Anyone have a PS3 and loaded YDL 5 on it yet?

[BobDaMenkey]

I've got a hard drive on the way to replace the tiny 20gb one that came with my PS3 and was just hoping to get an overview of how well the YDL was running on the PS3.

I know that FC5 can run on it as well, but it's a bit sluggish because of the gui. YDL is based on FC5 from what I understand but with a different window manager and other tweaks to make it specifically designed for the PS3.

It's been pretty much impossible to track down feedback on the distro. Plenty of news about it being out, and it's somewhat easy to find the free to the public download links now(no support from terrasoft though, cus you didn't pay for it).


I've done some futsing around in Ubuntu and Xubuntu so I wanted to know if there was going to be a big learning curve and any glaring compatibility problems.


update
So YDL works pretty well, and I've managed to add some extra repositories from Fedora, specifically fedora-extras:

[fedora-extras]
name=Fedora Extras
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/5/ppc
gpgcheck=0

I also added linva-stable:

[livna-stable]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/5/ppc
gpgcheck=0

Those I saw posted in a thread on the slow moving www.yellowdog-board.com forums.

No one has specifically stated what you need to do to get totem playing restricted formats. I threw "yum install ffmpeg" at it and it installed several things, including lame and some other decoders it looked like, but that hasn't gotten Totem to play my files properly.

Fedora obviously doesn't have the same kinds of repositories as Ubuntu, so the fix that I used on my ubuntu machines doesn't work for the PS3 as it doesn't have the gstreamer0.10-x files. Would I be able to add Ubuntu ppc repositories to get it to work, or would that futz things up because it's debian based?

YDL is based off of Fedora, so from what I understand most things would work with it that do work with Fedora.

 

[Shamrock]

If you aren't successful, I can offer an alternative:

Gentoo on PS3
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Gentoo_released_on_PS3

I've read Gentoo isnt easy to learn though.

 

[BobDaMenkey]

I've heard that Gentoo is one of the harder distros to get down, and not very newbie friendly, but can be tuned very well if you know what you're doing. If I can't get Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 to work I'll probably try Fedora, then go for Gentoo. I wish Ubuntu had a distro with the right kernel out for me to grab, I don't know where to start when trying to doctor my own install with a different kernel.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
I've heard that Gentoo is one of the harder distros to get down, and not very newbie friendly, but can be tuned very well if you know what you're doing. If I can't get Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 to work I'll probably try Fedora, then go for Gentoo. I wish Ubuntu had a distro with the right kernel out for me to grab, I don't know where to start when trying to doctor my own install with a different kernel.

The nice thing about gentoo is the documentation and community support is absolutely top notch.

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Well, I got it installed last night. I have to say I was impressed with how snappy the OS seemed. I was expecting it to be a little bogged down because it only has 256mb of RAM. But it worked about on par with Xubuntu.

Now if I could just remember how to get codec packs installed for totem, or figure out how to install VLC player on it, everything will be happy.

 

[Nothinman]

Now if I could just remember how to get codec packs installed for totem, or figure out how to install VLC player on it, everything will be happy.

You won't be able to use w32codecs on the PS3 since they're binary-only and will only work on i386 hosts. On the other hand, I've been using mplayer on my AMD64 box without w32codecs for a few months now and have yet to find a video that it won't play.

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Hm, I'll try moving the file over to the PS3 before running it, but it wouldn't play anything saying it was an unrecognized stream or file or something like that.

 

[Nothinman]

What file?

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
What file?

Nothing has worked. Mpeg, mpg, mp4, wmv, avi, nothing worked. And rythm box doesn't like my mp3s either, whooo. I'll get this figured out at some point.

 

[Nothinman]

Ah, the media file. I don't know about FC, but this might help if you figure out if you're missing some important packages: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Ah, the media file. I don't know about FC, but this might help if you figure out if you're missing some important packages: <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats</a>

Yep, that is exactly what I need, now the question is how to get Yellow Dog Linux to install those things. I'd solved this problem before on my ubuntu machine, and it works quite wonderfully once you do that.

I know the command is yum, and I know some other people have managed to get videos to play on their ps3's under YDL, unfortunately none of them posted the command to do it yet.

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Right, well, I've managed to add some extra repositories. I added a fedora-extras repository which allowed me to install ffmpeg with yum, however I still can't get any restricted format to play for me. I'm somewhat puzzled by this to be perfectly honest. Rythm box also still refuses to do anything useful for me.

So I've come a little ways towards my goal, however I've gotten stuck again. I'll keep looking around over the next few days but this is a stopping point I think. Thanks for your help so far Nothinman.

 

[Syphilis]

I've always wondered if I should install YDL, Gentoo, or Ubuntu. Is there any significant difference that I should go out of my way to install an unsupported one?