Thom Paine wrote:
That's right (About the NFS), what format did you rip the DVD's in,
and what are you trying to play them back in? (Missing Codecs if in
AVI DivX/XviD format, missing DeCSS if you ripped to .iso?)
I ripped them in Perfect for now, but I'm sure the problem is that it
can't mount the file as it's stored on the MBE and not locally on the
frontend. They play no problem on the MBE. I'm sure most of the codecs
are available, and when I checked the /video/videos directory, it
ripped it as a .VOB. I just picked up another DVD for $6 at Walmart
and I tried ripping that on Excellent, to see the file size and
quality difference.
You can use folders, and if you enable the "Gallery View Browses
folders" (Or whatever it's titled, something similar to that), it'll
browse the files and folders in a proper manner as you'd expect.
That good, thanks.
You need to go into the "Video Manager", and from the menu for each
recording, go to "Search IMDB". This'll do it's best to get the info
and poster from IMDB. If that doesn't work, you can find the movie on
IMDB yourself, and enter the number (without the "tt", so "01234567"
for movie ID "tt01234567", find that ID in the URL) into the "Manually
get from IMDB" option.
Alright. I didn't experiment much with theis yet as the remote doesn't
want to work, but the MBE seems to run very well. It's stable and
sends recordings out to frontends with no problems.
If you want the best combination of redundancy and speed, use RAID
0+1. This will, however, only give you 600G of space, rather than the
900G RAID 5 gives you.
Raid 0+1 is two drives striped together (600G) and then mirrored on
the other two drives? Maybe I should get a cheap raid 5 card with 5 or
6 SATA ports on it for better performance?
I'd forget about RAID unless you simply *cannot* lose the data on the
drives or you are doing *true* hardware RAID since software RAID can be
a tricky proposition. I've gone back and forth with RAID and ended up
not using it. I back up my DVD rips to dual-layer DVDs (most rips are
Divx with AC3 tracks for space) which is cheap and does the job.
Anything else I can lose since it's just TV. Best part, I get to use
all the space I paid for rather than losing some to RAID.
Just my 2 cents.
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