AW: AW: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-14 Thread martin
07 An: VDR Mailing List Betreff: Re: AW: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience. On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:55:20 +0200, you wrote: >On Thursday 14 September 2006 07:08, Emil Naepflein wrote: >> That doesn't matter. Important ist th

Re: AW: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-14 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:55:20 +0200, you wrote: >On Thursday 14 September 2006 07:08, Emil Naepflein wrote: >> That doesn't matter. Important ist that I have instant access. > >Keeping it online has the drawback that all parts fail at once when your house >gets hit by lightning/overvoltage...not s

Re: AW: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-13 Thread Guido Fiala
On Thursday 14 September 2006 07:08, Emil Naepflein wrote: > That doesn't matter. Important ist that I have instant access. Keeping it online has the drawback that all parts fail at once when your house gets hit by lightning/overvoltage...not sure how good USVs are at protecting hardware. _

Re: AW: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-13 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:31:56 +0200, you wrote: >So Carsten, you talk about archiving. Then you should definitely go for h264 >coding, with constant quality. >Why keep everything online? What is the aim of having terra bytes online? It >costs a lot of energy. I have a similar setup like Carsten (

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2006-09-13 Thread Rainer Zocholl
[EMAIL PROTECTED](Norbert Goebel) 13.09.06 18:21 >Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: >> >> Not excatly. >> >> I would call it "semy-online"-storage. >> >> Normaly the HDDs are switched off. >> But as they are connected to USB-Power-Switches they can be switched >> on/off automatically by the compute

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-13 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
Norbert Goebel wrote: > Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > >> >> Not excatly. >> >> I would call it "semy-online"-storage. >> >> Normaly the HDDs are switched off. >> But as they are connected to USB-Power-Switches they can be switched >> on/off automatically by the computer.(*) >> > > > Hi, >

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-13 Thread Norbert Goebel
Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: Not excatly. I would call it "semy-online"-storage. Normaly the HDDs are switched off. But as they are connected to USB-Power-Switches they can be switched on/off automatically by the computer.(*) Hi, I just got interested when I read USB-Power-Switches and

Re: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Rainer Zocholl
[EMAIL PROTECTED](Carsten Koch) 12.09.06 20:22 >Guido Fiala wrote: >... >> Sounds like the core computer of the USS-Enterprise - >> How many Terra-Quads are this? ;-) >Actually, according to >http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/ncc1701d.htm >the Enterprise D has a mere 630.000 Kiloquad

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Guido Fiala
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 20:22, Carsten Koch wrote: > Guido Fiala wrote: > ... > > > Sounds like the core computer of the USS-Enterprise - > > How many Terra-Quads are this? ;-) > > Actually, according to > http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/ncc1701d.htm > the Enterprise D has a mere

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
Carsten Koch wrote: > Neither is my VDR system even close to the largest one. > I believe that Matthias Schniedermeier has so many disks > in his house that the house no longer requires a separate > heating system. ;-) Not excatly. I would call it "semy-online"-storage. Normaly the HDDs are swi

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
Carsten Koch wrote: > martin wrote: > ... > >>go and get yourself a new hard disc :-) > > > Well, that option is of course always available. ;-) > Let's take a look at my vdr system: > > /video> df -hT > FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2 xfs147G 12G

AW: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread martin
space without cost or loss of convenience. Guido Fiala wrote: ... > Sounds like the core computer of the USS-Enterprise - How many > Terra-Quads are this? ;-) Actually, according to http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/ncc1701d.htm the Enterprise D has a mere 630.000 Kiloquads

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Carsten Koch
Carsten Koch wrote: ... > Actually, according to > http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/ncc1701d.htm > the Enterprise D has a mere 630.000 Kiloquads. Sorry, wrong link. I meant this one: http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/misc/artikel-computer.htm __

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Carsten Koch
Guido Fiala wrote: ... > Sounds like the core computer of the USS-Enterprise - > How many Terra-Quads are this? ;-) Actually, according to http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/ncc1701d.htm the Enterprise D has a mere 630.000 Kiloquads. But seriously: My VDR system started out in June 2000

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Guido Fiala
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 19:07, Carsten Koch wrote: > FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2 xfs147G 12G 136G 8% / > udev tmpfs253M 236K 252M 1% /dev > /dev/hdb1 xfs149G 86G 64G 58% /vdr2 > /dev/hdc1 xfs149G 115G

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Carsten Koch
martin wrote: ... > go and get yourself a new hard disc :-) Well, that option is of course always available. ;-) Let's take a look at my vdr system: /video> df -hT FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 xfs147G 12G 136G 8% / udev tmpfs253M 236

AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread martin
o within short time you have high defition TV with high compression. Cheers, Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Carsten Koch Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. September 2006 17:38 An: VDR Mailing List Betreff: [vdr] Doubling my available VD

[vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Carsten Koch
Most of my VDR movies are between 2 and 3 GB in size. I assume that there would be no noticeable loss of quality, if I would convert them to DivX movies of about half the size, maybe also removing any unwanted sound tracks. This could even be done automatically by a background process. However, t