The Media Project

A few months ago I started sketching out some programming, just laying out the layers of interaction, how things would work, and getting the ball rolling with a project to handle all my media from a remote location should I ever be out and about, and desire say a MP3, a DVD, a Image, etc. just a end-to-end solution for all of my media, last night, I started on it some, after a day of playing with ScreenCasts I am creating for customers - I felt like a little “me” time was needed.

I started on my Wiki I setup, mapped out some of the general things, listed the DVD’s first on the list, and actually did a dry run with Firefly (Disc Two, First Episode on the disc) - and I must say, it went swimmingly. Granted, the end result was a 100MB+ file, still, original audio track (not slimmed down) and original DVD resolution, it was not too shabby for a 45 minute episode, and played pretty dang smooth.

So now I have the basis for playing Flash Based Movies, there is some code to be had, a little PHP/MySQL since this Flash Player I am using has some functionality for that built in, I can start to map out and setup entire seasons/batches of videos in FLV, from my Stargate Collection, to My Name is Earl, and put them up in a secret location to utilize on the go - which leads to another issue “Bandwidth” - what to do, what to do. One option is actually rather cool, just got off the phone and I can get 10mp down / 2mb Up for $200~ a month, take out my normal cable modem bill and its not that bad, plus 5 static IP’s enough to do the friends server, etc. plus it’s cable, which is burstable/scalable, etc. So could be very good.

But thats my latest distraction, and it seems like it’ll be a good one, heck having to watch the FLV’s to make sure they are clean, it’s hard work! but life lately seems good - distractions are nice, but today it just seems one thing after another is going right, and I say PTL for that! Just got an order, just got a $500 check, just got a call on bandwidth - a good day thus far indeed, I am greatly blessed - so what am I going to do? Goto the bank, goto Target, and possibly Del Taco. Oh yeah. have a good Friday folks.