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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:roundyz@hotmail.ru">roundyz@hotmail.ru</a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">DragonMaster wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Totally agree with the non-gui stuff - I use it a good percentage of the
time, and it can be really quick to do. Of course sometimes it is
easier to 'point-and-click' as well.
As a result of this thread I've been looking into the freenas distro,
and it looks really cool - I'm going to set it up on a spare machine.
Has anyone else played much with it - I'm looking to 'host' a load of
.iso files of my dvds which a mac-mini will use through Home Theatre
(once I buy it of course...) and not sure if I need to do anything other
than simply dump the images onto a drive and export the drive via samba...
Cheers,
DM
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<pre wrap=""><!---->DM,
OT: Iso files tend to be huge, that seems like a huge waste of space. With
extra machines about and multicore processors, it would seem more
practical to store the movies compressed, at a high bitrate. DVD::Rip
uses transcode clustering; I can do a tv show in around 7 mins (1 pass:6
cores 3ghz each), so movies wouldn't take as long as you thought, unless
you have a shitload of them...
Regards,
Roundyz
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I'll certainly look into the transcoding - but as I only have slow
machines - 1.6G single core - and about 200 DVDs to process it may take
me a while... :-) I'm like Mo - I recycle old machines :lol:<br>
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