On Mar 20, 2006, at 11.30, Joel Ostheller wrote: food for thought... How cool would it be to have your PSP be a mythfrontend =D its not physically possible, but its nice to dream about.
Actually, I have thought about that, and it doesn't seem THAT far-fetched. The PSP has a 333 MHz CPU. I believe it's a dual-core CPU, and uses the second core for media decoding. The on-board software can decode MPEG-4 and H.264. Getting it to decode MPEG-2 and RTJPEG shouldn't be too much stress on the CPU. Of course, the real ! (at) #$& would be getting enough bandwidth over the 802.11b connection.
For now, what I'd love to see is like a mini-front-end. I can scroll through the recorded programs, manage recordings, and directly control the front-end, kinda like how the HTTP interface works for XBMC.
On 3/20/06, Kichigai Mentat <kichigai (at) comcast.net> wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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On Mar 20, 2006, at 04.04, Chad wrote:
> I'm personally holding out of PS3 instead. Whether it will be able to
> be a full fledged mythfrontend or not is not my issue, rather it's who
> gets my money. Nonetheless, it seems Sony was more willing to 'play'
> with linux in the past, I would think they might also do so in the
> future. The more people you entice to buy your system, the more money
> you make.
Well, that's only partly true. Nintendo did a lot of things to
discourage home-brew on their console (different disc file system,
reading methods, encryptions, lack of hard disk) and technically,
they were the only ones to make money off of their sixth generation
console. Sony and Microsoft are still losing money on the PS2 and the
XBox (consoles at least).
Also, that's not really true. Microsoft isn't trying to entice Linux
users, or MythTV users to buy the XBox, yet there are several of us
out there who have, and many more who are considering buying XBoxes
exclusively for the use of MythTV. That use is part of the reason
home-brew is discouraged. I buy an X360 or a PS3, and devote it to
MythTV. Microsoft or Sony loses money on the console, and make no
money off of the games. I am a loss to them.
Either way, this is getting off topic.
> Too bad Micro$oft can't see that; though I'm sure they
> won't be losing sleep over it with their pillows stuffed with $1,000
> dollar bills.
>
> ;)
>
> Chad
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