Caretaker721 wrote:If it matters, I'm using the "Enlightenment" GUI, which is the default for YDL after first boot.
ALSO - is it true what folks say about WINE being far more lightweight than QEMU as an emulator and thus doesn't have as much overhead that bogs down video streaming as much as QEMU does? I want lightweight and fast! Thanks!
WINE is a "recursive acronym" -- apparently they love those in Linux -- "Wine Is Not an Emulator" ... so yes, it would require much less CPU usage since it's not emulating an x86 CPU like QEMU does. I've never heard of the arch-independent version of Wine ... to run any x86 software on the PS3 you'd need to be using a processor emulator, so Windows running on QEMU would be your only option. Unfortunately, even if you're able to get Windows + Firefox 2 running on QEMU, I'd expect the performance of any network player to be dreadfully slow on QEMU + Windows on the PS3.
I've played around with QEMU on the PS3 quite a bit and have been able to get some Windows games like Diablo and Starcraft running on it, but the performance of Windows applications like web browsers is very slow. I've also tried Win2K, but didn't install any games on it -- and that's the minimum requirement for the Move media player.
The only solution for this that I can think of would require a Windows machine that's able to run the Move media player plus an application that streams video from the Windows machine to PS3 Linux. The only one I know of is called
StreamMyGame, and I haven't tried it myself.
Hopefully, while it isn't what you want to hear, this will save you a lot of time and frustration. It won't make any difference what Linux distro you're running on your PS3.
Regarding your QEMU install not showing up in the package manager ... it sounds like you installed it using a binary package (usually these end with .tar.gz) and that wouldn't show up. Only RPM packages you install will show up in the package manager. Also I don't know if you installed a PPC version of QEMU which is what you'd need, and I only see a binary distribution for linux-i386 on the QEMU site -- that won't work.
The best way to install QEMU would be to follow the "How to Install Software (YDL6)" guide here:
viewtopic.php?t=3017Then install it from Add/Remove Software or use
yum install qemu from a terminal window. It won't show up in your applications menu because it's a command-line based emulator, and then you'd still need to install Windows on a hard drive image created with qemu-img.
But for what you're trying to do, I don't think this will be a workable solution.