George L. Schmauch Jr.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

Kinect?  Really?  I’m highly interested in both Kinect and Move, but I’m waiting to see how the games shake out first.  While people who have tried Kinect are impressed with the technology, the games are pretty much on rails, which usually doesn’t make for a very good experience and leads to boredom rather quickly.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

Yep, I did know that EAX wasn’t an encoding format, but thanks for making sure.  What I wasn’t clear on was how those effects managed to get from game to speakers.  I knew I needed an EAX compatible sound card, so the game would recognize it, but that was it.

So, if I pick up an X-fi, do I need to purchase that $5 software package you linked to or will the “free” one on the X-fi download page be enough?

BTW… thanks for the assistance here!

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

Yep, I did know that EAX wasn’t an encoding format, but thanks for making sure.  What I wasn’t clear on was how those effects managed to get from game to speakers.  I knew I needed an EAX compatible sound card, so the game would recognize it, but that was it.

So, if I pick up an X-fi, do I need to purchase that $5 software package you linked to or will the “free” one on the X-fi download page be enough?

BTW… thanks for the assistance here!

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

From what I understood, they had quite a lot of material to pull from and cobble together some good stories.  I imagine they have a plan for a much longer series, if the network allows.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

From what I understood, they had quite a lot of material to pull from and cobble together some good stories.  I imagine they have a plan for a much longer series, if the network allows.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”nwboater”]
Thanks for the info on Comskip. Does sound like I’ll be able to share between the server and client. It may take a bit of learning and set up for me. I’m going to wait for a couple of things before I get involved with it though. 1. The new Client built and running smoothly with me learning Windows 7.  2. SageTV 7 to be out of Beta. Two may very well happen before One does!
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FWIW, it took me all of about a week to figure out Windows 7 and that was coming directly from XP, with only about 5 minutes of experience in Vista.  One tip I learned through many OS installs:  Once you have Windows 7 installed and before you install any other programs, get it configured how you want and then create a backup image of the OS.  Then, install SageTV, get that configured how you want and create a 2nd backup image of the OS.  This will give you 2 pristine images to fall back to at any point in your future “fixing”.

SageTV will be out of beta very soon.  Even if it’s not out of beta when you’re ready, start with whatever the latest beta is.  I’ve gone from 18 to 23 without a single issue.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”nwboater”]
Thanks for the info on Comskip. Does sound like I’ll be able to share between the server and client. It may take a bit of learning and set up for me. I’m going to wait for a couple of things before I get involved with it though. 1. The new Client built and running smoothly with me learning Windows 7.  2. SageTV 7 to be out of Beta. Two may very well happen before One does!
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FWIW, it took me all of about a week to figure out Windows 7 and that was coming directly from XP, with only about 5 minutes of experience in Vista.  One tip I learned through many OS installs:  Once you have Windows 7 installed and before you install any other programs, get it configured how you want and then create a backup image of the OS.  Then, install SageTV, get that configured how you want and create a 2nd backup image of the OS.  This will give you 2 pristine images to fall back to at any point in your future “fixing”.

SageTV will be out of beta very soon.  Even if it’s not out of beta when you’re ready, start with whatever the latest beta is.  I’ve gone from 18 to 23 without a single issue.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”Naylia”]
This makes sense to me if you are recording on multiple pcs and then each pc does it’s own comskipping with available resources of the shows it recorded, but I wonder how this would impact network bandwidth if you run comskip over the network. Especially if you already have clients and/or network tuners using some of it. I guess you could schedule it for only late night hours and then the network bandwidth wouldn’tt be an issue.
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I’ve run 1 comskip instance on my client PC (E6600), while 3 were running on the server (all recordings are on the server) and watching a recording was not impacted at all over the Gb network.  Perhaps my CPU wasn’t processing the recording quickly enough to impact the network?

If they were all hitting the same drive, then I could see a potential issue.  I never checked if that scenario ever happened.  But, network bandwidth never seemed to be an issue.  Also, for playback, I always made sure that I had one free core on both the server and the client.

BTW, I did all this via Sage Job Queue.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”Naylia”]
This makes sense to me if you are recording on multiple pcs and then each pc does it’s own comskipping with available resources of the shows it recorded, but I wonder how this would impact network bandwidth if you run comskip over the network. Especially if you already have clients and/or network tuners using some of it. I guess you could schedule it for only late night hours and then the network bandwidth wouldn’tt be an issue.
[/quote]

I’ve run 1 comskip instance on my client PC (E6600), while 3 were running on the server (all recordings are on the server) and watching a recording was not impacted at all over the Gb network.  Perhaps my CPU wasn’t processing the recording quickly enough to impact the network?

If they were all hitting the same drive, then I could see a potential issue.  I never checked if that scenario ever happened.  But, network bandwidth never seemed to be an issue.  Also, for playback, I always made sure that I had one free core on both the server and the client.

BTW, I did all this via Sage Job Queue.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

Comskip is single-threaded, which means that a Comskip will only run for a single recording, using a single core, at any time.  If you have 2 cores, you can run two instances of Comskip, which would then run on two separate recordings at the same time.

You could have Comskip running on multiple computers, as well, which is what they were probably referring to.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

Comskip is single-threaded, which means that a Comskip will only run for a single recording, using a single core, at any time.  If you have 2 cores, you can run two instances of Comskip, which would then run on two separate recordings at the same time.

You could have Comskip running on multiple computers, as well, which is what they were probably referring to.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”robinhoody”]
aww I wish I could go, i was just thinking to myself last week that it would be cool to have a missing remote meet up some where.  Come to Cincinnati! 😛
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Oh God, no!!!  (Sorry, no offense intended.  😉 )  Our corporate HQ is there.  I’ve spent far too much time in Ohio and, I’m sorry to say, there isn’t much to do in that area.  Plus, the wife would kill me if I said I was going out there… again… for something besides work.  Now, Cedar Point, on the other hand, would be a great place to visit once again!

I think the NY area would be a great location, though.  That’s usually an easy sell to anyone who hasn’t been there before or if it’s been a while since their last visit.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”robinhoody”]
aww I wish I could go, i was just thinking to myself last week that it would be cool to have a missing remote meet up some where.  Come to Cincinnati! 😛
[/quote]

Oh God, no!!!  (Sorry, no offense intended.  😉 )  Our corporate HQ is there.  I’ve spent far too much time in Ohio and, I’m sorry to say, there isn’t much to do in that area.  Plus, the wife would kill me if I said I was going out there… again… for something besides work.  Now, Cedar Point, on the other hand, would be a great place to visit once again!

I think the NY area would be a great location, though.  That’s usually an easy sell to anyone who hasn’t been there before or if it’s been a while since their last visit.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

I can’t exactly argue that, Mikinho.  I will say that the sex seemed more than a little gratuitous, but I’m no historian, so maybe that was an accurate portrayal, just as they were going for.  I also thought the gore was a bit over the top, but I even wrote that off to accuracy and quickly learned to deal with it because the story was so compelling.

Considering how well the casting crew did with season one, I’m going to give them some well-deserved respect and trust that they will do another fine job in casting the lead character again.  That said, I would hope that if Andy is well enough to return at some point in the future, that they’ll give him back the role he created.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

I can’t exactly argue that, Mikinho.  I will say that the sex seemed more than a little gratuitous, but I’m no historian, so maybe that was an accurate portrayal, just as they were going for.  I also thought the gore was a bit over the top, but I even wrote that off to accuracy and quickly learned to deal with it because the story was so compelling.

Considering how well the casting crew did with season one, I’m going to give them some well-deserved respect and trust that they will do another fine job in casting the lead character again.  That said, I would hope that if Andy is well enough to return at some point in the future, that they’ll give him back the role he created.

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