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MythTV: SSD recording - HDD storage
Does anyone know if it's possible to configure MythTV to store on a local SSD while recording, but on a HDD (alt. locally mounted network disk) after the recording has finished?
(I'm using MythTV ...
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Backing up my Bluray collection
This may not be the place to ask this question but I thought I would give it a shot. Is there a device that I can take the HDMI output from my bluray player to a device that will record full 1080p and ...
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Different Spotlight kMDItemKind metadata values for same file on different drives
I have run into an issue where I find the same video file to have different values for the kMDItemkind Spotlight metadata depending on the drive it resides on (same machine, of course), which makes ...
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Windows Media Centre Download For Windows Home Basic
How and from where can I download Windows Media Center for my laptop running Windows Home Basic as it does not come pre installed with it. Help in this regard, if no any alternatives you would like ...
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Conditional conversion of media
I have a collection of videos in various formats. While all of them play perfectly on my computer, it's a different matter when I put them on a stick to watch on my TV. I would like to convert them ...
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Fast DLNA sharing server
I'm using AllShare software for my Samsung TV. The problem is, my media library is very large, and after adding something, Allshare PC application needs to be updated. Updates goes very slow: ...
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Using a phone Bluetooth headpiece to listen to music from computer
I have a Bluetooth headset (Handsfree) HipStreet BT Lite, this supports phone audio but does not support media streaming. I downloaded an app for Android (BTmono) that changed this behavior and ...
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How to remove all known media in Virtualbox Media Manager?
I cannot remove any of my media in Virtualbox Media Manager since trying to do so remains in the has 1 child error as below screenshot.
When I try to uninstall then reinstall Virtualbox, the list ...
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Free DVD Burning Options but for DVD Players not data
I used to use ConvertXtoDVD which was simple and awesome got the job done. But are there any good free options that allow you to burn a DVD video to a DVD that can be played in a player?
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Media centre wireless drops
got a problem with my media centre setup, hoping someone can help!
Hardware:
dLink Boxee Box
1TB USB harddrive
Apple Airport
All my media is on the hdd and the Boxee Box is connected to the hdd ...
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Where can I download a large image collection? [closed]
I'm trying to find a large (1k-10k) set of free images. They can be of pretty much anything. I would rather not try and write a script to trawl the web for images; is there anywhere I can download a ...
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What is the best way to organise media sharing amongst multiple devices on a home network?
I have a home network consisting of the following devices:
Windows 2000 Server - for file sharing
Asus RT-N56U Router - supports USB external HDD
Synology DiskStation DS212j - NAS - ordered but ...
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Streaming media from linux server - low footprint is crucial
I recently pre-ordered the Raspberry Pi. http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs For those of you who don't know it, it's a machine with 256 mb ram and a 700 MHz processor for $35.
I plan to run linux on an ...
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In search of a media download library
I am looking for a piece of web-server-software.
This is my use-case:
There are multiple Events, each can be categrorized in exactly one category. Each event has one or more files (mostly audio ~ ...
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Pixelated video playback in VLC media player 2
I recently installed VLC media player 2 on my Lenovo G460 laptop running Windows XP SP3. During video full screen playback, the AVI video pixelated or just stopped playing. The audio, however, was ...
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Ways to have audio output without wires
I'm trying to find a way of using my home speakers/amp without actually having to connect them. There are two laptops that use them normally (so I don't like changing the connection all the time) and ...
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Windows Media Sharing not 'always' being detected by PS3
I'm having a weird problem with Windows Media Sharing on Windows 7 ..
I have the following hardware in my network:
PC 1 ---> My main PC ---> runs Windows 7 Ultimate x64
PC 2 ---> My backup PC ---> ...
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How to effectively share music, photos and video around the house?
I have a large external drive with all my media (video, photos, music, etc...) connected to a MacMini. The MacMini is running PS3 Media Server (essentially a DLNA server), which allows DLNA compliant ...
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mp4 files in Windows Media Center
I have Windows 7 box acting as my media server using Windows Media Center. Trying to change to using mp4 files but Windows Media Center does not see the files, and therefore I can't play them using my ...
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Record TV to cloud?
I'd like to make TV recordings that are directly stored in the cloud (e.g. use cloud storage as network drive). Basically I am currently facing 2 problems:
Filesize-limit of cloud providers. I would ...
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Where is lighttpd.conf? Mybook world 2 whitelight webserver
I'm attempting to get my Roku streaming box with a channel called Roksbox to stream content off my MyBook World 2 whitelight. I want a directory listing of a certain folder of a share, Media. It's ...
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Seeing part of a clip before it fully downloaded
Is there any way to see the part that been downloded of a clip (wmv, flv..etc) from any download site like mediafire.. I mean to see the clip before it fully downloaded.
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Any HTPC solution - hardware + software or just software - with good DVB-IPTV support
I get my TV-signals over IP to my home, but the software for the solution is really bad and has lots of issues with record functionality and no way of getting content of my network.
I've been looking ...
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What exactly distinguishes a “streaming” container format for audio/video data?
Some AV container formats (like MPEG-4 part 14 and Matroska) are supposed to be "streaming-ready" or "streaming file formats", while others like AVI are not. What does that actually mean?
Does that ...
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No sound in any media player
No media player has any sound. If I try to play any video file there is only video, and no sound. This happens with Windows Media Player and Media Player Classic. I have K Lite Codec Pack version 8 ...
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Best method to stream multimedia content from Linux to iPhone/iPod/iPad?
I recently set up a Linux server to play around with an host all my media. What is the best method to allow streaming of that content to an iPhone/iPod/iPad?
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I want to serve media across my LAN via HTTP with a nice interface
I've got a huge digital video library and a ton of devices I use to watch content. I want to be able to stream content from my library to my devices, and generally the easiest mechanism I've found is ...
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What is the fastest way to rip DVDs to my PC?
I have quite a slow PC with only 2GB of RAM, Intel Pentium Dual Core 2GHz, Windows 7. I'm using the latest version of handbrake to try and rip a 2 and a half hour DVD but it says it will take 11 ...
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Windows 7 Media Player not playing MP3 files from USB drive
I have Windows 7.
I plug in a USB stick containing MP3 files
I open Windows Media Player and select the drive letter of my USB stick, I then see all my music nicely grouped into artist and album ...
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Rosegarden don't work
I recently installed Rosegarden. When it had ran for the first time, it worked excellent. After, I had to restart my computer and when I ran it for the second time, something strange was occurred: ...
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How to automate the process of organizing audio files on Windows
My library is a mess and manually organizing it in Windows Explorer is painful.
I know MediaMonkey Gold provides tools to automatically organize your library folders, however are there any ...
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Media Encoder w\ Merge Files & SandyBridge Hardware Encoding Support
So i have a Z68 chipset that allows Quick Sync encoding on my i7 processor.
I want a media encoder that supports both Hardware encoding and allows me to "merge files".
My problem is Fraps breaks my ...
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Autoplay not working
The auto play on my DVD drives suddenly stopped working for some reason. Even with store-bought DVDs it does not work, although I can watch movies quite successfully if I run Windows Media Player and ...
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Windows: downloading of a wmv file (is it stream)?
Win7/x64.
I saw a website that containing a report.
http://www.dunatv.hu/gazdasag/varga_istvan_szerint_milliardok_hianyoznak.html
It is uses Windows Media Player plugin that I installed under ...
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Stream media to remote client (native desktop client, web, anything is fine)
There is a server (Intel Atom dual-core CPU with Windows XP installed on it). The 'server' got a huge bandwidth, which I could easily use to stream media to my home PC where I have a simple ADSL ...
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Update music files with track information in Windows Media Player [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Auto Music Tagging Software
Is there some way I can get WMP to retrieve track information from its internet sources and update tracks in my CD rips? I have several where ...
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Can I activate Windows XP Pro installed from Retail (or VL) media with OEM key?
I have Windows XP Professional OEM key on the sticker on the computer, but I don't have a OEM media to perform reinstall. I could obtain (it doesn't matter how) an installation ISO images from MSDN ...
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Ultimate low-footprint music player for Mac OSX?
My Mac at work has 2GB of RAM total, and I'm constantly using enough middleweight programs simultaneously that I wind up in Rainbow Circle Hell.
I've been using Songbird, but it frequently runs into ...
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What is naming convention for subtitle files?
I use VLC that automatically opens subtitles with same name as movie:
Movie: [Name].avi
Sutitles: [Name].srt
But i wonder how should i name subtitles if i have more than one.
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Corruption-resistant file system that works across Windows and OSX?
I'm planning to build an external RAID-based media drive, and I'd like to use it across both my Windows and OSX machines. exFAT works for both operating systems, but from what I've heard, it's much ...
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Do NAS extension bays over eSata slow down transfer speed
I am considering getting a NAS for home use (file hosting & media hosting (1080p) to ~ 3 devices simultaneously). I would like to set up 4 drives with RAID 0+1 and am wondering whether to buy a 4 ...
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Linux CLI tool or script library to query media files properties?
Does anyone know of a tool that would allow me to get the properties of any media file, in a parseable way? Something similar to what ImageMagick's "identify" does for images:
$ identify libre.jpg
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Windows Media Center won't Play MSN Video Player
My install of Windows Media Center won't play MSN Video Player videos. They appear in the main guide, but when I click on them, nothing happens.
If I look on the main menu, I don't have any icons for ...
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Windows Media Center crashes when viewing Pictures
My install of Windows Media Center crashes whenever I select 'Pictures' from the main menu. I see the pictures screen appear briefly before WMC crashes.
I'm running WMC on a Windows 7 64-bit machine ...
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How to play security cam records
I have a security video records on my computer. And try to play them, I almost tried all possible alternative players. The file extensions are exp and h264, some errors I have received could not ...
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VLC crashes while playing RMVB?
VLC Media Player 1.1.9 and also other versions, crash while playing RMVB video files and when ever i try to forward the video to some point. Other times the video gets stuck.Can anyone explain me the ...
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Sound Un Available For RMVB files?
Sound is unavailable for all RMVB files on Media Player Classic Build 1.5.2.3447
and after Installing K-Lite Media Codec Pack 750.
The Sound button greyed out , Rest all media formats work well and ...
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VLC media player can't play an internet radio stream, but firefox and Window Media Player can
I am trying to connect to this online radio station (it is in Thai) using VLC:
http://www2.mcot.net/radio/fm_1005.asx
For some reason, when I connect using Firefox or IE (IE just dumps me over to ...
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Is There IP Address File Resolver Plugin For Firefox And Chrome?
Let me explain. When i right click on image, i see its size and other properties, however i would also want to see on which host it is located. It would be nice to have such plugin for Firefox and ...
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disable 'play' key on media keyboard opening files in windows media player
Okay, this is admittedly a little obscure.
I have a standard Microsoft keyboard that includes 'media' keys - play/pause and volume adjust / mute. If Windows Media Player is open, pressing these keys ...
