Vegas on PS3

[greeches]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,verdana][FONT=arial,helvetica,verdana][SIZE=+0] It would be interesting to see Sony release a version of Vegas that runs on their PS3 OS.

You could attach external drives of footage and hookup a keyboard and mouse.

256MB of RAM isn't much to work with, but perhaps they could make it work in some capacity...[/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT]

 

[El Director]

I'm sure someone could develop one, as long as it's not distributed. I'm looking to have some of my programmer/hacker friends do a version for Linux for me. We won't be giving it to anyone else, but they want the experience and to see if it can be done.

 

[David Jimerson]

You would need to run Windows on the PS3; Vegas needs a number of things IN Windows. It can't run on another OS.

Don't know why you'd want to do this; even a netbook at the same price would better.

 

[bbinnard]

It will never happen. The PS3 architecture is totally different from PC's. And therefore so is the machine code and all programming languages (of which I suspect there is only one.)

The Software Development Kit for the PS3 is very expensive and has a huge learning curve, partially because the PS3 has 9 separate CPUs (one general purpose CPU controller and 8 so-called cell processors.) The cells each have 128 128-byte registers which dwarfs any Intel CPu on the market. And there are 8 of them running in parallel. (PS3's only use 7 so it can switch to a spare if one goes berserk.)

It is a shame though, because a PS3 can compute rings around any PC on the planet. My guess is Vegas on a PS3 would render HD video faster than real time. What a concept.

 

[USLatin]

But Jim, think of the possibilities! Especially if we could run on other platforms.

:love4:

 

[El Director]

Now that's cross platform!