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     2 SDL on Sony Playstation3

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     5 Installation:

     6   First, you have to install the Cell SDK

     7   - Download the Cell SDK installer RPM and ISO images to

     8     a temporary directory such as /tmp/cellsdk.

     9   - Mount the image: mount -o loop CellSDK-Devel-Fedora_3.1.0.0.0.iso /tmp/cellsdk

    10   - Install the SDK installer: rpm -ivh cell-install-3.1.0-0.0.noarch.rpm

    11   - Install the SDK: cd /opt/cell && ./cellsdk --iso /tmp/cellsdkiso install

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    13   You'll than need to install the SPU-libs

    14   - Run make ps3-libs && make ps3libs-install

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    16   Finally, install SDL

    17   - Go to SDL-1.2/ and build SDL like any other GNU style package.

    18   e.g.

    19     - Build the configure-script with ./autogen.sh

    20     - Configure SDL for your needs: ./configure --enable-video-ps3 ...

    21     - Build and install it: make && make install

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    24 Todo:

    25   - Mouse & Keyboard support

    26   - On SPU-side the current scaler and converter restrictions are:

    27     - resolution has to be a multiple of 8 (will work on that)

    28     - scaler/converter only supports the YV12 and IYUV format

    29     - the scaler works only bilinear (lanzos would be nice)

    30   - Optimize the SPU-program handling on the PPE side

    31   - Integrate spumedia in SDL

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    33 Have fun!

    34   Dirk Herrendoerfer <d.herrendoerfer [at] de [dot ibm [dot] com>

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