[ydl-gen] Any luck with MythTV on PS3?

[Brian Wood]

On Jan 31, 2007, at 3:31 PM, Michael Torres wrote:

> So, as a credit to my newbieness with YDL and programs that run on  
> linux, I don't know the differences between frontend, backend. I  
> basically went to the MythTV website, and downloaded MythTV,  
> Themes, Plugins, and tried to install them. I had all sorts of  
> problems. So, any clarification would be helpful. Thanks.

You should definitely read up on MythTV, they have a WiKi at:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Basically MythTV consists of a "backend" and a "frontend", although  
they can both be run on the same machine. You can have multiple  
frontends all being served by the same backend, and can even have  
slave backends.

The backend controls the tuner/capture devices, runs the mysql  
database, manages recordings, flags commercials, runs transcode jobs  
and all the "behind the scenes" stuff.

The frontend basically runs the user interface and plays recordings.

I've read of some folks getting a frontend running on a PS3, similar  
to what some folks have done with an XBox. I've never heard of anyone  
getting a backend up on a PS3, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be  
done. I think you'd have to use USB capture devices as the PCI cards  
probably wouldn't work in the PS3 :-)

I have a PS3 on order and after I get it I might be able to be of  
more help, for now I'd check the Myth mailing list archives at  
gossamer and see what folks are doing.