[mythtv-users] MythTV + uPnP + PS3 = no joy

[sonofzev at iinet.net.au]

On Fri May  8 14:43 , Raymond Wagner  sent:

>
>> (I'm probably gonna get flamed here but....)
>> What about loading a linux distro onto the PS3 and installing Myth on to the
>> linux distro.. that way you can still use the Ps3 hardware? 
>(And the rant begins...)
>While the PS3 has a massive amount of floating point performance through 
>the SPEs, the libraries MythTV uses will all run on the single PPC 
>core.  While it runs at 3.2GHz, it is a stripped down, in-order Power 
>chip.  I don't even know if it has enough power to do HD MPEG2.
>
>There does exist a project (spumedia) that intends to offload video 
>decoding to the SPEs, however their is a distinct lack of information 
>about it.  As far as I can tell, they have support for video scalers, 
>colorspace conversion, and iDCT offload to be done on the SPEs.  That 
>puts it between Xv and XvMC in terms of capability.
>)

That makes sense. 
Greg, I thought I'd get flamed as I was sure this would have been discussed before. 
Interesting though, I now know I am definitely not going to get a PS3 and just
hope and pray that the whole copy protection thing goes away so one day I might
be able to play a Blu Ray disc through Myth... although the trends don't look
great..