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Setting Up An NAS For The Home
November 27th, 2007An NAS refers to a network attached storage device. Something akin to giving extra hard drive space over a network, instead of having to add another hard drive locally to your computer. The release of Microsoft’s Windows Home Server takes the whole concept of NAS to the masses’ world of home computing. They give it a bright consumer glow, and TRY to make sure you only get it with the purchase of a new PC. However, the real issue is how NAS for the home has finally found a niche that portable storage devices have been unable to fulfill.
External hard drives and USB drives emphasize their portability. But no matter how much they’ll grow in capacity, that’s all they can do: provide portable data storage. They can’t stream media, provide restricted access to its contents, share data over a network using NFS, SMB, HTTP or FTP. This is where the NAS comes in.
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UNIX Scripts Bash Tips: transcoding converting video files
September 9th, 2007Being a media whore, I’ve amassed a large collection of video files. All easily viewable using the excellent MPlayer on Linux. The problem has been in making some of them viewable when stuck with Windows.
There is a lot of Windows software out there that can take care of this. Unfortunately, not all of it is compatible on really old hardware. Also, when doing my transcoding using software like VirtualDub, it may not be compatible. For example, Flash (FLV) and Real (RMVB) video files.
After reading the HOWTO Convert video files, I wrote a few bash scripts that use mencoder (of MPlayer) to resolve these problems.
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