Let's look at it again. Karl has a lot of video for entertainment. He
likes the idea of it all in one box. I have a lot of video distributed
across my network boxes of which none are complex or expensive, they are
just old reconditioned PC's from the office. All of my video is on USB
drives that sleep until called on. Everything is on power strips with
MOV's. I've had to repair the box connected to the TV twice now due to
failure to blow the dust out once in a while. I think I have the
cheapest best solution.
yep got 15Tb of movies goes up about 10 gig a week. each one on two
hard drives, so 30 Tb needed now.
I move 2000 miles every year. One box easier to take along.
Networking was easy with XP, can't make it work well with W7. Too many
security things. Never did get a movie to play over a network. For
the same reason, I shy away from RAID. Just not enough of a techy any
more.
I do see the downside of this approach. But it seems the best route to
me by taking appropriate steps.
I second that.
The only time I watch most of what I've recorded is to check it for
OTA noise before a rerun is scheduled, to see if I need a better copy.
The rest of the time those matched backup pairs of USB drives stay
safe in the box. The few things I like enough to play again, mainly
music performances clipped with the VLC player from PBS, Glee, DWTS
etc, are on a convenient portable drive as well. USB2 is fast enough
to play back 1080i HDTV.
This should be the Duck Dynasty daughter dancing as Princess Peach,
though it won't play on my old XP system.
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I've noticed that reruns may be trimmed shorter than the original
broadcast. With two backup copies playing side by side they stay
solidly in sync during the songs but the rerun drifts ahead of the
initial airing between them.
-jsw
Started playing on my old Ubuntu machine okay. I'll try watching the
whole thing later... Saved it and this is what one of my media
identifier programs had to say:
===
General
Complete name : /home/fnoel/WebFiles/ToRead/Super Mario Dance.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42
File size : 26.8 MiB
Duration : 5mn 4s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 739 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2014-11-29 06:24:42
Tagged date : UTC 2014-11-29 06:24:42
gsst : 0
gstd : 304088
gssd : B0AFCF2EDHH1426268377335069
gshh : r17---sn-vgqsen7e.googlevideo.com
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Baseline@L3.0
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 5mn 4s
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 1 218 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 360 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 30.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.093
Stream size : 23.2 MiB (87%)
Tagged date : UTC 2014-11-29 06:24:44
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 5mn 4s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 96.0 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 101 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 3.48 MiB (13%)
Title : IsoMedia File Produced by Google, 5-11-2011
Encoded date : UTC 2014-11-29 06:24:43
Tagged date : UTC 2014-11-29 06:24:44
===
It was available as a 720p HD video too (360 version details above).
My old computer has a hard time keeping up with 720p if at all...
I use dialup at first in the morning to refresh everything while I'm
eating breakfast and watching the news and don't mind the slowness.
Later I could play the start of it with Broadband2Go cellular but am
trying not to use up the 1 GB/month early with frivolities. I've
already burned up a lot on brake flaring tool videos.
I have that dance in 1080i from the original broadcast. I thought it
was very clever and it shows how surprisingly talented Sadie Robertson
is, though it didn't win her the prize.
This 1.6 GHz Pentium M is maxed out playing recorded TV. The 2.0 GHz
Core 2 Duo in the DVR laptop can record or play two 1080i programs
simultaneously.
-jsw
A thumb drive should be able to take all that that you have and play it on your touch screen phone anytime. If you have trouble, your phone's help desk should help you. I doubt you'd be charged minutes for any of it.
(though for best results, its always best to have your phone wired to a desktop wired to a server and then mainframe)
I think it's more likely to degrade to rolling blackouts as in the
Third World.
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We can't install new overhead transmission lines because they are
unsightly and decrease property values, or bury electric or gas lines
because blasting will harm wells.
We haven't had a terrorist take a shot at our grid yet. Just wait.
It's not going to be simple, and it will surely be a helluva lot worse
than a rolling black or brownout. Got PREP?
So the fix is: modular nuclear power! Or fusion, whenever.
They have a pipeline planned here in Oregon, too.
With the advent of the super ground-hungry tunnel boring machines, why
aren't they burying transmission lines and pipelines yet, I wonder?
With Keystone, I can't imagine how it could be a good thing to put all
that oil, under high pressure, directly -over- 60%(?) of the nation's
fresh water sources.
Larry Jaques fired this volley in
news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Putting them a few (or a few tens) of feet below the surface won't affect
that, and might make it harder to detect and fix any leaks.
Lloyd
The Canadian oil is going to be produced regardless of whether a pipeline
is built or not. If no pipeline is built it will be transported to Vancouv
er, Canada and shipped on Tankers from there. Shipping by rail car is more
dangerous and costly than shipping by pipeline.
If the keystone pipeline is built, some of the money will come to the U.S.
as fees for using the pipeline. And more of the money will come to the U.S
. as the refining will be done in the U.S. In addition the refined oil cou
ld be sent by pipeline to the East Coast. So even if the refined oil is sh
ipped over seas by tanker, it will mean that the costs of gasoline and heat
ing oil will be slightly less in the U.S.
Not building the Keystone Pipeline will not mean that the oil will not be u
sed and will not keep the CO2 out of the atmosphere.
Dan
I meant that crossing rivers with pipelines is simply a dumbass thing
to do, ever. Well, unless one doesn't care about humanity, and is
looking to pare the population down. (I don't doubt that about the
politicians of today.)
Glad to know I'm not the only one. I also like to watch how an actor
matures over the years. Like a Sean Connery with a bit part in Longest
day, or Harrison Ford small part in Apocalypse Now, many others. I
know I've watched every Clint Eastwood a dozen times, pretty much the
same with John Wayne. Many many others too.
I don't sleep at night, watch three movies a night most every day.
karl
After Leonard Nimoy died MeTV ran Mission Impossible, Twilight Zone,
Get Smart etc episodes he'd been in. I was more impressed with him as
Spock than any of the others, including recently as William Bell on
Fringe.
I talked to him backstage after his one-man stage play based on
Vincent Van Gogh's letters, which I'd read, and managed to discuss his
other work without ever mentioning Star Trek.
Somehow his presence in Boston hadn't been noticed by Trekkies, my GF
and I were his only visitors that day.
-jsw
Yeah, the preview of the hoarse scream under the waterfall (by Daniel
Day Lewis in Last of the Mohicans) nearly kept me from watching what
turned out to be a very good movie.
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