On 07/21/2010 10:00 AM, Fernando Romo wrote:
But finally howler show to us something good: With the Cell chips used in the Leadteck (are the same on a PS3), we can make a transcoding equipment with a PS3 for $299 USD... :)
Using the Ethernet of the PS3 we can send the RTP to the transcoding software and the device has enough power to convert 400+ concurrent calls.... only think about it.
Best Regards... Fernando Romo
Actually, the Howler card was a Leadtek PxVC1100 . It uses a Toshiba Spursengine chip. That has 4 Cell SPUs running at 1.5GHz. The PS3's chip has 7 Cell SPUs running at 3GHz. So, a PS3 is potentially a much faster transcoding platform..... or it was until they killed Linux installs. Howler didn't show us anything. What they did was a perfectly obvious route for transcoding. They were just the first people to do the engineering. Now the Cell is dying it doesn't look such a marvellous choice, but it certainly looked promising when they started work. Steve