possible routing bd-drive signals through a pc ?

[semitope]

By "the data is encrypted" do you mean the files on the disc or every communication from the drive?

[mike1001]

Originally Posted by marvin24 I just said, that it is possible to acces a blue-ray via an iscsi connected ps3 bd drive. that's at leased what I did one year ago. havn't checked a bd-movie, but I heard, that this is also working. decryption is of course made by the player software in the pc.

hi,
nice idea for ripping movies ;

otheros ps3-linux as iscsi-master -> linux-pc as iscsi-client -> slysoft under vmware will do the rest ; its faster than smb or nfs and you do not need to copy the movie. (i think so)

you can do the same on the ps3-linux-console like iscsi-i/o ... the hypervisor control the bd-drive !

greets

[CJPC]

Originally Posted by PS3 News Welcome back RPS.. I added you to the PS3 Dev class and nuked your old account. I know a few of the others on IRC would like to say HI to you soon too.. CJPC and iCEQB among them.

Yep, Nice to see you back RPS! Hope you can drop on IRC sometime, just message me and we can chat!

[RPS]

Originally Posted by CJPC Yep, Nice to see you back RPS! Hope you can drop on IRC sometime, just message me and we can chat!

Already have sent you one from here, need to get the details from you on the chan, etc.

It's been a while, doesn't seem to me that anything much has happened though...

Catch you soon.

RPS.

[travis134]

Off topic, but does PS3 News have an IRC chan?

[PS3 News]

We used to use EFnet #ps3news but then nobody ever chatted there and soon it dwindled down to like 4-5 idlers and the Staff (@ps) so we closed it.

These days the PS3 Devs here have a private channel they mingle in, but no public channel at the moment as the Staff (and others) use the chatbox to communicate with one another.

If there was enough demand we could re-open #ps3news, but speaking only for myself I can barely keep the site/forums up-to-date in my freetime... so definitely no time to start IRCing in a channel full of people needing help or bugging @ps for non-existant PS3 hack updates.

Which brings up another concern of mine: Is there really much to chat about in a PS3 IRC channel?

I mean, the Devs like to keep their work private so until something gets posted those areas are off-limits... and all the PS3 iSO releases don't run on retail consoles so aside from occasional "live help" (which our chatbox accomplishes somewhat) I am not convinced an IRC channel would be used much.

Finally, if you (or others) would like to get one going again then start a thread either HERE or HERE and I will Sticky and link to it so that all who wish to get involved can group up and organize it.

Then we will add a plug-in to the site to allow for the channel and so on... but just be aware I don't think myself or CJPC will ever be there due to a lack of time/interest. I would rather help someone on the site where my time invested can be converted to content re-read by hundreds of people in months to come.

[travis134]

I understand completely

Right now I want to earn the title of PS3 Dev (Not for the vanity; oh yes, I know the epicness this title would bestow upon me); Unfortunately homebrew can not be readily developed, tested, or executed on a PS3 system. I'm unfamiliar with the specific hardware within the PS3 (Besides the obvious facts that it has a power pc architecture cell processor, and etc), however I do have a general knowledge of logic design (I have created an elementary processor using the Neumann architecture in logic works) and I am pretty learned in most object oriented programming languages (I currently know Java, ActionScript 3, and PHP).

How could I be of use to the PS3 development scene?

[PS3 News]

Originally Posted by travis134 Right now I want to earn the title of PS3 Dev (Not for the vanity; oh yes, I know the epicness this title would bestow upon me); How could I be of use to the PS3 development scene?

OK to answer each of those separately... we upgrade PS3 News user accounts here to "PS3 Dev" status (see HERE for the current ones) for a variety of reasons. Some of those listed have directly helped out the group of PS3 Devs on IRC, while others have just released/shared an app or tool here demonstrating their skills (they can code in XYZ language, etc).

As for perks of the title: Those in the "PS3 Dev" class can access the IRC channel, see less ads and don't have to make posts to download files.

That being said, how to put your background to use for the PS3 development scene is a good question... as you mentioned without a Debug PS3 homebrew options are limited. One thing I can tell you about some of the older PS3 Devs here is they spent a LOT of time reading through the $DK documentation (start here, if you haven't already: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4293607/PS3_SDK_KIT_1.6) to familiarize themselves with the hardware.

Many of them specialize in one area of expertise but share common knowledge. It's GREAT that you are ready and willing to lend a hand when the time calls, but until you see something specific you'd like to jump in on reading is probably the way to go. A few months ago the Devs were seeking someone with a lot of experience in shaders, for example, so if you possessed that skill then your time to shine would have been then and so on.

[semitope]

i have experience in shaders, whether pencils or crayons... even pens i am good at shading with

You have devs that only give ideas? A set of people that have the necessary information and only think about possible, if out there, ways of breaking the system? or is that just plain annoying?