Giga congratulations to the PS2Reality team for this outstanding work of patience. The player works very nicely, picture looks good and audio is fine.
The PS2 hardware is quite complicated to develop for, it takes many times to understand how to properly use all the coprocessors, DMA and GPU. That's why this media player is such an achievement.
IF you are serious about high quality ripping and speed you should really go with a decent SCSI cdrom and controller. And if you are going to spend money on SCSI, spend it on an Adaptec controller (2910,2930,2940) _and_ a Plextor CDROM. I got myself a 2930+Plextor 20x and I can rip CDs at 12x if the CD surface is not too scratched (which won't happend if you rip your own CDs, does it?:). As an added bonus, you can easily hook a SCSI CDR burner later. For the software, CDParanoia is great but I like CDCopy a lot. It's cheap and provide on the fly MP3 encoding using a variety of encoders (yes it's under Windows:( http://www.cdcopy.sk
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Giga congratulations to the PS2Reality team for this outstanding work of patience. The player works very nicely, picture looks good and audio is fine.
The PS2 hardware is quite complicated to develop for, it takes many times to understand how to properly use all the coprocessors, DMA and GPU. That's why this media player is such an achievement.
So once again, ignore the mockery, keep it going!
IF you are serious about high quality ripping and :). As an added bonus, :(
speed you should really go with a decent SCSI
cdrom and controller. And if you are going to
spend money on SCSI, spend it on an Adaptec
controller (2910,2930,2940) _and_ a Plextor
CDROM. I got myself a 2930+Plextor 20x and I
can rip CDs at 12x if the CD surface is not
too scratched (which won't happend if you rip
your own CDs, does it?
you can easily hook a SCSI CDR burner later.
For the software, CDParanoia is great but
I like CDCopy a lot. It's cheap and provide
on the fly MP3 encoding using a variety of
encoders (yes it's under Windows
http://www.cdcopy.sk