Re: [H] AnyDVD
I've found having digital copies of all my movies and TV shows on an HTPC invaluable with toddlers. My son can watch any Pixar movie or episode of Yo Gabba Gabba anywhere in the house as many times as he wants (subject to Mommy's TV time limits, of course). And we just got an iPad, and can stream everything to it wirelessly using Air Video. Super sweet. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Scoobydo swza...@yahoo.com wrote: I think there may be 2 kinds of collectors. Those who leave the seals in tact as a future investment hoping the price will climb over time and those of us who like to repeat watch movies. Having a 1000 plus movies on disk seems to qualify as a collection.. On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:13:47 -0500, Rick Glazier rickglaz...@gmail.com wrote: From: Anthony Q. Martin clipped Does nearly 1000 discs make me a collector? :) I don't really consider myself a collector, though. IF you have watched them all, you are just a saver... A collector would not break the seals on the cases... Rick Glazier -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
Re: [H] AnyDVD
My answer was too concrete. (And tongue in cheek.) Here is a second opinion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collecting Rick Glazier From: Scoobydo I think there may be 2 kinds of collectors. Those who leave the seals in tact as a future investment hoping the price will climb over time and those of us who like to repeat watch movies. Having a 1000 plus movies on disk seems to qualify as a collection.. From: Anthony Q. Martin clipped Does nearly 1000 discs make me a collector? :) I don't really consider myself a collector, though. Rick Glazier wrote: IF you have watched them all, you are just a saver... A collector would not break the seals on the cases... Rick Glazier
Re: [H] Pending conversion?
Eli, Pardon me for not responding sooner. You threw me a curve. What you ask me about, I have never even thought of. When I purchased, I chose to add a server to my LAN. Simple as that. History: My server came to me used with acceptable credentials, w/loaded OS, ready to 'play' with. It came to me with a fully installed RAID5 array. It has essentially the very same RAID5 array now, except that today I have 2 hot spares in place. I still consider this machine my local, in-home LAN server learning platform. Yes, it does do what I consider important functions; chiefly, it runs my ESET Enterprise Server/RAS/RAC/Mirror needs. Besides that, it is also my WINS server for my LAN. Probably a separate topic! It is NOT a domain controller (still under study). It came to me with a functional RAID system which I had never owned/built. I have learned much about the care and feeding of a commercial-grade (my belief) RAID system.. Thank you Collective! But, yes, it is a SCSI U160 system. Hence my Initial Pending Conversion. I conjured that I might be able possibly convert from SCSI to SATA without a lot of cost/grief. I am still looking at Bryan's shares and trying to comprehend the following discussion from yourself, Greg, Bryan, and Joshua. All of which I read and try to follow. Admit, much of which leaves me in the dust. No harm, no foul. Thanks folks. My bad, not yours! I could, perhaps, agree that I am playing with a piece of equipment I should never have come in contact with. Fine. Too late! LOL! Best, Duncan On 08/09/2010 23:39, Eli Allen wrote: I don't understand why you want a raid controller. Are you really doing anything that is disk i/o bound? or is it to keep from losing data? Would seem like almost any modern m/b with low end CPU would be faster and you can just use the built in raid to do a mirrored raid. On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:26 PM, DSincdx7...@bellsouth.net wrote: Bryan, I will print and parse your suggestions. Afraid I may be even more behind. The best I can offer are PCI-66 slots on an old Intel STL2 m/b (think this is ServerWerz chipset/design). Know this may be way past its' prime, but this beast just will not die. Yes, I may be trying to beat a horse that ain't quite dead yet. Still learning. I'll get back to you. Let me parse, absorb, and, think. There are a few times when Technology can just suck! Thanks, Duncan
Re: [H] AnyDVD
The reason I know how many disc i have is because I recently scanned them into DVDprofiler. I wanted to be sure I didn't buy something I already have. DVDProfiler has the mode where if you have a box set, then it counts each disc in the set. So, while I got 24 season 1, I don't think that is counted as one title. The same for the BattleStar Galactic set. One thing is for sure, I have a lot of discs! But I still dont' think I'm a real collector, as some of these people get all interesting in details I care nothing about. I like to repeat watch some movies way more frequently than others. But some movies are like new after 3 or 4 years of not having watched them. Isn't this whole Blu-ray 3D thing a scam (needed a 3D HDTV and a 3D Blu-ray player)? I can't see this catching on. But I wonder what others here think. On 8/11/2010 2:25 PM, Scoobydo wrote: I think there may be 2 kinds of collectors. Those who leave the seals in tact as a future investment hoping the price will climb over time and those of us who like to repeat watch movies. Having a 1000 plus movies on disk seems to qualify as a collection.. On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:13:47 -0500, Rick Glazier rickglaz...@gmail.com wrote: From: Anthony Q. Martin clipped Does nearly 1000 discs make me a collector? :) I don't really consider myself a collector, though. IF you have watched them all, you are just a saver... A collector would not break the seals on the cases... Rick Glazier No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3064 - Release Date: 08/11/10 02:34:00
Re: [H] DIY JOBD NAS/Mediaserver
That should be plenty for a media server, although I would probably put an intel gigabit nic since I have a few of those sitting. I have a ReadyNAS NV+ that streams to 3 rooms and holds network shares for each user also. My backup server for stuff I don't need as often is a cheap 2U rackmount system I picked up for $50 on ebay. I started with 2 gigs of ram and dropped to 1 after not noticing any difference. I've got a pentium-d cpu in it and 4 external removable sata bays. I'm running FreeNAS on it and also did some manual tweaking to get a quake3 server and a few other goodies running on it. I've done file transfers nonstop for up to 2 days (backing up movies/TV shows on the other server and used it at the same time for gaming and streaming just to see if I could lock it up. lopaka From: Joshua MacCraw maccr...@gmail.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wed, August 11, 2010 12:49:52 PM Subject: [H] DIY JOBD NAS/Mediaserver How much horsepower do you figure is needed to serve up a few (4 max likely) video streams of data? Looking at resurrecting my old A7N8X PC as a linux NAS/mediaserver to serve up media files (MKV, VOB, MP3, FLAC) over my wired network. It has the XP-M CPU overclocked (3200?), 1GB RAM, dual 100Mb Ethernet. It seems a shame to let it collect dust and NAS/media server solutions seem to be so expensive! I won't be doing transcoding but might want to be able to transmux for the PS3 which may or may not be aided by the ATI X850 in the box. There's only 2 SATA ports but I'm thinking I can easily get an inexpensive card, RAID or not, to support 3-6 drives I'll move over from my workstation. 2 services come to mind: SAMBA some DNLA server like PS3MediaServer, TVersity, or Myth. Assume I can run all that under Ubuntu or something with this low end hardware? Cheap 8 bay case, 350-500W PSU, RAID card, maybe 2GB DDR RAM still got to be way cheaper than a media server, no?
Re: [H] AnyDVD
The World still has decades to go before the hardware and software become mainstream and cheap enough for even low income earners to afford. First you have to have a viewing technology that has perceptible depth without glasses of any kind and then you have to have the majority of movies past and future in that format. Think back to the 1980's when Video cassette's came out and over the years the bulk of Hollywood movies became available to watch at home for the first time. DVD's were again simple to implement because optical technology has been around since 1982. Those were simple transitions by comparison as existing movies will have to be computer processed to add the missing resolution and depth of view that true 3D will require. All of this will be very costly and only the well heeled will be early adopters. Mind you, this technology does not yet exist for consumers to purchase despite trade show demos. Hollywood support is going to be long in coming. I could possibly live long enough to see it happen. Maybe.. On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:21:44 -0500, Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net wrote: The reason I know how many disc i have is because I recently scanned them into DVDprofiler. I wanted to be sure I didn't buy something I already have. DVDProfiler has the mode where if you have a box set, then it counts each disc in the set. So, while I got 24 season 1, I don't think that is counted as one title. The same for the BattleStar Galactic set. One thing is for sure, I have a lot of discs! But I still dont' think I'm a real collector, as some of these people get all interesting in details I care nothing about. I like to repeat watch some movies way more frequently than others. But some movies are like new after 3 or 4 years of not having watched them. Isn't this whole Blu-ray 3D thing a scam (needed a 3D HDTV and a 3D Blu-ray player)? I can't see this catching on. But I wonder what others here think. On 8/11/2010 2:25 PM, Scoobydo wrote: I think there may be 2 kinds of collectors. Those who leave the seals in tact as a future investment hoping the price will climb over time and those of us who like to repeat watch movies. Having a 1000 plus movies on disk seems to qualify as a collection.. On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:13:47 -0500, Rick Glazier rickglaz...@gmail.com wrote: From: Anthony Q. Martin clipped Does nearly 1000 discs make me a collector? :) I don't really consider myself a collector, though. IF you have watched them all, you are just a saver... A collector would not break the seals on the cases... Rick Glazier No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3064 - Release Date: 08/11/10 02:34:00 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
Re: [H] Pending conversion?
My feeling is I hate servers (just talking about the hardware) unless I really need one. For most home use I don't really see why you'd need one. The main reason I dislike them is they are very loud. But then there is: RAID arrays that they come with really aren't so useful. Are you really disk IO limited or need a really large amount of storage (greater then 2TB)? Does downtime really matter? A raid array with a large number of drives will make the drives dies faster from all the vibrations of that many drives (i.e. hot swaps add to this) Why do you care about hotswaps? Sure a business may not be able to handle being shut down but your home probably doesn't need to be up 24/7. What is the chance of a HDD failing? Not much. So a mirrored raid array of two 2TB drives should be good enough. If you're really paranoid then get a third to keep in a static bag to plug in after a HDD fails, not as a hot spare. There are off site backup services that you can use over the internet if you really want to keep from losing data. If you're all Windows at your house the WHS (Windows Home Server) may be worth taking a look at as its good at automatting backups and sending it offsite. Sure a real raid will be much faster and email alerts when a HDD fails can be nice but you'll spend alot more money on it and is that really your bottleneck? I'm assuming you don't have lots of money to spend on this stuff. If its just about learning IT then the software is much more useful to learn by doing and having (i.e. spending money on) Either the linux path which I'm guessing is cheaper or use the money saved from not getting a pricy raid array to get a technet subscription which would get you all the MS server software you could need: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.aspx On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:17 PM, DSinc dx7...@bellsouth.net wrote: Eli, Pardon me for not responding sooner. You threw me a curve. What you ask me about, I have never even thought of. When I purchased, I chose to add a server to my LAN. Simple as that. History: My server came to me used with acceptable credentials, w/loaded OS, ready to 'play' with. It came to me with a fully installed RAID5 array. It has essentially the very same RAID5 array now, except that today I have 2 hot spares in place. I still consider this machine my local, in-home LAN server learning platform. Yes, it does do what I consider important functions; chiefly, it runs my ESET Enterprise Server/RAS/RAC/Mirror needs. Besides that, it is also my WINS server for my LAN. Probably a separate topic! It is NOT a domain controller (still under study). It came to me with a functional RAID system which I had never owned/built. I have learned much about the care and feeding of a commercial-grade (my belief) RAID system.. Thank you Collective! But, yes, it is a SCSI U160 system. Hence my Initial Pending Conversion. I conjured that I might be able possibly convert from SCSI to SATA without a lot of cost/grief. I am still looking at Bryan's shares and trying to comprehend the following discussion from yourself, Greg, Bryan, and Joshua. All of which I read and try to follow. Admit, much of which leaves me in the dust. No harm, no foul. Thanks folks. My bad, not yours! I could, perhaps, agree that I am playing with a piece of equipment I should never have come in contact with. Fine. Too late! LOL! Best, Duncan On 08/09/2010 23:39, Eli Allen wrote: I don't understand why you want a raid controller. Are you really doing anything that is disk i/o bound? or is it to keep from losing data? Would seem like almost any modern m/b with low end CPU would be faster and you can just use the built in raid to do a mirrored raid. On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:26 PM, DSincdx7...@bellsouth.net wrote: Bryan, I will print and parse your suggestions. Afraid I may be even more behind. The best I can offer are PCI-66 slots on an old Intel STL2 m/b (think this is ServerWerz chipset/design). Know this may be way past its' prime, but this beast just will not die. Yes, I may be trying to beat a horse that ain't quite dead yet. Still learning. I'll get back to you. Let me parse, absorb, and, think. There are a few times when Technology can just suck! Thanks, Duncan
