<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Mar 19, 2007, at 3:07 AM, Gene Stapp wrote:<br><br>> So are you planning to compile the mythfrontend to run on the PS3<br>> or is there a problem with doing that currently? If myth would work<br>> well, I'd seriously consider using this as a frontend at that point
<br>> (power usage isn't an issue my power costs are extremely cheap in<br>> my state). Plus, I could get some gaming out of it as well.<br>><br><br>I'm thinking that the PPC frontend-only version might compile, and
<br>might even actually work, but of course the problem is getting the<br>time to work on it.<br><br>It's an interesting proof-of-concept project, but it certainly isn't<br>going to be able to do anything that can't be done already with more
<br>conventional hardware.<br><br>You also would really want a display with HDMI or DVI input, and also<br>HDCP if you wanted to play Blu-Ray disks at full resolution.<br><br>The digital audio output seems to work under Linux, it's optical
<br>only, no coax, though I suppose you could jeep the digital audio out<br>of the HDMI connector if you wanted a copper path.<br><br>I would certainly not buy a PS3 just for a Myth frontend, but if you<br>are looking for the cheapest BR player available, and also get a
<br>machine that can run Linux and perhaps Myth, it's certainly a<br>bargain. It's the best bargain going even as a standalone BR player,<br>but that situation might not last long, and I expect BR/HD-DVD<br>players will become more common and cheaper soon. Anybody buying any
<br>sort of HD disk player today is paying the "early adopter" tax, and I<br>haven't seen any HD movies available that were actually worth<br>watching yet.<br><br>As I said, already I can NFS mount my Myth recordings and play them
<br>with mplayer using the CLI, that's enough to make me happy, but it<br>might not have a high WAF for non-bachelors.<br><br>Also, Terrasoft describes the Bluetooth interface as "unsupported"<br>but both my Gentoo machine and my Mac can connect to the interface
<br>easily, that might be a route for getting a remote control working.<br>The "game controller" is BT, maybe you could cobble that up to be a<br>remote, as I can't see what else it would be good for :-)<br>
<br>Also - I've read that Sony may be discontinuing the cheaper 20GB PS3<br>in favor of the more expensive 60GB unit which also gives you WiFi<br>and a card reader. Those additional features can be bought elsewhere<br>
at far less than Sony prices, so if you're thinking about buying the<br>20GB box I'd consider that.<br><br>I'd also consider purchasing directly from Terrasoft. I'd much rather<br>support an outfit that's doing Linux development than the local Big-
<br>Box Store chain - but that's strictly a personal opinion.</blockquote><div><br>FYI, I installed Ubuntu PPC on my PS3 and was able to install Mythfrontend through the package system no problem. Mythfrontend loaded and I could browse through the menus no problem. Trying to playback a recording brought the system to its knees though. I think the problem was the limited memory.
<br><br>Ubuntu doesn't have the most lite weight memory footprint. I don't remember the exact figure but just sitting at the Ubuntu desktop, used well over half the system's memory. I definitely saw the system slowdown with the more applications I loaded. At one point the system didn't like switching between the multiple xterm, gedit and firefox (which is VERY memory hungry) windows I was using.
<br><br>I plan on reinstalling with a more lite weight distro but haven't had the time.<br></div><br></div><br>-- <br>_____________<br>Ryan Patterson