Questions tagged [media]

Related to data being grouped on a physical or logical medium (a storage container).

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Android: Getting free space of an empty MediaStore storage/volume? [migrated]

I am trying to determine a free space of a MediaStore storage (an SD card - MediaStore.VOLUME_EXTERNAL_PRIMARY in my case). The following code works OK: Uri videoContentUri = MediaStore.Video.Media....
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Data Protector: When migrating StoreOnce, how to "scan" the media?

Being in the process to migrate the clients to a new cell (also changing the port from 5555 to 5565) I added a File Jukebox to the new cell, configure the repository files, and then scanned and ...
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How to make Web ISO work in Virtual Media on SuperMicro ipmi?

How does Virtual Media Web ISO work on SuperMicro ipmi? I am using SuperMicro sever. I want to be able to mount bootable ISO image to a server, launch long process there (disk formatting), and then ...
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windows server essentials media pack

I have a server 2012 r2 essential build that is already up that is set up on a workgroup. We cannot use a domain controller for this environment. I am wanting to install the media pack, can I do this ...
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Azure Media Services encode CCTV media

We are building a solution in Azure that will allow users to upload CCTV media content to our site. This media will then hopefully be encoded by Media Services but I have not found a solid list of ...
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Windows Server: Is it possible to run Certificate Authority while having Essentials experience installed?

I have a Windows Server 2012 machine running a certification authority, but also need the same server to run Windows Server Essentials Media Pack. This requires the Essentials Experience role to be ...
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Configure Windows Firewall Server 2008 to allow access by only selected IP addresses

I have a server running Windows Server 2008 and I need to configure the firewall if possible to only allow access from a few specified IP addresses, any other IP addresses will get rejected unless ...
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IIS ignoring mime-type settings and serving file as application/octet-stream

We added both handlers and mime-types for IIS in the web.config to tell the server how to handle the different types of audio and video files we are using on the site. IIS does not seem to be ...
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Red5 install on CentOS build.xml does not exist?

http://nocreativity.com/blog/how-to-install-red5-on-centos-5-the-complete-guide I have followed this tutorial for installing Red5 line by line however I have just got to compiling the Red5 code I get ...
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Creating Windows Installation Media or Facsimile

I have a Windows 2003 server 64-bit. It has a legitimate license, and is registered. I do not have the installation media that was used to install the server. I need to put IIS on the server. Is there ...
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Media deployment advice

We have applications that have a lot of static content (>60gb) which is updated frequently. It used to be we would manually rsync from vendors and between environments, and our code would rely on ...
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Intranet radio station over network

My company runs shopping centers around the country and from time to time we receive complaints regarding the music selection playing in the shops. I'd like to build a centralized music streaming ...
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HP dl170 g6 and LO100 (iLO) - Can't boot from virtual media

I'm trying to make an HP DL170 G6 server boot via the "virtual media" feature. The system doesn't even try to boot from the virtual media, it seems unable to see it! Here's the test we've been doing: ...
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Linux automated media files transcoding

I'm looking for software that would help to implement above described scenario. By automation i mean minimization of actions needed for that process. For example, it would be nice to run some daemon ...
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Can gigabit media converters affect performance?

We are looking to upgrade our network infrastructure. We have fiber between our IDFs and our MDF but have found fiber core switches to be significantly more expensive than copper. If we were to have a ...
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Can you use PHP with XMBC? [closed]

I want to create a web interface to control which file is being played by the media server...a and possibly store information about the current song on a db. Is this something I can do with XMBC/PHP ...
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Magento and Media Temple, playing nicely

I am trying to get the page load time as low as possible in my Magento store. I am using a Media Temple (dv) Extreme, which has 2GB of RAM. I have had APC setup along with Fooman Speedster plugin for ...
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High usage media server performance question + Backup solution

I have a fairly busy media related website which allows my users to stream / download large MP3 files (50-200Mb), at busy periods I have around 250+ concurrent streams / downloads. I have over 500GB ...
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How can MediaFire afford unlimited storage space and bandwidth? [closed]

How can MediaFire (and other online storage websites) afford to offer unlimited storage space, as well as unlimited bandwidth?
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Storing media files on a different server

I'm looking for a solution for a small/medium business. We have around 500 Gb of media files (jpg, tiff, psd, eps, fonts, indd, avi etc). They're now taking too much space on our file server and I ...
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How can I stream DIVX, etc. files from Windows Server 2003 Streaming Media Server?

Do I just need to install the codecs? Or is there a process for streaming custom encoded media?
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SQL Server Express backup/restore error: The Media Family on Device is Incorrectly Formed

Basically, I'm having this issue: http://www.sqlcoffee.com/Troubleshooting047.htm What I'm doing is running a script I found online (http://pastebin.com/3n0ZfybL) to do a full backup, then rar'ing up ...
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Is RAID 0 or JBOD better for home media server? [closed]

I have an external two-bay drive enclosure (the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro) connected to a Mac Mini (my home media server) over FireWire 800. I'm streaming media to other computers in the house over ...
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VLC Media Server

We are using VLC on ubuntu, and trying to set up a streaming media server. We have the http interface working fine from remote computers, and we can also see the video playing as text if we don't ...
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Networked Remotely-Managed Media Player

We're looking to replace our current in-store video distribution model, which involves the production of a DVD ISO and several people burning discs and shipping them out. Cost-benefit analysis shows ...
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Is there an advantage to using a subdomain over a virtual directory?

Here is my situtation: I have domainname.com pointing to a server that currently has one static IP address. The server is running Win2008 Std and is currently hosting our only application. The ...
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IP Webcam Streaming to website through a flash player

I have been working on setting up a website that aggregates webcams from several local businesses onto a single website. I would like to only require the businesses to need a webcam and not the ...
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Multiple user video jukebox for school-wide teaching usage

I work in a school. I want to build a video server that I can upload video to from DVDs, VHS tapes and other sources, and have teachers select and play to their classroom projectors. It would need to ...
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managing media for software downloaded/purchased over the web?

Is there any advice for managing software installations downloaded from the web - both free and purchased? Currently we have built up a folder share within which we set up folders for categories of ...
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How do I calculate the probability that a data storage device breaks?

There are lots of different storage media. To name a few: DVD's CD's Normal hard drives SSD hard drives USB flash sticks Let's say that I have saved some files to a certain media. How would I ...
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Are there any soultion to stream flv/f4v to Adobe Flash Media Server from files on a client machine?

Our customer is looking for a solution to stream flash video to Adobe Flash Media server from his client machine. I need something like Adobe Live Media Encoder, but the source needs to be a playlist ...
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Intranet music web application for an office media server?

My office is thinking of setting up a media server with speakers connected to it so that everyone in our office can queue up music via a web app. Right now we just pass around a speaker cable. I'd ...
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