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Mcgreag:

--- Quote from: Bob2004 on September 30, 2011, 08:40:44 PM --- (click to show/hide)What operating system do you have on your PC at home? If you're running Linux, or some other Unix variant, then Mediatomb is a great piece of software for streaming video over a network to other PCs. It just streams the whole file, then the client decodes and plays it itself, so it should work fine with whatever format you throw at it. The downside is there's no Windows version, and I can't think of any other equivalent software for Windows. You might be able to get it running in a virtual machine or something though perhaps.

As for the network speed, if it is actually 10Mb/s, then that should be plenty. But since it's ADSL, it might well be significantly less than that, depending on the line, distance from the exchange, etc, in which case it could potentially be problematic. The only way to know for sure is to test it and see.

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Windows 7 but I can setup a nix server if that turns out to be the best solution.
Doing a few local tests it seems 10mbit/s is not as plenty as it might seem. Even in shows with an avg bitrate of just 3-4 mbit/s there are peaks in high action scenes above 10mbit/s. Even on a perfect 10mbit/s connection there would be shuttering unless there are some caching involved (which it might be with video streaming but not with file streaming).

--- Quote from: ColdFission on September 30, 2011, 10:38:37 PM --- (click to show/hide)If you are on a Windows platform, maybe you can create your VPN connection and then you can share-out the folders from your home pc to the clubhouse. Would be faster if you were to share-out folders via a Homegroup with the VPN. You now don't have to depend on Hamachi servers to get your VPN. An alternative VPN service I've used successfully for RDPing is TeamViewer.

http://www.windows7hacker.com/index.php/2009/08/how-to-set-up-a-vpn-connection-in-windows-7/
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/4517-virtual-private-network-vpn-enable-incoming-vpn-connections.html

Furthermore, I think you can configure your home PC firewall to accept connections from the Internet (well, your club house) to gain access to your shares. So when you enter your home PC's IP address from your club house, it should prompt you for some user and password if your home PC is password protected (should be anyway). The settings in the firewall at home that should be checked off for Public use would be Homegroup (if you want to use Homegroup sharing) and Network Discovery. You can use VPNing with this as well. I haven't tested this before as I just thought of this while typing this xD. I was successful in RDPing from overseas to my home computer when I just entered my public IP for my cable modem and I was able to get in (with user and password of course), so if it works works with RDPing, it should with file shares.
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Sharing without doing anything extra except opening firewall is not possible as most all IPS including mine will block windows shares to the general internet as a security thing. I read that there are some built in way in windows to do it with the use of windows live ids but I haven't checked that yet.
Some other VPN solution than hamachi is what I am hoping will work. I'll take a look at TeamViewer.


--- Quote from: kitamesume on October 01, 2011, 04:04:01 AM --- (click to show/hide)1) if you're rich, buy MOAR HDDs! and make a mirror copy, leave the copy on the club and the original on you house.

2) if you're not so rich, get a good enough connection and stream through it, hopefully it doesn't stutter like hell.

3) if you cant afford most of the above, then buy a carrier bag and drag the HDDs! lol...

edit: yea the 10/1 should be enough for 720p so long as you dont go play 720p with nasty bitrates... i think it wouldn't be enough for 1080p with nasty bitrate and file size though, i mean 10GBs per 1hr 1080p.
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1. Will not solve my problem. I will need to carry the drives back and forth.
2. Not so easy as it might sound with multiple audio streams and softsubs etc. Converting the files in advance to a streamable format is not an option.
3. Is what I am doing now. I am trying to find some way to avoid it remember?

kitamesume:
what i meant:
1) duplicate the drives and leave a copy on the club and your house so that you wouldn't need to move any HDDs at all.

2) yea i'd agree streaming isn't easy as it looks like but thats the most possible option you have.

3) i left a "lol..." on the last line =P

edit, adding an option:
1) move your club into your house or vice versa.

2) get an online storage or something?

3) http://www.labnol.org/internet/access-computer-files-over-internet/13816/

4) (warning, most expensive) have a lan cable run from your house to your club and access it like a NAS.

5) screw the club.

vuzedome:
Get another drive for the club, everybody pitch in some $$ and get a nice 2TB external.

Bob2004:
Mediatomb is still the best option imo, if you're willing to mess around with Linux. But since you have Windows 7, you could also just use the built in VPN server to access shared folders remotely from the clubhouse, and download or stream your videos from there. Effective, and probably the simplest and cheapest option.

If you have a dynamic IP address at home, which you may well do, then it might get a little bit more complicated, but you can use something like dyndns to get round that without too much difficulty.

ColdFission:
I also want to add that if you do go all Internet access for your anime from you club house, I highly recommend you bring backups anyway because you never know when your Internet cuts out (I had mine cut out a few weeks ago due to copper vandals and was out for more than 24 hours), a computer malfunction, someone accidentally unplugging your machine/modem, etc.

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