[Gllug] Is linux a good bet for HTPC

[Iain Conochie]

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>> 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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