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Streaming 4K Blu-rays With a DECADE-OLD PC
Streaming 4K Blu-rays With a DECADE-OLD PC
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Are tehse drives big enough for a sizeable Bluray collection?
I owned an identical model about a year ago – beefed it up to 16 gigs ram and used it as a spare Hyper-V machine for odds and sodds until I sold it off to some who needed a better machine after a laptop breakdown. I'm at the same thought pattern as you with the limited processing fabrication. 2nd gen is quite old and struggles to keep with modern day computing demands.
Problem ist das auf z.b. auf einen Beamer jedes Bild vom pc extrem schlecht ist, Mac bietet immer ein besseres Bild
wish setting up dvd drive was easy in truenas never could get it to work
I did a very similar setup except I run makemkv and handbrake in an unraid windows VM!….cool video
Yes video encoding is very cpu intensive
Can you still flash a optical drive that was manufactured in 2023?
I get size limitations, but why would you encode a 4k files from 50-60mbps to 20-25mbps? your loosing half the quality, and at that point its probally better to store the uncompressed 1080p blu-ray at around 20-30gb vs the compressed 4K
Since you're files are going across multiple devices and being transcoded, fileflows or tdarr could be good solutions for you. Both support hardware encoding and work with workers that you can install on your home pcs to help. The server distributes the tasks to all workers.
The final renaming and importing could be made easier with sonarr and radarr that are normally used for torrenting but have watch folders and manual imports. They get the series info from IMDb and help to keep track what you've ripped in which quality and what is missing in your collection.
Okay, that's too weird. At 3:57 There's a random image of my city (Calgary) for less than a second, and I'm just here to watch an old computer running 4K UHD discs! @Hardware Haven If you see this, please, can you tell me what this video of Calgary is? 😃
I try so hard to watch your videos fully, but I end up getting sleepy. Your voice would be great as a monotone acoustic torture method.
Libre drive
Put some Nvidia LP 1050 and go Hardware.
I have Optiplex 9020 micro. I replaced the original 128 GB SSD with 750 GB HDD (horrible for speed, great for capacity) and added one more external USB HDD. Runs just Windows and Plex server. Low power consumption, streams 4K video. No complaints at all.
One of the most annoying videos on YouTube. There's just too much filler and unimportant information. Make up your mind about what you want to say. Your every other sentence sounds like, "I thought that I should finally have a shower after so many weeks, but decided that I could go a couple more months without one." You should have a shower every day, my man.
Thanks, I think I will try this. I have a lot of not so old used pc’s I need to find something to do with and this seems like a worthwhile project. Thanks.
aah u lost me with that dedicated quadro… just get a 4th gen+ cpu/igpu and use quicksync…
I think if you used Mkar to Vkat to transpose to alternate Vfiles that transducied to 4k using blah, blah, blah…
NAS+Apple TV 4k+Infuse Pro can’t be beat for simplicity and reliability.
Got my answer…the files size isn’t reasonable and its buffering by softwsre transcoding is ridiculous..thanks had to watch whole video to find out ota not worth jack TO MUCH WORK FOR SMALL YEILD. Even self supprted its to sliw and too may programs and work for nothing
So you cheated by using Windows, and a separate PC to do the encoding process post ripping?
… What is the point then? This isn't focused for the Optiplex and is more or less click bait in that respect. It's better to just ride the high seas and not bother with rips on a machine like that.
Swap Unraid for LibreElec with the Jellyfin add-on and that machine would have been better off as it's better for streaming, not ripping.
I rip all the contents from my UHD collections to my NAS, and stream them straight using an app called Infuse. This way I don’t have to recompress any files
I have optical drive separated from the main system, because the vibration it causes is too great and quite loud
Nothing helpful from this.
Thank for the vdo.
Blu ray dvd
Hey, what am i looking for in processor for a media server.. cant afford adding quadro or any other gfx card.
I've being using an old AMD PC @2010 for home movie storage, plug into router and it shows on five samrt TVs in our home, works really well and its tucked away out of sight.
I copy DVDs using the info found here "DVD Movie Copy To Hard Drive With Linux" on YouTube.
1:03 omg that is so smart i love it. im going to do this later
Ha, I just dug the mini tower version of this out of a corner and dismantled it. Thought about reviving it for some purpose but nah. 😊
DDR3 memory card is still better than DDR2 turn as NAS, like you can put 32GB as server
I use a Chuwi Larkbox Pro Mini PC as my media center. Running on Windows 11. Hooked up to my library on an external hard drive. Considering transferring to an ssd for faster loading time. Perfect tiny setup if you ask me. I could use a "bigger" mini pc but I really wanted something ultra small and simple.
Can you make e tutorial for sonarr Jacket radarr jellyfin
I like MakeMKV but I tend to use AnyDVDHD as it rips it natively ie not to mkv. I tend to use BDRebuilder to encode then. I flashed my asus drivre to enable 4k too with the mkv forums. Nice video!
You can actually fit (2) 4TB HDD = 8TB total in that dual caddy. I got (2) PS4 external HDD's and removed them from the case they are 15mm thick but both installed in the caddy no problem. Also I used a Lenovo M93p SFF system as I was able to upgrade it to an Intel Core i7 3770 3.4Ghz Quad Core CPU to handle the Handbrake stuff.
Waiting for the file on TPB lol
Danke!
I have an Asus external and mainly buy blu-rays as my drive as unpatched cannot read 4k UHD blu-rays. I usually rip the blu-rays as is and keep the large file sizes. I guess eventually if i run out of space i will have to look into transcoding as well. Also last i checked i think i am sol and my drive was not on the recommended list but maybe if i ever go to the makemkv forums i will find hope that it can be flashed lol. Not that i have many 4k uhd discs but having the capability is nice lol.
MakeMkv is amazing isnt it. I was blown away when i found out it exists.
Hi, Great video bought the same Blu-ray player you used in your video installed the same bios file also and it all worked perfectly thankyou very much ! I tried to do this a year ago and bricked two Blu-ray players both of which cost double the price of the player you use! its taken me a year to work up the courage to try again thank the lord I found your YouTube video! many thanks!
you look like Julian Lennon — and I'm not fan of him … just saying … anyways — your videos are great ….
a nie lepiej już użyć h266? zdecydowanie mniej miejsca zajmują wynikowe pliki
question, if I rip 4k UHD movies to a NAS pc with MKV- the pc nas will not perform any transcoding, simply hold the movie files – can I watch them without losing bitrate or UHD sound quality from a Nvidia Sheild Pro with PLEX on the Nvidia Shield PRO. ? Also does the NAS host pc have to have a good CPU and RAM to stream more than one 4k UHD movie at at time ?
Bruh just get a nvidia shield…
Great video. The i7-2600 or i7-2700k would have been a decent little upgrade to help speed some of that up. They're fairly cheap now.
It’s still a solid computer
After ripping Blu ray, does the disk still work?
I5 2400 is very capable, LGA775-hardware is more tricky (not even HD-ready)
I did something similar with a 4th gen Dell Optiplex mid tower. It's stock on the outside, but heavily modded on the inside. I drilled out the HDD cage to make room for a 1080ti hybrid, did the ATX PSU mod, and threw in a Magic Reform 4980hq that has the 128mb l4 eDRAM cache. It can be tweaked to near 4790k speeds while consuming about a third of the power
Storage is mounted in an adapter that I slung under the 5.25 bays. There's not a ton of room left, but it works. Emulates pretty much anything I throw at it, plays 4k movies fine. It's great little PC for when company is over
I don't get why you would re-encode Blu-rays and UHDs to another lossy format with handbrake just because files are big…… The whole reason of ripping Discs is to have the content 1:1 so you don't have to make sacrifices for the Picture and audio quality because otherwise you would be using streaming. That's the whole point of watching Blu-rays and UHDs, to be able to watch High Quality Encodes with high bitrates. Otherwise it would be like buying SACDs, DVD-Audio, BD-Pure Audio or CDs only to all rip them to OGG, MP3 or AAC, just because "thE fiLes ArE tOO bIG". Being able to play MKVs from your Blu-rays and UHDs is still giving you the multi-audio tracks and subtitle options too. Thankfully you don't have to flash every Optical drive as many support LibreDrive mode already, like the Pioneer BD-R XD07TS for example, if you prefer a USB solution. However you do safe more money if you go with a BD-ROM of course, if you do not plan to burn BDs yourself since Burners cost a bit more. And the great thing is if you use MakeMKV you can even use it as an adapter for VLC to directly playback Blu-rays so you don't even need to rip anything.