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My data needs sorta naturally split in such a way that 4 drives can serve them. Also, it is easier to get 4 drives of approximately the same same size. I suppose if my data were different, I might be better served by a pair of 6 drive pools or 4 & 8 drive pools. In any case, 4 has worked for me...

Personally, I run TrueNAS Community Edition on some modestly priced Intel hardware. I have 12 hard drives in that box. Those 12 drives are organized into 3 ZFS pools of 4 drives each, each with single disk fault tolerance (this is conceptually like RAID 5 but is not actually RAID 5). One of those p...

After doing some more research it looks like a JBOD NAS would best suit me. It doesn't give any data redundancy - if one disk dies, all the data on that disk is lost. But the upshot is you're free to mix and match drive sizes and add more drives in future if you want. It seems better to me than RAID...

Well, I don't think I would trust some cheap chipset like this router to be managing my 20TB library which represents years of painstaking curation -- what if a capacitor went bad and I lost the whole thing? After doing some research just now it seems the NAS boxes have to format all the drives to a...

People like to use Plex for a couple of reasons. On the server side, Plex keeps a library of information about the movies and TV shows imported into Plex. If files are named correctly, Plex can download things like cover art and a synopsis and present them to clients that access the Plex server. On...

I have registered with Plex and I have a few movies a friend dowloaded installed on a NAS which runs Plex server, however I have only (as yet) ran it on my own network. My next plan is to copy some of my purchased BluRay discs and then stream them using Plex. I am still trying to get my head around...

Hi pneumatic for your response. It’s certainly something to consider. The reason for wanting to rip the DVD/BD discs as opposed to just watching them via a player is the convenience of watching them back on a Tablet or Laptop without needing a drive to play them on (for the Laptop). Do you know the...

A descriptive and meaningful name of each title is probably not stored anywhere on the disc. The only solution I could speculate on is whether you could get a unique identifier of the disc and cross-reference that to an online database where other people have already manually entered all the title n...

I am interested in ripping my DVD/Blu-ray collection The biggest limitation with doing this imo is the read speed. For a typical DVD drive you're looking at an average speed of anywhere from 6-12MB/sec which amounts to 10-25 minutes per dual layer DVD. If you are just doing single disc movies it's ...

I can rip them. Hey. Queers. Get out of here. :) Ripped! :lol: Funnily enough it was only recently that I realised the title is a play on words for "Queer as F**k". This whole time it never occurred to me, how embarrassing. :oops: Some of these older shows I think you have to view in the ...

Media players ideally should see that the mpeg2 stream is flagged as interlaced and perform deinterlacing. This includes built in TV media players and standalone set top boxes. However as you have found many will simply ignore the interlace flag and just display the frames "as is". My 2013...

All I can do is share the steps I go through when encountering trouble discs 1. Try cleaning the disc with isopropyl alcohol and dry thoroughly. One time this didn't work for me so I put the disc back in its case, came back a few days later and magically it reads. Inspect the disc surface under a LE...

Tried to look into AviSynth, but if I understood the wiki correct I can't edit .mkv files with it? (and hence it's name, I suppose) Avisynth can take your input mkv file, apply your desired video and audio processing to it, such as overlaying subtitles from an external subtitle file path, and then ...

Alright, after reading another thread on another forum I'm going to place my bet on what's happening here: the DVD in question has only been sped up by 4% from 24fps to 25fps, as is common practice, and OP is just noticing it on this particular DVD because he's very familiar with these actor's voice...

One of the reivewers on Amazon is saying it's only sped up by the usual 4%. Maybe that's what OP's noticing? But then why would OP not notice this on many other PAL DVDs which are often sped up from 24 to 25? I certainly notice it and always use AssumeFPS(24000,1001,sync_audio=true) for my PAL DVD's...