Doctor in the TViX
On the 16th September last year, I bought a TViX 4100 Media Player to replace the PC under the TV.
It might have been a mistake. It's got the advantage of being purely solid state (pulling the content from the network), and not requiring a Media Player PC anywhere in the house. That might have been where the mistake was, since I promptly bought a Thecus 4100+ 4 drive disk unit, and set of one terrabyte disks to go into it. It turns out that this is supposed to be capable of being a Media Player server, so I didn't need the TViX, but could have bought something much cheaper (say, 70 quid).
But anyway. It is bought, and it works. Having spent a little time poking around when I got it, I located dvdbackup, the free Linux program for making a direct backup of DVD to a hard drive. So, since then, I've been steadily "backing up" my DVDs. Which, in some cases, is a distinctly good thing, because some of them are quite badly scratched.
I've now finished the task:
tommy@zenith:~$ df --si /mnt/video
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
thecus:/raid/Video 4.0T 2.6T 1.4T 66% /mnt/video
Cor. I've still got 1.4 terrabytes of space to go :)
I spent too much of the weekend watching Lost, old episodes of Lost for the continuity point, season 3 of the US version of the Office, and the first half of the original version of The Day The Earth Stood still.
But the pride of the collection is:
tommy@zenith:/mnt/video/DVD/Doctor Who$ ls
001 - An Unearthly Child 069 - The Green Death 102 - The Power of Kroll 139 - The Mark of the Rani
002 - The Daleks 070 - The Time Warrior 103 - The Armageddon Factor 140 - The Two Doctors
003 - The Edge of Destruction 075 - Robot 104 - Destiny of the Daleks 141 - Timelash
006 - The Aztecs 076 - The Ark in Space 105 - City of Death 142 - Revelation of the Daleks
010 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth 077 - The Sontaran Experiment 109 - The Leisure Hive 143 - Mysterious Planet
013 - The Web Planet 078 - Genesis of the Daleks 114 - The Keeper of Traken 144 - Trial of a Time Lord
017 - The Time Meddler 081 - Planet of Evil 115 - Logopolis 145 - Terror of the Vervoids
027 - The War Machines 082 - Pyramids of Mars 116 - Castrovalva 146 - The Ultimate Foe
037 - The Tomb of the Cybermen 084 - The Brain of Morbius 117 - Four to Doomsday 151 - Remembrance of the Daleks
045 - The Mind Robber 087 - The Hand of Fear 119 - The Visitation 155 - Battlefield
046 - The Invasion 090 - The Robots of Death 120 - Black Orchid 156 - Ghost Light
048 - The Seeds of Death 091 - The Talons of Weng-Chiang 121 - Earthshock 157 - The Curse of Fenric
051 - Spearhead from Space 092 - Horror of Fang Rock 122 - Time-Flight 158 - Survival
052 - The Silurians 093 - The Invisible Enemy 123 - Arc of Infinity Davros: Audio
054 - Inferno 097 - The Invasion of Time 129 - The Five Doctors Davros: Connections
057 - The Claws of Axos 098 - The Ribos Operation 130 - Warriors of the Deep K9 and Company
062 - The Sea Devils 099 - The Pirate Planet 133 - Resurrection of the Daleks Lost in Time
065 - The Three Doctors 100 - The Stones of Blood 135 - The Caves of Andozani
066 - Carnival of Monsters 101 - The Androids of Tara 138 - Vengeance on Varos
Yup, that's all the (classic) Doctor Who that's been released on DVD, nicely organised on my hard drive. And those collections which include out of sequence stories (the Davros box set, and Beneath the Surface, I'm looking at you). Oh. Damn. The E-space trilogy came out today. Oh well ;-)
Now I can box them all up, and recover the storage space. Not that I've got anywhere to put the box, at the moment...
It might have been a mistake. It's got the advantage of being purely solid state (pulling the content from the network), and not requiring a Media Player PC anywhere in the house. That might have been where the mistake was, since I promptly bought a Thecus 4100+ 4 drive disk unit, and set of one terrabyte disks to go into it. It turns out that this is supposed to be capable of being a Media Player server, so I didn't need the TViX, but could have bought something much cheaper (say, 70 quid).
But anyway. It is bought, and it works. Having spent a little time poking around when I got it, I located dvdbackup, the free Linux program for making a direct backup of DVD to a hard drive. So, since then, I've been steadily "backing up" my DVDs. Which, in some cases, is a distinctly good thing, because some of them are quite badly scratched.
I've now finished the task:
tommy@zenith:~$ df --si /mnt/video
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
thecus:/raid/Video 4.0T 2.6T 1.4T 66% /mnt/video
Cor. I've still got 1.4 terrabytes of space to go :)
I spent too much of the weekend watching Lost, old episodes of Lost for the continuity point, season 3 of the US version of the Office, and the first half of the original version of The Day The Earth Stood still.
But the pride of the collection is:
tommy@zenith:/mnt/video/DVD/Doctor Who$ ls
001 - An Unearthly Child 069 - The Green Death 102 - The Power of Kroll 139 - The Mark of the Rani
002 - The Daleks 070 - The Time Warrior 103 - The Armageddon Factor 140 - The Two Doctors
003 - The Edge of Destruction 075 - Robot 104 - Destiny of the Daleks 141 - Timelash
006 - The Aztecs 076 - The Ark in Space 105 - City of Death 142 - Revelation of the Daleks
010 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth 077 - The Sontaran Experiment 109 - The Leisure Hive 143 - Mysterious Planet
013 - The Web Planet 078 - Genesis of the Daleks 114 - The Keeper of Traken 144 - Trial of a Time Lord
017 - The Time Meddler 081 - Planet of Evil 115 - Logopolis 145 - Terror of the Vervoids
027 - The War Machines 082 - Pyramids of Mars 116 - Castrovalva 146 - The Ultimate Foe
037 - The Tomb of the Cybermen 084 - The Brain of Morbius 117 - Four to Doomsday 151 - Remembrance of the Daleks
045 - The Mind Robber 087 - The Hand of Fear 119 - The Visitation 155 - Battlefield
046 - The Invasion 090 - The Robots of Death 120 - Black Orchid 156 - Ghost Light
048 - The Seeds of Death 091 - The Talons of Weng-Chiang 121 - Earthshock 157 - The Curse of Fenric
051 - Spearhead from Space 092 - Horror of Fang Rock 122 - Time-Flight 158 - Survival
052 - The Silurians 093 - The Invisible Enemy 123 - Arc of Infinity Davros: Audio
054 - Inferno 097 - The Invasion of Time 129 - The Five Doctors Davros: Connections
057 - The Claws of Axos 098 - The Ribos Operation 130 - Warriors of the Deep K9 and Company
062 - The Sea Devils 099 - The Pirate Planet 133 - Resurrection of the Daleks Lost in Time
065 - The Three Doctors 100 - The Stones of Blood 135 - The Caves of Andozani
066 - Carnival of Monsters 101 - The Androids of Tara 138 - Vengeance on Varos
Yup, that's all the (classic) Doctor Who that's been released on DVD, nicely organised on my hard drive. And those collections which include out of sequence stories (the Davros box set, and Beneath the Surface, I'm looking at you). Oh. Damn. The E-space trilogy came out today. Oh well ;-)
Now I can box them all up, and recover the storage space. Not that I've got anywhere to put the box, at the moment...