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March 29, 2020 2:57 am By Travis Leave a Comment

FFmpeg Batch Transcode Audio

Recently I have been dealing with transcoding media files for my private streaming site travisflix, and performing ad-hoc individual media conversions is no longer going to cut it. The site hosts approximately 7TB of media consisting of: 1,110 movies, 107+ TV series in ~450 seasons with 5,000+ episodes. Before you choose to batch transcode the audio for your entire library, the following will STDOUT anything not using the AAC codec: Find media not using AAC ```shell find . -mount -depth … [Read more...]

March 27, 2020 9:08 pm By Travis Leave a Comment

Windows Static Route Recovery

If you have messed up the routing table on a remote Windows Server, this network adapter recovery method may help you or inspire one even better. Since my particular issue happened over 5 years ago I'm honestly having a hard time remembering the exact scenario, but obviously there was a communication problem due to accidental static route deletion. The remote computer still needs to have layer 3 connectivity with your own client machine which might entail putting yourself in the same broadcast … [Read more...]

February 29, 2020 2:06 am By Travis Leave a Comment

VMware Inter-VM Transparent Page Sharing

Enable Inter-VM Transparent Page Sharing (v5.x - 6.7) If you're using VMWare ESXi in a non-production environment, such as a home lab, consider changing the advanced host setting `Mem. ShareForceSalting` to "0" in order to encourage likeliness of the hypervisor to increase the inter-VM page sharing pool. After doing so, the PSHARE on my host increased from about 3GB to 4.5GB with 3767MB savings (esxtop then press m). PMEM /MB: 32672 total: 1636 vmk,28639 other, 2397 free VMKMEM/MB: 32510 … [Read more...]

February 10, 2020 4:43 pm By Travis Leave a Comment

Best Free Public Usenet News Server for NZBGet

If you are looking for the best free public usenet news server in active operation then you are in luck. Recently I have been delving into the wonderful world of Usenet, and with that comes NZBGet and the like. You will need to register an account, but once you do it really is 100% free without the normal monthly billing. You do not need to enter a credit card. The best free Usenet news service that I could find is called XS Usenet. Once you've signed up, the news server hostname you will put … [Read more...]

October 26, 2019 3:31 pm By Travis 1 Comment

Bittorrent IP Blocklists

What is a Torrent IP Blocklist? A torrent IP blocklist is simply a giant database of IP addresses that you tell your torrent client (uTorrent, Vuze…) not to connect to. There many different blocklists, and IP’s tend to get included in a blocklist for a variety of reasons: Non-Residential IP address Schools/Universities Known torrent monitoring companies ‘Suspicious’ activity from an IP address The idea behind torrent blocklists is if you can create a list of all the ‘BAD’ IP … [Read more...]

June 7, 2019 3:44 pm By Travis Leave a Comment

FreeNAS Error Creating Pool

command '('gpart', 'create', '-s', 'gpt', '/dev/da8')' returned non-zero exit status 1. If you get this error while trying to create a pool in FreeNAS-11.2-U4.1 or wiping a disk, there seems to be an issue wiping the referenced hard disk (ie. /dev/da8). I don't have a root cause analysis at this time however `sysctl`shell is able to set a flag to ignore the error. I suspect it's either detecting bad sectors on the physical disk, or a rogue preexisting RAID config, and I have both. Deciding to … [Read more...]