Did you test the Offline Transcoding? I want to transcode the movies to be possible to wath with Chorecast. My idea is download as usual in BTorrent
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i use it only for backup, i have 2 drives, one in my brothers house and one in my house basement, both drives doing rsync between each other for off site backup to my brother house. I am running 2 physical servers, dl hp 380, i am running Proxmox virtualization platform allowing me to migrate form one ip to another, with backup there as well onto separate RAID in each dl 380. Solution works well... trascoding maybe intensive with cpu, cpu is not the best here, since it's not pc, i would advise to have some powerful dl 380 doing transcoding with fast speed rpm drives. I help customers build backup solutions, and weird things that they need build in technology my site networkconsultant.net i use it only for backup, i have 2 drives, one in my brothers house and one in my house basement, both drives doing rsync between each other for off site backup to my brother house. I am running 2 physical servers, dl hp 380, i am running Proxmox virtualization platform allowing me to migrate form one ip to another, with backup there as well onto separate RAID in each dl 380. Solution works well... trascoding maybe intensive with cpu, cpu is not the best here, since it's not pc, i would advise to have some powerful dl 380 doing transcoding with fast speed rpm drives. I help customers build... » Read More i use it only for backup, i have 2 drives, one in my brothers house and one in my house basement, both drives doing rsync between each other for off site backup to my brother house. I am running 2 physical servers, dl hp 380, i am running Proxmox virtualization platform allowing me to migrate form one ip to another, with backup there as well onto separate RAID in each dl 380. Solution works well... trascoding maybe intensive with cpu, cpu is not the best here, since it's not pc, i would advise to have some powerful dl 380 doing transcoding with fast speed rpm drives. I help customers build backup solutions, and weird things that they need build in technology my site networkconsultant.net « Show Less
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It is possible. Setting to transcoding some folder, and automatic transcoding start. But.. Transcoding is very slow.
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i use it only for backup, i have 2 drives, one in my brothers house and one in my house basement, both drives doing rsync between each other for off site backup to my brother house. I am running 2 physical servers, dl hp 380, i am running Proxmox virtualization platform allowing me to migrate form one ip to another, with backup there as well onto separate RAID in each dl 380. Solution works well... trascoding maybe intensive with cpu, cpu is not the best here, since it's not pc, i would advise to have some powerful dl 380 doing transcoding with fast speed rpm drives. I help customers build backup solutions, and weird things that they need build in technology my site networkconsultant.net
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That's interesting. I ALWAYS go to DVD before dubbing (I double-check my dubbing speed while there). I'll have to try it your way once and see what happens. Thanks for posting.
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It's impossible transcoding on the fly. But background transcoding with 240, 360, 480, 720, 1080 each folder set. And It have very poor performance
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Not out of the box, you would need a third party app and probably have to purchase a codec for mpeg2. I'm not sure which apps work the best.
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running ta similar system, are you having issues with movies or discs in general. Mine seems to be ok in general but I do have pixilation on some blu-ray movies. Pretty sure it's software though. sorry I couldn't be more help
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I just bought Planet Earth (Blu-Ray) and it plays great on my Aquos player and I haven't had to load any updates (yet). If you figure it out, let us know. Good luck.
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I am using Plex on it for 2 months now. Transcoding is not super fast, my old HTPC with AMD Hudson M1 is 3 times faster to transcode! When there is no transcoding it is very nice, I used to have my XBMC library shared on mysql on it and it was the same no lag on 100Mbps network. I switched to 1Gbps and I am only watching 1080p movies, some in 3D and from my HTPC running XBMC with the plex addon I have no issues at all. From my new Nexus 7 it is the same, it just takes time when I cast to my chromecast but I am not sure what is the issue, it takes 30s to load and then it is ok! Now the question is to know if you hesitate between a NAS or building your own NAS with a powerful CPU for transcoding! I believe in the NAS world this one is one of the fastest in its category for transcoding (but I might be wrong). Anyway it is a very good product I do not regret the money I spent on it! I also use Plex on my Samsung smart TV and it runs very well. FYI on my NAS I have sickbeard installed that download my series using Transmission and then move them to the proper folder, rename the file and Plex sees it and update its database! everything works fine!
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I simply renamed my xvid movie which usually has a .avi file extension to a .mpg file extension. Low and behold, the blu-ray player played it just fine with no conversion necessary. Surprise! (rolls eyes...)
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read up on HDCP, and see the top review below. This may not work because of DRM.
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Thank you for posting, of course. But I don't put a whole lot of stock in that transcript. Since the PS3 has Netflix Streaming using the BD-Live technology provided also on the S560, I tried using the PS3 Instant Streaming disc. It *almost* worked. Apparently, the S560 does not have a date/time setting, which is required by the Netflix DRM algorithm. After much testing, I believe that is the only stumbling block to getting Netflix Streaming to work on the S560.So, yes, the S560 as is does not support Netflix Streaming, but those of you who think it can't, may not realize how easy it would be to make it so. Thank you for posting, of course. But I don't put a whole lot of stock in that transcript. Since the PS3 has Netflix Streaming using the BD-Live technology provided also on the S560, I tried using the PS3 Instant Streaming disc. It *almost* worked. Apparently, the S560 does not have a date/time setting, which is required by the Netflix DRM algorithm. After much testing, I believe that is the only stumbling block to getting Netflix Streaming to work on the S560.So, yes, the S560 as is does not support Netflix Streaming, but those of you who think it can't, may not realize how... » Read More Thank you for posting, of course. But I don't put a whole lot of stock in that transcript. Since the PS3 has Netflix Streaming using the BD-Live technology provided also on the S560, I tried using the PS3 Instant Streaming disc. It *almost* worked. Apparently, the S560 does not have a date/time setting, which is required by the Netflix DRM algorithm. After much testing, I believe that is the only stumbling block to getting Netflix Streaming to work on the S560.So, yes, the S560 as is does not support Netflix Streaming, but those of you who think it can't, may not realize how easy it would be to make it so. « Show Less
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J Jacob- I've been trying to copy a tape to a dvd and can't get past the 'dubbing' on the menu.Thanks for the heads up
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yes, if you can find a program that will capture and stream it for it (it does the capturing part). FWIW, ffmpeg should be able to do it in about 3 months :)
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Couple questions:-Did the smaller files you converted play on the Latte?-What software are you using to do the conversions?-I know bluray movies come with digital versions, but I've not heard of this on DVD's. I have no idea if they copy-protected it from being reconverted somehow, wouldn't make any sense, but then again, most of the stuff they do doesn't make sense. It sounds like it's probably copy-protection, but I can't say for sure. Is the picture scrambled on the computer, before loading it onto the Latte?
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I download movies on-line and convert them to mpeg. if necessary. I then put them on flash drive\thump drive and play them through my blu-ray player. Only thing I miss is closed captioning.
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The software includes an app shop where you can install various media servers. If you install one of these, like Plex, then it will do transcoding on the box. I share directly off the server, so I had to code all my videos to .mp4 before I could stream to my client, this can be cumbersome. As for 1080p, you can share any resolution, themain factor that will affect this is your network throughput.
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I've had no problems streaming various media formats including h.264, avi, mpg2, and wmv to my LG TV and PS3. So I think the transcoding works fairly well. I don't subscribe to Plex Pass, so I can't report on how well it works there transcoding for other devices.
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Use the remote. It has 3d format button. I don't know much about torrentz. I guess if your download is not an official 3d (only in title of torrentz and not the movie itself) your not going to get the real 3d effect. Even with the TV converting it. The pic will still look nice and give some 3d depth. Hope this helps.