[mythtv-users] NAS with flash drive?

Jerry Rubinow jerrymr at gmail.com
Sat Sep 19 03:41:14 UTC 2009


On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday 16 September 2009 01:30:47 Per Jørgensen wrote:
>
> >
> > As far as I know - Its possible to run MythTV on the NSLU2 - allthough
> > I'm using it for backup device - and seconedary DNS!
> > But a guide for the NSLU2 -http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Myth_On_NSLU2
>
>
> I would describe this as a triumph of engineering over common sense. The
> slug
> has no video hardware, you have tro display on a different machine.
>
> The slug does not even have a floating point unit, even decoding MP3s
> strains
> this little device (I had to locate an integer-based decoder). Running
> MySQL
> is a chore for a slug.
>
> I suppose it could be done, but why?
>
> The slug and other similar devices are very handy and can do a lot, but
> running Myth would not be its strong point, IMHO.
>
> The SheevaPlug has a little more capability, but is still not capable of
> intensive A/V applications. I'm not sure if the SheevaPlug has an FPU, but
> it's still a limited device with no video hardware.
>
> I ran a mail server for a long time on a slug, but it fell down trying to
> cope
> with modern anti-spam and anti-virus applications. For example, doing OCR
> to
> detect image spam was way beyond its cpabilities. It worked, but at a
> crawl.
>
> Great little units, but not really Myth hardware.
>
>
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.

All the things he has running on the SheevaPlug:

http://computingplugs.com/index.php/SheevaPlug_Real_time_Statistics

Details on how he set it up:

http://computingplugs.com/index.php/Sheeva_Plug_as_a_MythTV_master_backend

11W max power.  Nice.

-Jerry

-Jerry
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