[mythtv-users] PS3 and Mythtv

[greg]

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2009, at 5:58 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 01 September 2009 15:50:32 Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>
>>>> I have played digital files from an NFS mount on the PS3 running
>>>> YellowDog
>>>> Linux using mplayer, but that's not a fair comparison.
>>>
>>> Hah, yeah, that doesn't count. Its a (stupid) limitation of the PS3's
>>> Game OS.
>>
>> Probably to try and stop people from playing "shared" files, more or 
>> less like
>> a lot of Windows apps won't play network-mounted files.
>>
>> It doesn't have to make sense, just be mentioned by someone to an 
>> exec who
>> then mandated the behaviour without understanding it.
>>
>> No direct access to the video hardware is what really bugs me about 
>> Linux on
>> the PS3. I'd guess Sony "helped" develop Linux for the PS3 to try and 
>> stop
>> people (those lousy Linux pirates) from getting a more video-friendly 
>> Linux
>> on it :-)
>
> Yeah, the virtualized environment w/no access to the video hardware is 
> the main reason my interest in getting a PS3 was squashed early on. At 
> clearance prices for the old models, it'd almost be worth it, but meh, 
> I have a YDL PowerStation here in the office for when I really need to 
> run Linux on ppc64 (plus some bladecenters in the lab), so I'm more 
> inclined to get a less power-hungry no-Other-OS-possible PS3 Slim once 
> they're in stores...
>
Thanks Brian,Jarod
I did have it working last winter..It was a different hook up though. I 
had it hooked to my 22 inch monitor in my office, but used the av multi 
out connector for audio..I think i will give that a shot and see if that 
works...
 I would try transconding,but that has always been a no go for me...