Since getting my XBox 360 last Christmas, I’ve been looking at ways to get my media shifted around my flat. The thought of having a central store for all my movies and music and Alexs photos really appealed to me. So I spent some time investigating all the ways I could do this, and after several hours surfing the web, I took the plunge and caughed up the dough for a Icy Box NAS4220-IB Network Attached Storage Device.
Having now used it for a month, I couldn’t be happier! Find out why, after the jump…
It was a cold, dark, day in the office, and an eerie presence could be felt lingering in the air.
It was the ghost printers, hanging around on our Citrix servers, not disconnecting after the user sessions had long been terminated.
OK, so my novel writing skills leave a lot to to be desired. But having spent the last day trying to figure this out, I thought I might as well share it with the world.
For sometime now, I’ve noticed that pretty much all the video content I download (all legal of course) comes in a strange new format called .MKV. Well, to be more precise, MKV is a container, not format. It contains h264 video files and various different types of audio, commonly DTS.
MKV has loads of advantages from what I can tell, like multiple layers of audio, customisable subs and so on, but there is one massive downside to it. XBOX 360 hates it. But, all is not lost, with the help of a handy little app named XenonMKV.
