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Alpha has the right idea. I store practically everything on my external hard drive. If you've got a PS3 or an Xbox 360, you can use PS3 Media Server ( http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/ ) on your regular computer instead of getting a dedicated media server. It does fantastic wired / wireless streaming, and it's easy to configure.Originally Posted by alpharomiyo
I have a egreat m34a. I used ps3 media server for a bit and works great considering the limitations of the ps3 not being designed as a nmt. I used to have a stack of rw's that I would put all the temp stuff on. Purchasing a media player has been one of the coolest additions in my home theater in the past few years. I may sound like I only use discs but 75% of the stuff I watch is on the nmt tank, it just gets deleted after I watch it.
Do you think mirroring a 1 tb internal to a 1 tb external is a good enough backup? I was thinking about raid but they only offer slightly more space than mirroring the drive. I'm trying to get by using 1tb of space for a small media server for simplicity. My to be watched folder already takes up 15% of the whole drive.
I have been playing around with the new handbrake using x264. Its quite impressive for sizing down tv shows without quality loss. I was able to take a 50 minute (sd) show from 1.8 gb down to about 800 mb with no visible quality loss. The only issue is that the encoding takes even longer than the playback time. This just ties back into the first thing that bugs me. If both my drives fail then the real loss is all the time spent encoding everything. If I don't encode then my only choice is to build a huge raid array. This is why I like to plop it on a disc and be done with it, that is if its worth holding onto.
What do people think is the best program to launch movies...I'm interested in J River Media Center 14...
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