Archive for January, 2009
A while back I found a good post (via FlashInsider) that detailed how to create a video sharing site, but when I went to look at it recently, it was replaced by a placeholder page written in German. Thanks to Google cache, here is a mirror of it, including comments. I’m not planning on hosting [...]
My hosting provider has the default limits for uploading files via PHP set pretty low (2MB). To get around that, they allow custom php.ini files, but they don’t tell you where to put them or what to put in them. Create a text file called “php.ini” and place it in the directory where the script [...]
I have a ton of archived TV shows recorded in Vista Media Center that I processed with DVRMSToolbox (i.e., removed commercials, converted to WMV, and copied over all of the metadata), but they didn’t fit in well in Sage’s “Videos” structure. After converting a few shows using SageMC, I realized that you can have pretty [...]
This took forever to find, but I was hoping XmlTextWriter would work in Windows Scripting Host (I thought I found an example), but I couldn’t get it to work. This is the only structured way I could find to create an XML document in WSH: http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/Windows-Scripting/Creating-an-XML-Document-in-WSH/ (OK – found the problem. XmlTextWriter is .NET only, [...]
I picked up a Blu-ray drive for the Sage server and a couple of BR discs. I don’t use the Sage server as a client – I have a HD-100 extender for viewing (with a HD-200 in the pipeline). Since I don’t have a stand-alone player, the only way to watch the movies I have [...]
Long Zheng posted a link on his blog to a Microsoft-produced retrospective of the last decade of Media Center versions (also posted by Brent at GeekTonic, which reminded me to write on this). It’s time for Microsoft to uncouple Media Center from the OS. I jumped ship from Vista Media Center almost 6 months ago, and [...]
I posted a method for converting SageTV files to iPod/iPhone compliant files a while back, but a number of the files weren’t converting properly. I also had problems with mencoder cutting commercials out of the files. So, I retooled the approach, and I am now getting 100% success, using the approach outlined below. NOTE: Several [...]
Blog about a relatively obscure fix for a consumer electronics device. Wait until a catastrophic bug requires everyone to utilize that fix, and Google sends ‘em your way. Ka-ching! Disclaimer: Results generally good for one day only…