[Gllug] Is linux a good bet for HTPC

[Andrew Farnsworth]

http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Turn-Linux-Into-a-PS3-or-Xbox-360-Media-Server-102831.shtml

<http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Turn-Linux-Into-a-PS3-or-Xbox-360-Media-Server-102831.shtml>
Andy

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Iain Conochie <iain at shihad.org> wrote:

> <snip>
>
>  Does MythTV present itself as a "Media Server" in PS3 speak? How do you
>>>
>>> configure the playstation to "see" the linux machine?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Iain
>>>
>>
>>
>> If you have access to a PS 3 and just want to try it out with recorded
>> Freeview SD television, then you can get MythTV running on reasonably
>> low-end hardware. The only thing you're actually doing when recording
>> Freeview is dumping the television stream to the hard disk so very little
>> CPU time is actually used. As I recall, I had a PIII 1GHz and an internal
>> PCI Freeview card recording television and then serving it to a PS 3.
>>
>>  Nah - I have a NAS server with many DivX movies on it and it would be
> cool to be able to play them via the PS3 on our TV. I noticed that the PS3
> has the option to find Media Servers but I figured this was some M$ thing.
>
> Ta
>
> Iain
>
>
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