entail to set OSS working on a PlayStation 2. I've been told there's an experimental project to get ESD working with Helix - that may be more productive for us.

Cheers,
Paul

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