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  1. #1876
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    Re: Chaintech 24, a Place to Hang Your Chips

    Quote Originally Posted by PaulDriver
    yeah, well, Cicadia are not the sound of a dead silence, they are louder then my lawn mower.
    I remember trying to get used to sleeping with a whole passle of them fellas going....wasn't easy!
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    Re: Chaintech 24, a Place to Hang Your Chips

    Hi, my name is Paul, and I have a problem.

    It's 12:41, I have a 5 A.M. call, I'm exhausted, but I refuse to sleep because I haven't watched this weeks Gilmore Girls yet, and I'm terrified that the CW won't pick Gilmore Girls up.

    I'm sick [sob] please help me [/sob]

    p.d.
    Never trust a programmer with a screwdriver, if he starts talking about sonic ones, RUN!!
    Run faster and further then you've ever run before!!

    It's too much work to update my specs in a sig, it's a 6 core budget build. If you must know, it's in my profile.

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    Re: Chaintech 24, a Place to Hang Your Chips

    Paul, where do you live? We'll send the men in the white suits ASAP!!!


    "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
    - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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    Re: Chaintech 24, a Place to Hang Your Chips

    Vegas
    Never trust a programmer with a screwdriver, if he starts talking about sonic ones, RUN!!
    Run faster and further then you've ever run before!!

    It's too much work to update my specs in a sig, it's a 6 core budget build. If you must know, it's in my profile.

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    Re: Chaintech 24, a Place to Hang Your Chips

    Quote Originally Posted by PaulDriver
    Vegas
    only one thing will save you, Folding@Home!!! You'll get addicted watching your cpu's crawl through WU's.
    Once you've watched girls on high definition TV, you won't be interested in the Gilmore Girls anymore Unfortunatly if you get addicted to Hi-Def, that's about 5 folders you can't buy!!


    "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
    - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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    Re: Chaintech 24, a Place to Hang Your Chips

    I have dual HDTV cards in my video machine, and another in my main box. That's why I have over 1.6 TB of storage now (each HD program can chew thru 8.5G of storage, I take the RAW 1080i ATSC TS files (8.5 GBish) and transcode them into 1080p ( 1920x1080 = 2.2GB) and 640x360 (350MB) mpeg4 xvids and delete the 1080i source material.

    After a week the 1080p xvids are purged (after being written to DVD), and the 640x360 xvids are purged at the start of a new season.

    This whole transcoding process is fairly automated with a bunch of scripts, the backup requires that I spend time feeding disks into a burner, but its scripted so I just keep stuffing disks in when a tray pops open.


    re: Gilmore Girls; It's not the girls, it's the dialog. I think they may have the most talented dialog writers to ever write for a TV show.

    It's like the hallway discussions in the west wing, only about nothing.

    verrry bizzare and addictive, kinda like pulp fiction.

    p.d.

    [edit] fixed the size of a .ts file, I was using the size of an evenings caputure (x4) [/edit]
    Last edited by PaulDriver; 04-30-2006 at 01:44 PM.
    Never trust a programmer with a screwdriver, if he starts talking about sonic ones, RUN!!
    Run faster and further then you've ever run before!!

    It's too much work to update my specs in a sig, it's a 6 core budget build. If you must know, it's in my profile.

  7. #1882
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    Re: Chaintech 24, a Place to Hang Your Chips

    Hey Anyone know where to get the SPDIF adapter for the VNF4s?
    Never trust a programmer with a screwdriver, if he starts talking about sonic ones, RUN!!
    Run faster and further then you've ever run before!!

    It's too much work to update my specs in a sig, it's a 6 core budget build. If you must know, it's in my profile.

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    Re: Chaintech 24, a Place to Hang Your Chips

    "Angels on the sideline, Puzzled and amused.
    Why did Father give these humans free will?
    Now they’re all confused."


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    Phenom 955 @ 3.6, Asrock 870, Gskill DDR3 1600, OCZ 700, Xigmatek, Samsung 830 240,Sapphire 7950, WIN 7


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    Re: Chaintech 24, a Place to Hang Your Chips

    verrry bizzare and addictive, kinda like pulp fiction.


    "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
    - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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    Re: Chaintech 24, a Place to Hang Your Chips

    Quote Originally Posted by undersea
    no, it plugs into a miniJack and gives you an optical output (I don't think coaxial is an option)

    p.d.
    Never trust a programmer with a screwdriver, if he starts talking about sonic ones, RUN!!
    Run faster and further then you've ever run before!!

    It's too much work to update my specs in a sig, it's a 6 core budget build. If you must know, it's in my profile.

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    Re: Chaintech 24, a Place to Hang Your Chips

    Have a horrid headache today, spent a chunk of it workin on a system with a 60MHZ refresh monitor.

    Under florescent lights just as a topper

    My eyes are bleeding, I know it.
    Never trust a programmer with a screwdriver, if he starts talking about sonic ones, RUN!!
    Run faster and further then you've ever run before!!

    It's too much work to update my specs in a sig, it's a 6 core budget build. If you must know, it's in my profile.

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    Re: Chaintech 24, a Place to Hang Your Chips

    Damn Skippy....I know that feeling. Sounda like a day in the Control Room where I spend 12 hrs at a time! Last month we finally got rid of several 21 CRT's and replaced with very nice NEC 20" LCD's. Still, staring at a screen that long is murder!

    I suggest several strong drinks (of your choice) and several hours of NASCAR...that's just me!
    Main Rig: EVGA 141-BL-E769-A1 LGA 1366 Intel X58 CLASSIFIED/WATERCOOLED ED. cooled by the Monster Water Cooling Setup
    HTPC One BIG Case Asus 8 CORE Monster
    ASUS: 5 * BIOSTAR: 1 * CHAINTECH: 1 * EVGA: 3 * GIGABYTE: 5 * SUPER MICRO: 1 *TYAN: 2
    180+ GHZ total power for PC Perspective Killer Frogs Rosetta @ Home Team as The Uncle B's!!




    Spoiler!

    I'm the Uncle your Aunt won't talk about. Go ahead and pull my finger!

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    Re: Chaintech 24, a Place to Hang Your Chips

    Ya know, I shoulda know better then to boast about my PVR/Media server setup.

    Saturday, I found out something happened to the archive process, and the 1080i xvids were not being move to the appropriate locations.

    I discovered this because my Friday program was unavailable (not that there was really anything on friday night, I think I only scheduled one show.) due to the backlog of files in the working drive. Fortunatly, the drive used for the .ts files was not filled and I was able to recover the program I recorded, and transcode it manualy (after moving the 1080i xvids where they belonged)

    I think I've fixed the race condition that I think was occuring. Guess I'll just have to wait and see if it messes up (took three months for this to appear).

    BTW, a one hour 1080i ATSC .ts (MPEG2 + AC3) file can be as large as 8.5 GB, that's about 34 GB for 4 hours of video (prime time), about 171 GB for 5 "streams" and about 1.19 Terrabytes for a week (although I can only record 3 streams at once, so my max is 102 GB and 718 GB)

    I hope you see why MPEG4 is needed.
    Never trust a programmer with a screwdriver, if he starts talking about sonic ones, RUN!!
    Run faster and further then you've ever run before!!

    It's too much work to update my specs in a sig, it's a 6 core budget build. If you must know, it's in my profile.

  14. #1889
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    Re: Chaintech 24, a Place to Hang Your Chips

    Yeah, or a big a$$ hard drive!!
    Main Rig: EVGA 141-BL-E769-A1 LGA 1366 Intel X58 CLASSIFIED/WATERCOOLED ED. cooled by the Monster Water Cooling Setup
    HTPC One BIG Case Asus 8 CORE Monster
    ASUS: 5 * BIOSTAR: 1 * CHAINTECH: 1 * EVGA: 3 * GIGABYTE: 5 * SUPER MICRO: 1 *TYAN: 2
    180+ GHZ total power for PC Perspective Killer Frogs Rosetta @ Home Team as The Uncle B's!!




    Spoiler!

    I'm the Uncle your Aunt won't talk about. Go ahead and pull my finger!

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    Re: Chaintech 24, a Place to Hang Your Chips

    I suggest several strong drinks (of your choice) and several hours of NASCAR...that's just me!
    Race cancelled soon, So tomorrow.


    "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
    - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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