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thecryptkeeper

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« on: October 08, 2007, 07:26:00 AM »

ok im looking into running Linux on my 360 what can i do with it when i get it booted because i am a member of the Folding @ home project and i was wondering what running linux on my 360 enable me to do?
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Icekiller2k6

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« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2007, 10:08:00 AM »

QUOTE(thecryptkeeper @ Oct 8 2007, 03:26 PM) *

ok im looking into running Linux on my 360 what can i do with it when i get it booted because i am a member of the Folding @ home project and i was wondering what running linux on my 360 enable me to do?


pretty much any tool if its compiled to run on PPC...

no sound yet thro..
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« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2008, 12:20:00 PM »

i was wondering the same thing. i've never used linux before, but i have my 360 modded. i'm just wondering what types of things people ahve been able to do with it. i read that mame works, how about all the other emus out there?
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clousr

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« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2008, 12:26:00 PM »

is there a way to run a minimal version of linux and an x86 emulator on one core, xp on the the other two cores like a normal 3.2 ghz dual core computer?
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Icekiller2k6

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« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2008, 07:42:00 PM »

QUOTE(clousr @ Jan 19 2008, 08:26 PM) View Post

is there a way to run a minimal version of linux and an x86 emulator on one core, xp on the the other two cores like a normal 3.2 ghz dual core computer?

look up tinyxp.
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Icekiller2k6

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« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2008, 12:33:00 PM »

QUOTE(jbaruch76 @ Jan 17 2008, 08:20 PM) View Post

i was wondering the same thing. i've never used linux before, but i have my 360 modded. i'm just wondering what types of things people ahve been able to do with it. i read that mame works, how about all the other emus out there?



mythtv works.
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Icekiller2k6

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« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2008, 08:01:00 AM »

Ok a list of software that i have tried,
i do have an USB sound stick, and you will need it to most of the programs.. Or wait untill tmbinc's has completed the onboard sound driver.

what works:
* mythtv +addons (you do need to disable deinterlace to be able to use mythvideo!)
* Scummvm
* Xmame
* Xmess
* Xbox360 controller usb+wireless
* firefox etc..
*...

We are looking for somebody who can PORT the XBMC for linux to PowerPC code, for example there is X86 ASM code in XBMC && there are some x86 only code in it(__stdcall for example)
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mrbelvedere

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« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2008, 09:32:00 AM »

QEMU also works (Virtualization software) althought extremely slow emulating an X86 processor.
I tried to virtualize windows XP and it took 3-5 hours to install. I gave up on it because it was way to slow to be usable.
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IId3fi13rII

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« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2020, 12:30:00 PM »

You might as well forget trying to use virtualization software since windows will still run very very slow that its just not worth it..

I think that our 2 main priorities are to port XBMC to linux for PPC so it can run on a 360 and to get sound working on the 360 through linux [creating the drivers which i understand is already being worked on]

@ICEKiller, does VLC Media player work because you could just use that to play all your video files or has it not been ported to a PPC system?
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IId3fi13rII

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« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2020, 01:03:00 PM »

Forget that i just asked that.

I found MPlayer which is:
MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies..

So really it is like on par with vlc and has a ppc port of it too.!!!
Could someone try it on their 360 and maybe even try playing some 720p mkv x264 vids???

that would be great..
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Icekiller2k6

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« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2008, 04:35:00 PM »

QUOTE(IId3fi13rII @ Feb 25 2008, 09:03 PM) View Post

Forget that i just asked that.

I found MPlayer which is:
MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies..

So really it is like on par with vlc and has a ppc port of it too.!!!
Could someone try it on their 360 and maybe even try playing some 720p mkv x264 vids???

that would be great..



yeah i can play 720p haven't tried x264 ..

hm it would run smoother if we found a kernel hacker who would (and can) hack the kernel so that the vid buffer can use cached memory instead of uncached (20mbits again't 2gbit orsomething..)
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