Posting from Playstation 3 on Yellow Dog Linux 5.0

Posted on December 27, 2006 | 8 comments

To bad there is not a Flash Player 9 for Linux PowerPC distros or I would be coding Flex right now. So I am writing this post on my Playstation 3 using Yellow Dog linux 5.0 (the free version was just released today) as the “Other OS” on the box. The installation process was not that terrible hard. I was not able to install the Flash Player 7 or 9, and am not sure there is any Linux PowerPC Flash Players out there, any one know?

I am running off the wired network port, it would be cool if I could find the driver for the wireless card in the Playstation 3 itself. Other quirks is the whole HDMI to DVI only capable of connecting to HDCP ready devices. I am currently doing a 720p out through component into a VGA box converter into my monitor. Its not bad but nothing like true 1080p would be. Been sick for the last couple of days, what a time to get the flu bug, so I haven’t had all the time I wanted to get messing around with the Playstation 3. Maybe you’ll hear more on it later from me for now I am off to play some games.

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  • http://www.zeuslabs.us/ Josh

    You might be able to try the open source Gnash player.

  • http://www.renaun.com Renaun Erickson

    I did look at the Gnash player. It is quite limited, no FLV support and no full AMF support. Doesn’t help with the Flex stuff either as its Flash Player 7 specs as of yet.

    On the flip side I tried just using mxmlc with a Java PPC64 JRE, but had no success. It was fun trying anyways.

  • http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9 JohnP

    Does the BETA from this page not work for the version of Linux you are using?
    “This release includes bug fixes and support for additional operating systems—specifically Linux.”

    http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/

  • http://www.renaun.com Renaun Erickson

    This is the one that I tried. It does not work as its compiled for i386 architecture. There is a PowerPC Mac OS version of the Flash Player, but it does not work with Linux PowerPC. At least I am not aware of how to make it work.

  • http://terrasoftsolutions.com Troy Vitullo

    In the interest of full disclosure let me say first I work for Terra Soft.

    There’s a link off the Terra Soft web site that details our efforts to get
    Adobe to port Flash to the PowerPC. Here’s the link:

    http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-announce/2006-October/000129.html

    Best,

    Troy Vitullo

  • http://www.renaun.com Renaun Erickson

    Thanks for the info.

  • http://www.pre-orderps3.co.uk Steve

    There was an organised campaign to request a Linux PowerPC Flash Player from Adobe. Been trying to search for any success but have not found a response or install from the company.
    Did Adobe ignore these requests? Shame

  • thomas

    You can play FLV movies with ffplay (and any other movie format)
    even broken videos

    ffplay is part of ffmpeg

    if you dont have it, try :
    “yum install ffmpeg”