Thread: Video Server

A few weeks ago I set myself up with a nice ltitle video server. I was sick and tired of my f'n kids losing or destroying the DVD's/Blu-Rays I have so I figured it was time to transcode them and toss them on a hard drive to view from any of the rooms over the network. If you guys want to know how to do it, let me know. Been there, done that. Know what works, what doesn't. Just got done transcoding Jungle Book 1 (DVD), and National Lampoons Christmas Vacation (DVD). About to go into the boys' room and fire it up on their Roku to stream over my network back to my desktop. Simple design, and it works. I really think this will be the way of the future. Hit me up if you wanna know more.

Thats wild. How big of a hard drive are you using to store all these movies?

Originally Posted by KING Z28 HAWK

Thats wild. How big of a hard drive are you using to store all these movies?

Using a 2TB right now. Have just over 40 movies on it. Eventually will have multiple 2TB units in raid 5 so I get the performance and redundancy in case any of them fail, all I do ia replace the crap drive and continue on. Building a DVR server right now with 4 3TB drives in raid 5 that records 30 network surveillance cameras. 9TB of storage with the extra 3TB as parity. Can't beat it if you know what you're doing!

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Had Jungle book playing in the boys room while the wife and i just watched back to the future 1 (bluray transcended) in our bedroom on our roku over the network. Streamed close to 25Mbps average between the two streams going concurrently.

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Thats crazy cool right there. One day when I get some money I'll have you come to my house and hook up a system like that for me.