2007-08-12, 10:43
you'd bog it down seriously. remember, a gpu usually runs hundreds if not thousands of threads at a time. the cell can do 7.
statements like 'who needs hardware support' and 'the cell processor would play any 1080p video flawlessly' stinks of sony's hype mongery. it's not a matter of throwing any code at the cell and it will work. you have to write very specific code for a very particular processor (only 256kb local storage, need to dma everything etc) to get the best out of the cell and NO OSS media player supports this atm, expect it to take some time before they do.
statements like 'who needs hardware support' and 'the cell processor would play any 1080p video flawlessly' stinks of sony's hype mongery. it's not a matter of throwing any code at the cell and it will work. you have to write very specific code for a very particular processor (only 256kb local storage, need to dma everything etc) to get the best out of the cell and NO OSS media player supports this atm, expect it to take some time before they do.