[Gllug] Is linux a good bet for HTPC

[Andrew Davies]

On 05/05/2011 21:38, damion.yates at gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, 4 May 2011, Iain Conochie wrote:
>
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>> <snip>
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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?
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>>> 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.
>>      
>
> I have PlayTV which is a usb freeview decoder you plug in to the PS3 and
> some pretty slick PVR software.
> You can get PlayTV for £35 from Amazon with free postage.
>    

A word of warning, the original PS 3 has some horrendous power 
consumption numbers for a consumer device :-

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10318727-1.html

Recording an average of 1 hour of television per day for an entire year 
will cost about £7, plus about the same to watch so it's worth 
considering if you're looking at going this route.
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