<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wednesday 16 September 2009 01:30:47 Per Jørgensen wrote:<br>
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> As far as I know - Its possible to run MythTV on the NSLU2 - allthough<br>
> I'm using it for backup device - and seconedary DNS!<br>
> But a guide for the NSLU2 -<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Myth_On_NSLU2" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Myth_On_NSLU2</a><br>
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</div>I would describe this as a triumph of engineering over common sense. The slug<br>
has no video hardware, you have tro display on a different machine.<br>
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The slug does not even have a floating point unit, even decoding MP3s strains<br>
this little device (I had to locate an integer-based decoder). Running MySQL<br>
is a chore for a slug.<br>
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I suppose it could be done, but why?<br>
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The slug and other similar devices are very handy and can do a lot, but<br>
running Myth would not be its strong point, IMHO.<br>
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The SheevaPlug has a little more capability, but is still not capable of<br>
intensive A/V applications. I'm not sure if the SheevaPlug has an FPU, but<br>
it's still a limited device with no video hardware.<br>
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I ran a mail server for a long time on a slug, but it fell down trying to cope<br>
with modern anti-spam and anti-virus applications. For example, doing OCR to<br>
detect image spam was way beyond its cpabilities. It worked, but at a crawl.<br>
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Great little units, but not really Myth hardware.<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This guy is running a master backend (MySql + MythWeb + alarm) on a SheevaPlug. He uses a slave backend (which the Sheeva wakes up) for recording.</div>
<div><br></div><div>All the things he has running on the SheevaPlug:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://computingplugs.com/index.php/SheevaPlug_Real_time_Statistics">http://computingplugs.com/index.php/SheevaPlug_Real_time_Statistics</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Details on how he set it up:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://computingplugs.com/index.php/Sheeva_Plug_as_a_MythTV_master_backend">http://computingplugs.com/index.php/Sheeva_Plug_as_a_MythTV_master_backend</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>11W max power. Nice.</div><div><br></div><div>-Jerry</div><div><br></div><div>-Jerry</div></div>