SPU-Medialib has Cell/PS3 optimized programs to accelerate media related content

Looks like a project called spu-medialib has a collection of media library code optimized for the Cell processor. This should allow MythTV to make full use of the Cell SPU units (the power behind the PS3).

Link is http://wiki.ps2dev.org/ps3:spu-medialib

Reduce your memory footprint: IBM article

While reading "Geek Patrol" I ran across this relevant link titled "How to reduce your memory footprint" http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-memory.html.