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01-20-2015, 07:15 AM
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Dear Lord, Thank You.
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Re: Home Media Server
None of my streaming stuff supports mkv, but it does transcode well.
MakeMKV's website is down, but their shareware is still available at softpedia and cnet. Makemkv is great for making large files and lossless audio. The only problem is that if there are a lot of people on your server using your files, it'll load the network and cause streaming problems. Space is also an issue. I don't notice any difference between a 2gb mp4 and bigger files when I watch them, short of a full-blown bluray. I looked into handbrake a bit further and there's a .dll available out there that takes care of copy protection. From what I've read, folks generally use Makemkv to rip video, then use Handbrake to transcode. The two programs are made to work together, which is great. DVDfab rips and re-encodes on the fly, and it's one-button simple. If I didn't already have it I'd go with Makemkv and handbrake.
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01-20-2015, 07:43 AM
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Møøse bites can be nasty
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01-20-2015, 04:40 PM
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Re: Home Media Server
Do you guys run RAID 5 on your media storage?
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01-20-2015, 05:07 PM
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01-21-2015, 06:35 AM
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Dear Lord, Thank You.
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I set up 6 of them in a fake raid. I just backup drive F to G, H to J, etc. I used to raid everything, but it ate hdd's at a rate that was ridiculous for all the more duty I was putting on them. Raid 5 is gonna give you the equivalent of a write and two disk reads for every write. Basically thrice the duty on the platters. A simple backup is going to give you one extra write for as many reads as you want. Saves heat, platters, and replacing them. I've had one hdd die in this latest build, and that was within the first couple months. It was just a junk hdd. Were I running raid, this is about the time I'd be replacing them one at a time. Mind ya, I realize I have a chance of losing some media, albeit very small. I don't care about that, media can be replaced easy enough and it'd be nice to get rid of most anyways. My important stuff is backed up on 3 drives. I haven't lost anything since 2001. Knock on wood. 
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01-23-2015, 05:02 AM
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Dear Lord, Thank You.
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Re: Home Media Server
DVDfab was tangled up in some litigation, went offline, then came back up saying they'd only be serving the customers who had lifetime memberships.
Now I see it's business as usual. Just be aware of that, Chip. You may buy it and they'll be gone the next day. Copy protection changes constantly, so as time goes on it'd be useless for new titles if they shut down again. It's always been that way with all that type of software, it's nothing new. Just thought I'd mention it. I'd checked out DVDfab for so long that I ultimately bought it just because it worked so good.
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