[x264-devel] x264 - acceleration on IBM Cell platform

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hello,

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Sean McGovern <gseanmcg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Over the past few months I had started a skeleton for accelerating some
> functions on the Cell processor using my PlayStation 3 with Fedora Core 7.
> However, recently my PS3 bricked and I have sent it in for
> repair/replacement. Luckily the work I did was stored on my NFS server but I
> am not sure that I will install Linux on the machine that I get back.
>
> I will send a diff of what I have done when I have a chance. If someone
> would like to take over the work please feel free.


Cool. Please send it when you get a chance. You never know, your NFS may
also run into some problems before you get your PS3 back (Murphy's law).
I have access to a PS3, so if your patches are clean and work well, they may
get merged into x264's source tree.

How much speed-up did you gain from using SPEs on the Cell?



In the mean time I was wondering if this project has a bug tracker. I
> wouldn't mind doing some bug-squashing on *ix or Win32 (I have Virtual
> Server 2005 at home -- will probably create these as VMs soon).
>

Well, luckily, there aren't that many bugs that don't get a close to
immediate fix, that's why there's no bug tracker.

If we did need one, I guess VLC team could let us use theirs.

Guillaume
-- 
One should not give up hope on imbeciles. With a little training, you can
make them into soldiers.
-- Pierre Desproges
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