PSP Media Player???

**yaustar** · August 21st, 2006, 05:01

Except XBMC runs on something that has a PC architecture (where the codecs can run natively) and over twice the CPU horsepower.

**under_0ath777** · August 21st, 2006, 05:20

can't be more than 3 mbs and it crashes over time, sucks..

maybe we can make a prx to make it videos launch on browser

**ACID** · August 21st, 2006, 05:23

I agree something like xbox media center.

**Wally** · August 21st, 2006, 05:25

yaustar: I dont mean a port, a whole new thingy..

**yaustar** · August 21st, 2006, 18:09

It doesn't matter, the reasons are for why something like XBMC can be made for an Xbox but not for a PSP. It falls down to porting the codecs and NOT the player. All the codecs exist in x86 form which is perfect for the Xbox but you have to port all the codecs to get them to work on the PSP. At the moment all the decoding is done on the main CPU and AFAIK the PSP doesn't have access to a hardware decoder or the developers haven't figured out how to use it.

**Wally** · August 22nd, 2006, 01:19

Just a minute,

Apple PowerPC has access to Divx format, so why couldnt the codecs be used from that then?

There is always alternatives like:
Mplayer
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

VLC
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

The codecs shouldn't be that much of a drama, as powerPC and PocketPC (both mips processors) use them..
So to me there shouldnt be any problem

**yaustar** · August 22nd, 2006, 01:52

Both VLC and MPlayer use codec binaries (x86 again) to run media.

* now goes off and runs to find information on the PocketPC media players *

Edit: I assume that the media players for the PocketPCs are usually targeted to one media type (eg DivX) and the codecs/players are closed source. Beyond I just be speculating.

I also admit I could be completely wrong on this, a lot of this I am basing on the reasons why the GP2X's MPlayer is having trouble supporting more containers such as mkv and ogm to an extent. And also why the port of FFPlay/ffdshow is so slow.

Edit2: ooops.. didn't realise VLC had a Mac OSX port... looks like I could be wrong about this and it is just a matter of CPU speed :/