Using MediaShrink
Using MediaShrink to encode and separate TV Show DVDs.
Transcoding. The bane of the HTPC users existence. In my write-up about why I use SageTV on my Windows Home Server box, I talked about how I like to avoid transcoding gymnastics. One of the reasons I chose SageTV is because I like my content to not have to go through a bunch of transcodes [...]
Frankenbuilders(home build or self build) have a lot of choices when it comes to Windows Home Server hardware. From tiny ITX cases with an octopus of USB/eSata drives hanging off of the back all the way up to a massive rackmount case holding a ton of drives, the flexibility of WHS can really be shown [...]
An occasional series to give brief write-ups on some of the different add-ins that make SageTV a uniquely powerful PVR. Have you ever set a football game to record on your PVR and hoped that it didn’t go into overtime or that the 1:00 game didn’t extend past 4:00 when your PVR was set to [...]
The promise of Windows Home Server is to centralize all of your media, files, and important things in your life. Through a huge library of add-ins and other programs, WHS has mostly come through on that promise to make all of your digital life centralized in one location. HTPC users have leveraged the power of [...]