A few days ago, I signed up for Netflix DVD service. The DVD catalog is much deeper than their streaming offers, that is why. I live in an area with a LARGE netflix distribution center across town and folks I spoke with over the years said they’d get DVDs the following day.
My expectations we...
It has been many months, so I figured an update could be helpful.
I ended up not following the original plan for media center deployment.
Here are the highlights:
Already had a KVM virtual server running on Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS x64
Created a virtual machine to hold Windows7 x32 ultimate thanks ...
Read an article over at LH earlier this week that convinced me to buy some more backup storage before the price hikes rippled through the external storage market like they already had for the internal HDD market. What? you ask? The price for internal drives has change from $65 to $129 for a slow 1....
Below is the 3rd of 6 questions from a reader. I definitely don’t have all the answers, but I’m not short on opinions. ;)
Previous articles:
Part 1 – LVM+JFS+RAID | Part 2 – Service Virtualization | Part 3 – Virtualizing Media Storage | Part 4 – Hosting Email
duijf asks:
Q3: I intent (si...
Bare with me here. This is a great technique. I think you’ll thank me later after doing what this article suggests.
Homes and businesses today have lots of network devices. Using DHCP is the easiest way to get those on the network, but if you ever want those different devices to talk to each o...
Sometimes you don’t need the best quality or performance from a device, you just need it to work good enough for a purpose. I wanted a cheap NAS for my home network that supported 2 USB connected storage devices. No high performance needed, just easy access to disks over the network. No RAID.
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So the HD-Nation video-cast (available online or on your TiVo) did a few episodes about what you can do with MKV containers for your media.
Episode 68-MKV Basics
Episode 69-User Feedback – MKV part is about 28 minutes in.
Below are a few other links about MKV Containers and a few shell scri...
Here’s a link to the Mega List of Set Top Media Playback Devices in google docs.
Many thanks to Tekzilla’s Veronica Belmont for starting this list and to the crowd for filling in the details. There is so much data inside that it cannot be copy/pasted from google-docs. File—Save As...
These days, there is a real desire to have videos on your network, but not loose any of the features that the source media provides. Things like multiple languages tracks, director’s comments and other interesting audio tracks. I like to listen to the Spanish soundtrack and have the Spanish sub...
The Matroska container format for video has become popular over the last few years because it merges a number of good ideas and let’s a single file contain multiple video, audio and subtitle streams. No longer do you have to keep multiple .vob/.mpg/.avi.mp4, and multiple .sub/.srt/.idx files t...
I received a WD TV Live, TVL, for Christmas to replace my aging MediaGate MG35 network media player. The MG35 is still working and has a nice GUI, but doesn’t support many of the newer media file formats like x264, mkv or high definition content. Also, the MG35 requires anonymous access via sam...
