[mythtv-users] Status of LinuxPPC mythttv?

[papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Bruce C. Dillahunty wrote:

> I run it... there is a patch (I have it at home) that you can load, but it
> isn't current... a few "tweaks" and I've gotten it to work well enough to
> watch shows, etc. Filters won't run, at least some of them, since they
> seem to rely on x86 assembly.
> 
> Let me know if you want the patch and I'll send it on.
> 
> You may be short on horsepower... I have a 733Mhz G4 and it runs about
> 50-60% watching TV. Obviously it doesn't offload much to the video card on
> mine :-)
> 
> Is there any interest in moving the PPC code into the main tree? I think
> it could be done with some #ifdefs... would that be acceptable?
> 
	I would imagine that the patch also prevents the filters that won't 
compile from trying, right?  I would certainly vote for putting the ppc code in 
the kernel, but I know there are other fish to fry.

	WRT the horsepower, I'm not sure.  It's only a 350 MHz machine, but it 
seems to play DIVX movies at about 40%, and fullscreen DVD MPEG2 at about 90%.  
I would think that DVD MPEG2 would take more than nuppelvideo from TV.  This is 
going to be a frontend only FWIW.

	Where can the patch be found, or is a job for google?

Thanks,
-Cory


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