Hi, all
Long time lurker of the Haiku project, Big fan of BEOS.
I Wanted to share a project I'm working on.
It's a "personal media database system" for POSIX OS's. It' sounds complicated but is very minimal setup.
While looking around at different minimalist Linux distros, I thought why not have Haiku as the front end. It would be great to see BeOS and Apple Hardware (but now intel based awesomeness) together again. I just recently bought (at an amazing price) the first GEN Apple TV to hack it and throw a minimal OS on it as a front end. Just waiting for it to arrive.
I'm bringing up this topic to see how feasible it is with using Haiku as the frontend on a Apple Tv box.
My (Unamed) project uses the Client/ server Architecture
Front-End
Platform(s): Haiku/Mac OS X/Linux
Custom python script with VLC for a nice simplistic interface that connects with my media database.
Back-End: Ubuntu Linux server
Uses Mysql, Apache
I Have a (Video only right now) MySQL Database the keeps detailed info (I can post the early version schema if needed) File info, Episode details , Banners, Screenshots,etc. that works with the file server..
*php (web interface planed down the line)
My questions are as follows:
1. Does the native Haiku boot loader support EFI or is Haiku Compatible with GRUB?
2. Are Haiku's Nvidia drivers optimized for video playback?
3. Can you get reliable Video playback from the VLC port in Hakiu
4. Lastly BEOS was always known for it's amazing audio backend, how does Haiku compare in this Alpha stage?
Thanks for reading and look forward to your comments.
